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Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals and plants. Biotic may refer to: . Life, the condition of living organisms
This stream operating together with its environment can be thought of as forming a river ecosystem. River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts.
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 and harmful insects, weeds, and cultivated or native plants. [1]
The Gaia hypothesis (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ. ə /), also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
It has a dense crown growing up to 5-30 meters tall. The plant's bole can be 10-90 cm in diameter and has small buttresses. Baccaurea polyneura grows to a mid-canopy of primary, secondary and swamp rain forests at elevations from 20 to 600 meters. [3]