BioConcepts

biotic factorsbiotische Faktoren (ger.)

• (Ecological) factors relating to living beings.
  category biology see also abiotic factors biotic

  1901

  Biotic Factors. Two plants cannot occupy the same soil at the same time. The struggle for a foothold in the soil may take place between species of the same kind or of different kinds.

  Whitford, H.N. (1901). The genetic development of the forests of northern Michigan; a study in physiographic ecology. Bot. Gaz. 31, 289-325: 293.

  1905

  No habitat escapes the influence of biotic factors, however, as the formation always reacts upon it, and the influence of animals is usually felt in some measure.

  Clements, F. (1905). Research Methods in Ecology: 19; cf. id. (1907). Plant Physiology and Ecology: 5.

  1982

  biotic factors Environmental factors resulting from the activities of living organisms; cf. abiotic factors. 

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 34.