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Biotic-living components are living things that shape an ecosystem. A biotic factor is a living component that affects another organism including animals that consume the organism in question and the living food that the organism consumes. Each biotic factor needs energy to do work and food for proper growth. Biotic factors include human influence.
Biotic components are contrasted to abiotic components which are non-living components of an organism's enri