The edaphic factor includes a range of proprieties of the soil, physical, chemical, and biological that are result from biological and geological phenomena. In the case of living organisms, we have those chemical and physical properties, such as minerals and water, as well as soil aeration influence ecology and evolution of plants and in consequence, associated biota, this is because plants are the base of the food chain as well as pioneers in many cases of ecosystem structure.
Following this line of thought, we have that soil is very important, factors as simple as the consistency, very different sand from mud, impact texture and chemical composition, and in consequence the type of organisms that can settle there, we can see that in deserts (sandy soil, limited water, good nutrients), the type of plants that grow have certain characteristics, for example, they live with very few water, and in turn, they provide refuge and food for other animals in the desert, on the other hand, we have places like confers forests, where the soil is rich and water is available in the subsoil, also tend to be mountainous sites, those plants are adapted to other conditions, their roots retain soil preventing erosion, also the kind of animals that depend on them are different.