Sentence examples for abiotic component from inspiring English sources

The growth of A. arenaria seedlings was clearly more affected by the biotic than by the abiotic component of the soil they were planted in.

Our results therefore suggest that the biotic soil component is more important than the abiotic component in affecting plant performance, while the opposite holds true for the insect herbivore.

In their understanding, the landmark of their home town is a monument of architecture of national importance, and not an abiotic component of landscape, such as geomorphological forms or local climate.

Accordingly, the abiotic component of the soil CO2 efflux is generally neglected in partitioning approaches and forest C budgeting (e.g. Davidson et al. 2002; Giardina and Ryan 2002; Reichstein et al. 2005).

Because weathering of carbonate bedrock proceeds at comparably low rates and because most of the released C is considered to be leached out of the soil, the abiotic component of the soil CO2 efflux is generally presumed as marginal (Kuzyakov 2006).

For convenience, any segment of the landscape that includes the biotic and abiotic components is called an ecosystem.

Elements within biogeochemical cycles flow in various forms from the nonliving (abiotic) components of the biosphere to the living (biotic) components and back.

Physicochemical phenomena affect every body of inland water, creating unique relationships among and within the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.

Meanwhile, the essential elements follow pathways that cycle between these biotic components and the abiotic components of the ecosystem (see biosphere: The organism and the environment: Resources of the biosphere: Nutrient cycling).

Among its primary interests are the assessment of toxic substances in the environment, the monitoring of environments for the presence of toxic substances, the effects of toxins on biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems, and the metabolism and biological and environmental fate of toxins.

These biotic and abiotic components are connected together through nutrient cycles and energy flows [30].