What are some biotic factors of the rainforest?
Biotic factors are not simply a list of the living organisms, plant, animal, fungi etc but how they specifically interact. Part of what makes an organism alive is its ability to react & interact with both other living organisms and the abiotic elements of the ecosystem. Go through the list of what defines an organism as living and specify how the organism of interest accomplishes each aspect of its life both as part of its species and as part of its ecosystem. Biotic factors are the living components that affect an organism; what it eats, what eats it, where and how it forages for food to eat while avoiding predators. How it eliminates wastes. Biotic factors include activities like how an organism reproduces: things like how it locates a mate; its gestation/germination time and parental care. A part of the biotic are how the species members interact in social interactions: herd forming, pair bonding, or primarily solitary. Rainforest plants that are not trees must find light. Some grow
