Add in the nonliving aspects of the area, such as the water, and you have an ecosystem. Both the lake and log contain a variety of species that interact with each other and with abiotic factors. It in...Add in the nonliving aspects of the area, such as the water, and you have an ecosystem. Both the lake and log contain a variety of species that interact with each other and with abiotic factors. It includes all the ways that the species interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors of the environment. Two important aspects of a species’ niche are the food it eats and how the food is obtained. The habitat is the physical environment in which a species lives and to which it is adapted.
