Abiotic factors have profound impacts on the variety and abundance of life in an ecosystem, whether in water or on land. But it works both ways: Biotic factors can also alter abiotic factors.

So, what are an organization’s biotic and abiotic elements? Its stakeholders are certainly biotic, and the functions and applications utilized therein are obviously abiotic.

The competition for niches is shaped by species’ interactions with the environment, which includes both abiotic elements (climate, water, soil, and such) and biotic elements (in other words ...