Abiotic stress

Definition

Abiotic stress is the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms in a specific environment. The non-living variable must influence the environment beyond its normal range of variation to adversely affect the population performance or individual physiology of the organism in a significant way.

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ratio Feeding frenzy Flagship species Flood Food chain Food web Foraging Foster's rule Foundation species Functional ecology Fungi Generalist and specialist species Green world hypothesis Guild (ecology)Habitat Habitat fragmentation Heart rate Heat Heat wave Herbivore Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Heterotroph Heterotrophic nutrition Hydrothermal vent Ideal free distribution Industrial ecology Insectivore Insular biogeography Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Interspecific competition Intertidal ecology Intraguild predation Intraspecific competition Introduced species Invasive species Kelp forest Keystone species Kinetotroph Kleiber's law Lake ecosystem Land change modeling Landscape ecology Landscape epidemiology Landscape limnology Latitudinal gradients in species diversity Liebig's law of the minimum Limiting similarity Lipid List of feeding behaviours Lithoautotroph Lithotroph Logistic function Lotka–Volterra equations MYB (gene)Macroecology Malthusian growth model 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