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A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or
population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their
survival, development, and evolution.[1] A biophysical environment can vary in
scale from microscopic to global in extent. It can also be subdivided according to
its attributes. Examples include the marine environment, the atmospheric
environment and the terrestrial environment.[2] The number of biophysical
environments is countless, given that each living organism has its own environment.

The term environment can refer to a singular global environment in relation to

humanity, or a local biophysical environment, e.g. the UK's Environment Agency.

Contents
1 Life-environment interaction
2 Related studies
3 See also
4 References
Life-environment interaction
All life that has survived must have adapted to the conditions of its environment.
Temperature, light, humidity, soil nutrients, etc., all influence the species
within an environment. However life in turn modifies, in various forms, its
conditions. Some long-term modifications along the history of the planet have been
significant, such as the incorporation of oxygen to the atmosphere. This process
consisted in the breakdown of carbon dioxide by anaerobic microorganisms that used
the carbon in their metabolism and released the oxygen to the atmosphere. This led
to the existence of oxygen-based plant and animal life, the great oxygenation
event.

Related studies

The ecosystem of public parks often includes humans feeding the wildlife.
Environmental science is the study of the interactions within the biophysical
environment. Part of this scientific discipline is the investigation of the effect
of human activity on the environment.

Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology and a part of environmental sciences, is often

mistaken as a study of human-induced effects on the environment.

Environmental studies is a broader academic discipline that is the systematic study

of interaction of humans with their environment. It is a broad field of study that
includes:

The natural environment

Built environments
Social environments
Environmentalism is a broad social and philosophical movement that, in a large
part, seeks to minimize and compensate the negative effect of human activity on the
biophysical environment. The issues of concern for environmentalists usually relate
to the natural environment with the more important ones being climate change,
species extinction, pollution, and old growth forest loss.

One of the studies related include employing Geographic Information Science to

study the biophysical environment.[3]

Biophysics is a multidisciplinary study utilizing systems from physics to study

biological phenomena.[4] Its scope ranges from a molecular level up and into
populations separated by geographical boundaries.[5]

See also
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References
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Kemp, David Walker (1998). Environment Dictionary. London, UK: Routledge.
Deng, Y. X., and J. P. Wilson. 2006. “The Role of Attribute Selection in GIS
Representations of the Biophysical Environment”. Annals of the Association of
American Geographers 96 (1). [Association of American Geographers, Taylor &
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Zhou, Huan-Xiang (2011-03-02). "Q&A: What is biophysics?". BMC Biology. 9: 13.
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Urbanc, Brigita (2011-09-20). "The Scope and Topics of Biophysics" (PDF). Drexel
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