Information-hierarchical organization of biosphere and problems of its sustainable development

The information-hierarchical approach is used to analyze the evolutionary developed organization of biosphere. Hierarchical levels of this entire organization as well as information relationships of biosphere cyclic development have been elucidated. These levels exhibit an increasing integration, and the lower ones therewith represent the information-hierarchical organization of cell metabolism. The concept of ‘biosphere clock’ in particular cases known as biological clocks has been proposed. Biosphere clock cyclically counts off the biospheric (biological) time at each hierarchical level from molecular to ecosystem ones. Time cycles of each level operation are included into a greater cycle of the next level according to the specific schemes defined by the formerly established information principle of natural system development. As a consequence, the duration of such incorporated cycles is fixed and equals 1, 6, 40 seconds, 24 hours, 3, 100 days, 33, 1000 years, etc. of biological time, respectively; the case is similar to 1 s, 1 min, 1 h, 1 day and other periods used in traditional counting of physical time. New fields of scientific investigations such as informative biochemistry, ecology and biology are defined. All relationships of information-hierarchical organization should be sustained for biosphere functioning.