Temperature and moisture are the two climatic factors that most affect terrestrial biomes.

Abiotic factors that influence aquatic biomes include light availability, depth, stratification, temperature, currents, and tides.

Aquatic biomes can be generally classified based on the amount of salt in the water. Freshwater biomes have less than 1% salt and are typical of ponds and lakes, streams and rivers, and wetlands. Marine biomes have more salt and are characteristic of the oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries.

Factors that affect aquatic ecosystems include water flow rate, salinity, acidity, oxygen, light levels, depth, and temperature. Light levels affect photosynthesizing plants and predation.

Most aquatic organisms do not have to deal with extremes of temperature or moisture. Instead, their main limiting factors are the availability of sunlight and the concentration of dissolved oxygen and nutrients in the water.

Our water resources face a host of serious threats, all of which are caused primarily by human activity. They include sedimentation, pollution, climate change, deforestation, landscape changes, and urban growth.

Edaphic factors, which include soil chemistry, soil texture and topography, may have strong and deterministic effects on community composition.

Critical physical attributes include temperature, light, and hydrology (such as rainfall, soil moisture, flow rates, and sea level), as well as infrequent events that reshape ecological systems, such as fires, floods, and storms.

The edaphic factors are the abiotic factors with respect to soil. These factors include; Soil texture – The texture of the soil is variable from particles like clay to larger particles like sand. Sandy soils are suitable for growing plants and are well aerated and are easy to cultivate.

Abstract: The edaphic factors are the soil properties that affect the diversity of organisms living in the soil environment. These include soil structure, temperature, pH, and salinity. Some of them are influenced by man, but most are independent of human activity.

soil organisms. The factors which relate to structure and composition of soil are called edaphic factors. Soil is a very complex medium. A good fertile soil contains mineral matter (40%), organic matter (10%), water (15%) and air (25%). Mineral matter in the soil occurs in the form of particles.

Physical factors refer to fitness, skills and tactics. Fitness covers agility, CRE, flexibility and power. These can impact performance in different ways.

“Human Factors” Viewed as “Human Characteristics” Here human factors defines the nature of our “humanness,” that is, the characteristics of “being human.” Physical human factors include physical attributes of the human body such as height, weight, arm reach, center of gravity, etc.

Factors of humans include, for example: cognitive functions (such as attention, detection, perception, memory, judgement and reasoning (including heuristics and biases), decision making – each of these is further divided into sub-categories)

In the Master’s thesis, “Human factor as a source of property losses”, the human factor was seen to be a factor that affects human performance. It was divided into four levels: individual, group, organizational and external factors, and their contribution to property losses was investigated.

Workplace health, safety and welfare

• Temperature and humidity.
• Ventilation.
• Ergonomics / physical arrangement of work area & equipment.
• Space, lighting and cleanliness of the work area.

Overview. Human factors is an interdisciplinary area of psychology that focuses on a range of different topics, including ergonomics, workplace safety, human error, product design, human capability, and human-computer interaction.

Human factors is therefore concerned with applying what is known about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of systems, tasks/activities, environments, and equipment/technologies.

Human performance factors are factors that affect an individual’s ability to work safely and efficiently. They may also affect an entire workforce, but for this safety talk we will discuss a few of human performance factors and how they can affect you as an individual worker.

The Role of Human Factors in Healthcare

• Improve patient safety and satisfaction.
• Reduce clinician burnout.
• Boost process efficiency.
• Enhance communication.
• Generate effective and sustainable solutions.
• Mitigate the risk of error.
• Optimize training.
• Design user-centered health IT solutions.

Human factors are those things that affect an individual’s performance. A human factors approach is key to safer healthcare. It will become part of the core curricula of all health professionals. Training needs to be co-ordinated along interprofessional lines.