Biology GCSE
biotic factors
What biotic factors means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Living influences on a community, such as the availability of food, new predators arriving, new pathogens, or one species outcompeting another.
Living variables involving biological interactions between coexisting organisms, including food, predators, competitors and pathogens.
Topics that use biotic factors
- Biotic factors (AQA GCSE)
- Ecosystems (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- abiotic and biotic components
- abiotic factors
- aerobic and anaerobic decomposition
- carbon cycle
- carrying capacity
- Cellular respiration
- community distribution
- competition
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