bionomics

n. ecology, study of the relationship between organisms and their environment, branch of biology that deals with the relationship between organisms and their environment

In ecology, bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) is 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.
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Noun
1. the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
(synonym) ecology, environmental science
(hypernym) biology, biological science
(hyponym) paleoecology, palaeoecology
(class) cosmopolitan, widely distributed