The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Lightning fire is the dominant natural disturbance of the western mixedwood boreal forest of North America. We quantified the independent ...

Plants are increasingly encountering abiotic stressors, such as salinity, drought, heavy metals, microplastics, and various environmental contaminants, that ...