Adaptations of Desert Animals Two characteristics of the desert i.e., high temperature and scarcity of rainfall determine the occurrence, distribution and adaptations of desert animals. In addition to these the highly characteristic "spaced distribution" of the desert vegetation also affects the desert fauna. The characteristic animals of the desert are insects, small rodents, and reptiles. Birds and mammals are comparatively [...]
Deep sea is characterized by a set of environmental conditions, which in turn determine the adaptations of deep-sea forms. Of all the oceanic zones, light penetrates only into the euphotic zone; the remaining zones are aphotic or devoid of light (bathyal, abyssal and hadal zones). The term hadal zone is used to designate the perpetually cold and dark supreme depths [...]
Read this article to learn about the different Conditions Affecting the Organisms in Natural Ecosystems ! A number of environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, humidity, currents and pressures, general weather conditions, soil and fire (all physical factors), and atmospheric and dissolved gases, pH, nutrients and food (all chemical factors), and biotic factors (plants and animals of the same [...]