Think about different factors of your life that you think you can’t live without then think about factors that you really can’t live without; these factors would be your Abiotic and Biotic factors. Abiotic and Biotic factors play a major role in where species live in what different types of ecosystems. Abiotic factors are essentially non-living components that affect the living organisms of the freshwater community (Biotic and Abiotic Factors). For example the temperature, soil, surroundings, etc. The Abiotic Factor determines wither or not a certain organism can live in a particular ecosystem, this is also known as the tolerance range (Biotic and Abiotic Factors). Some different Abiotic factors that affect Coral Reefs are water temperature, salinity and PH of water, depth, amount of sunlight, and oxygen levels (Biology). If the Abiotic factors of a certain area are not the way the Coral Reef likes then they will not grow in that area. Since human kind is polluting the ocean, atmosphere, and land; many of these Abiotic factors are less and less tolerated.
Biotic factors are created by a living thing or any living component within an environment in which the action of the organism affects the life of another organism (Biotic and Abiotic Factors). An example of this would be an organism migrating from its original ecosystem to another that provides more food supply. Some Biotic factors that would affect a Coral Reef would be Density of zooplankton and living coral polyps, and population of living organisms in the water (Biology). Without these biotic factors the coral reef would not properly populate that area and would be forced to migrate to another area.
Over all if Biotic and Abiotic factors are contaminated then there will be either mass extinction or mass repopulation. These factors are basically living conditions that you are vital to your health. In nature if there is not enough food or shelter for and organism the organism will die or migrate. This is important because the human race is polluting different ecosystems causing extinction, and if coral reefs went extinct then it would affect other sea life.
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