What is the capacity to affect the outcomes of oneself others and the environment?

Answer 1

One answer is influence, power, or modification. Some plants, for example, emit volatile compounds such as terpenes that can attract insects, or inhibit the growth of other plants proximal to the emissions. So the best answer is stimulate a response, excite or motivate. Beaver's modify their environment by blocking streams, they stimulate a response in vegetation that can grow along the edges of beaver ponds, the flowering of pond plants excites insects to collect nectar or lay eggs and the influence of the beavers on the available freshwater in the area is said to be significant.

Such alterations of conditions can be dramatic improvements, cause damage, allow recovery, or even destroy environmentally valuable features of places.