Crossword clues for bionomics
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of organic evolution; ecology," 1888, coined by Scottish biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) from Greek bio- (see bio-) + nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatic).
Wiktionary
n. The study of an organism and its relation to its environment; ecology.
WordNet
n. the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment [syn: ecology, environmental science]
Wikipedia
In ecology, bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) is the comprehensive study of an organism and its relation to its environment. As translated from the French word Bionomie, its first use in English was in the period of 1885-1890. Another way of expressing this word is the term currently referred to as " ecology". It is sometimes used as a 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.
Usage examples of "bionomics".
Any insects there now are there because the bionomics board planned it that way and the chief ecologist okayed the invasion.
We hoped to have a hive of bees some day and the entomologists on the bionomics staff were practically busting their hearts trying to breed a strain of bees which would prosper out doors.
My survival training with Babington should have inured me to such sights, but until now I had not really believed that the matter-of-fact savagery of African bionomics would prevail in my objectified dream world.
The problem of the world, as Branson had said so many times, was in the field of bionomics.