Look up biotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals...

environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy...

Biotic potential is described by the unrestricted growth of populations resulting in the maximum growth of that population.   Biotic potential is the highest...

Biotic stress is stress that occurs as a result of damage done to an organism by other living organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, beneficial...

Biotic homogenization is the process by which two or more spatially distributed ecological communities become increasingly similar over time. This process...

Biotic material or biological derived material is any material that originates from living organisms. Most such materials contain carbon and are capable...

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria. It is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial...

Biotic interchange is the process by which species from one biota invade another biota, usually due to the disappearance of a previously impassable barrier...

A biotic index is a scale for showing the quality of an environment by indicating the types and abundances of organisms present in a representative sample...

benefit themselves. This debate created two different classifications for biotic interactions, one based on the time (long-term and short-term interactions)...