Characteristics of abiotic factors of an ecosystem

Question

How biological diversity is related to the characteristics of abiotic factors of an ecosystem?

Answer 1

The accessibility of abiotic factors, such as light, mineral salts, moisture, carbon dioxide and heat, conditions more or less biodiversity of the ecosystem. Photosynthesis depends on water and light, and plants require mineral salts, sufficient temperature, and carbon dioxide for their cells to effort. In the environments where these factors are not preventive, the synthesis of the organic material (through photosynthesis) is maximum, algae and plants can replicate easier, the population of such beings raises, potential ecological niches multiply as well as new species emerge. The large mass of the producers makes viable the appearing of a diversity of consumers of many orders. In the environments with restrictive abiotic factors, such as deserts, the producers exist in little number as well as in less diversity, a feature that thus extends to consumers and situations fewer ecological niches to be explored.