As grasslands get abandoned, controlled burning is discussed as a labor-saving method of keeping forests at bay. A Kobe University research team found that this method results in higher biodiversity ...

It also considers their impacts on biotic ... how grassland responds to global changes, particularly, to changed rainfall patterns and their interactions with other global change factors (GCF ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Biotic factors refer to all the living components of an ecosystem. Living organisms are often divided into categories such as producers, consumers and decomposers. A bee pollinating a flower is an ...