THE RELEVANCE OF EDAPHIC FACTORS OF SOIL TO AGRICULTURE
Marjorie Villareal
INTRODUCTION
Soil is very beneficial to all organisms and abiotic factors in our ecosystem (e.g., a) it serves as a filter to water and a growth medium of various species b) provides habitat for billions of organisms, contributing to biodiversity c) it is also the main supplier for many minute organisms which serves as antibiotics for many diseases). We, humans are dependent to the soil like using it as a holding facility for our solid wastes, a filter for our water waste and as foundations for our infrastructures and livelihood. Our nation’s agroecosystems based on the soil which provide us with fodder, fiber, diet and energy. Improvements in watershed, natural resource,
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It basically implies that the higher the calcium carbonate a soil has the more basic it is. The sodium from the sodium carbonate is responsible for the basicity of soil.
CONCLUSION
Abiotic components are and ecological factor that acts of living components during any part of their life. Abiotic factors are the factors that are either physical or chemical factors that are the characteristic of the environment being studied. Many ecological studies have been done about the importance of the major abiotic factors which control the physical and biological components in an ecosystem at various ranges of time and space.
Edaphic and climatic factors are in relation towards each other by which if interacted, could lead to a synergistic effect. This effect could either be a boon or bane to the flora and fauna living in a habitat. It may either lead to an optimum development of species or it may be not. If environment is not favorable, then there is a possibility that a group of organisms could not survive and die. However, favorable condition in the environment could lead each organism to having its optimum growth and faster reproduction thus leading to species richness and abundance in the