Comparative Biospheromics

Biospheromics is the systems-level study of ecosystems treated as integrated, analyzable biological entities, analogous to how genomics treats the genome as a unit of study. It examines the complete set of biological, chemical, physical, and ecological interactions that collectively determine ecosystem structure, function, and dynamics over time.

By explicitly integrating high-resolution molecular data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) with organismal, ecological, and abiotic measurements, biospheromics seeks to characterize emergent ecosystem properties that cannot be inferred from individual components alone.

Comparative Biospheromics applies this framework across ecosystems, time points, or experimental conditions to assess how system-level properties respond to natural variation and anthropogenic intervention under controlled or semi-controlled conditions.