Editing Environmental factor (section)

{{Short description|Any factor, whether abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms in an ecosystem}}
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An '''environmental factor''', '''ecological factor''' or '''eco factor''' is any factor, [[abiotic]] or biotic, that influences [[living organism]]s.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Gilpin A | date = 1996 | title = Dictionary of Environment and Sustainable Development. | publisher = [[John Wiley and Sons]] | page = 247 }}</ref>  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]], [[predator]]s, and [[parasites]].