Topic:Bionomics
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Welcome to the department of bionomics!
Actually this term, "bionomics" is derived from the comprehensive study of an organism and its relation to its environment. Today we call it, "ecology" or a more specific subdiscipline of Ecological Economics. An example of studies of this type is Richard B. Selander's Bionomics, Systematics and Phylogeny of Lytta, a Genus of Blister Beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Illinois Biological Monographs: number 28, 1960. Michael Rothschild used the term in his book, but does not make reference to prior uses.
Bionomics may be defined two different ways:
- as an economic discipline which studies economy as a self organized evolving ecosystem (Michael Rothschild);
- as a biological discipline which studies the economic species (living organisms having economic nature), relations between them and relations between them and their environment (Igor Flor).
The main method of bionomics is the comparative bioeconomic analysis based on the universal system of bioeconomic analogies (parallels). Bionomics is one of the best ways to build ecological economy and to avoid ecocatastrophe (International Bionomics Institute).
[edit] Department news
- February 28, 2007 - Department founded!
