Abiotic stress
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Date: 2021-12-05

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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.
Whereas a biotic stress would include living disturbances such as fungi or harmful insects, abiotic stress factors, or stressors, are naturally occurring,
often intangible and inanimate factors such as intense sunlight, temperature or wind that may cause harm to the plants and animals in the area affected.
Abiotic stress is essentially unavoidable.
Abiotic stress affects animals, but plants are especially dependent, if not solely dependent, on environmental factors, so it is particularly constraining.
Abiotic stress is the most harmful factor concerning the growth and productivity of crops worldwide.
Research has also shown that abiotic stressors are at their most harmful when they occur together, in combinations of abiotic stress factors.
Abiotic stress comes in many forms.
The most common of the stressors are the easiest for people to identify, but there are many other, less recognizable abiotic stress factors which affect environments constantly.
The most basic stressors include: Lesser-known stressors generally occur on a smaller scale.
They include: poor edaphic conditions like rock content and pH levels, high radiation, compaction, contamination, and other, highly specific conditions like rapid rehydration during seed germination.
Abiotic stress, as a natural part of every ecosystem, will affect organisms in a variety of ways.
Although these effects may be either beneficial or detrimental, the location of the area is crucial in determining the extent of the impact that abiotic stress wil...