Look up biotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals...

environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy...

Biotic potential is described by the unrestricted growth of populations resulting in the maximum growth of that population.   Biotic potential is the highest...

Biotic material or biological derived material is any material that originates from living organisms. Most such materials contain carbon and are capable...

Biotic homogenization is the process by which two or more spatially distributed ecological communities become increasingly similar over time. This process...

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria. It is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial...

Biotic interchange is the process by which species from one biota invade another biota, usually due to the disappearance of a previously impassable barrier...

The biotic pump is a theoretical concept that shows how forests create and control winds coming up from the ocean and in doing so bring water to the forests...

Biotic ethics (also called life-centered ethics) is a branch of ethics that values not only species and biospheres, but life itself. On this basis, biotic...

benefit themselves. This debate created two different classifications for biotic interactions, one based on the time (long-term and short-term interactions)...

A biotic index is a scale for showing the quality of an environment by indicating the types and abundances of organisms present in a representative sample...

A biocenosis (UK English, biocoenosis, also biocenose, biocoenose, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, life assemblage), coined...

Biotic stress is stress that occurs as a result of damage done to an organism by other living organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, beneficial...

Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth...

gametophyte and fertilisation takes place. Pollination may be biotic or abiotic. Biotic pollination relies on living pollinators to move the pollen from...

The life zone concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 as a means of describing areas with similar plant and animal communities. Merriam observed...

The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of activists famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco...

The Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) is a tool used in aquatic toxicology that examines the bioavailability of metals in the aquatic environment and the affinity...

A bioevent or bio-event (a shortening of 'biotic event' or 'biological event') is an event recognised in a sequence of sedimentary rocks, where there is...

environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms. Abiotic factors include ambient temperature...

The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange...

The Hilsenhoff Biotic Index (HBI) is a quantitative method of evaluating the abundance of arthropod fauna in stream ecosystems as a measurement of estimating...

Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi. It is generally assumed to be a natural process, which...

Probiotics are live microorganisms promoted with claims that they provide health benefits when consumed, generally by improving or restoring the gut microbiota...

methylsulphide, constituents of hydrothermal fluid, indicates that pre-biotic syntheses occurred at the inner surfaces of these metal-sulphide-walled...

idealistic and spiritualist explanations. Instead he developed a theory of "biotic energy" which he discussed in his books The Origin and Nature of Life (1913)...

determined by the interaction of a plant's genome with its physical and biotic environment. Factors of the physical or abiotic environment include temperature...

Gilfillan Biotic Area is a protected wetland area in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Gilfillan Biotic Area may be named for Episcopal missionary and linguist...

course also supports a synchronous occurrence of the terrestrial and marine biotic collapses. Other scientists believe the terrestrial mass extinction began...

Forest pathology is the research of both biotic and abiotic maladies affecting the health of a forest ecosystem, primarily fungal pathogens and their insect...