What is an example of a biotic process?

Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem. Biotic components usually include: Producers, i.e. autotrophs: e.g. plants, they convert the energy [from photosynthesis (the transfer of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into energy), or other sources such as hydro thermal vents] into food. read more

Biotic factors may include things like predation, disease, competition, parasitism, consumption, and symbiosis. And certainly abiotic factors, like the weather, can also impact living things. The interplay of all the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem determines the carrying capacity of that ecosystem for any particular species. read more

Your lawn and that untraveled road are examples of ‘secondary succession’, sometimes also called ‘old field’ succession in which the disturbance was the plowed or cultivated garden or field that was left undisturbed. read more