Environmental factor
Any factor, whether abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms in an ecosystem / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms.[1] Abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, air, soil, water and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives. Biotic factors would include the availability of food organisms and the presence of biological specificity, competitors, predators, and parasites.
For the green-chemistry metric, see Environmental factor (green chemistry).
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