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This document summarizes key abiotic factors that influence the distribution of plant and animal species: 1. Abiotic components like temperature, rocks, minerals, and weather determine the environment and influence which genetic traits can be expressed in plants. 2. Major abiotic factors affecting plant growth are topography, soil type, and climate conditions. These factors influence the variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem. 3. While Liebig's Law of the Minimum proposed that a single limiting factor controls growth, most research now shows multiple abiotic factors interact complexly to determine spatial distribution limits for many species.

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This document summarizes key abiotic factors that influence the distribution of plant and animal species: 1. Abiotic components like temperature, rocks, minerals, and weather determine the environment and influence which genetic traits can be expressed in plants. 2. Major abiotic factors affecting plant growth are topography, soil type, and climate conditions. These factors influence the variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem. 3. While Liebig's Law of the Minimum proposed that a single limiting factor controls growth, most research now shows multiple abiotic factors interact complexly to determine spatial distribution limits for many species.

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Name: Jamaal Fleming Form: Lower 6 Arts Subject: Environmental Science Literature Review

Reference : Pidwirny, M. (2006). "Abiotic Factors and the Distribution of Species". Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition. Date Viewed.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9e.html

Abiotic components are the nonliving components of the biosphere. Chemical and geological factors, such as rocks and minerals, and physical factors, such as temperature and weather, are referred to as abiotic components of the environment which, along with the biotic factors, determine the extent in which the genetic factor is expressed in the plant. The abiotic factors that affect plant growth and development include topography, soil, and climatic factors. Each abiotic component influences the number and variety of plants that grow in an ecosystem, which in turn has an influence on the variety of animals that live there. The major Abiotic factors to take into consideration are the Edaphic, Topographic and Climatic factors. The abiotic factors of the shoreline are Latitude and Altitude Ranges, Typical Geography, Climate, Temperature, Rainfall and Natural Resources. Organisms are generally limited by only one single physical factor that is in shortest supply relative to demand. Liebigs ideas were strongly influenced by agricultural studies that identified nitrogen or phosphorus as the nutrient limiting the production of crops. (Liebig, 1840) Liebigs theory was accepted by some researchers so completely that they called it the Law of the Minimum, and they tried to determine the single limiting factor that controls the growth of numerous species. However, subsequent studies have shown that Liebig's concept is inadequate to account for the distributional limits of a large number of species. In most cases, the spatial limits of distribution are controlled by complex interactions between several different physical factors.

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