Abiotic stress is the negative impact of non-living factors on organisms living in a particular environment. It occurs when a non-living variable moves beyond its normal range of variation enough to noticeably harm the population performance or individual physiology of the organisms affected. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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ScaleAffects individual organisms and can extend to population level performance within a specific environment 1 Sources
1. Abiotic stress (Wikipedia)
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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.
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