Ecology and chemistry

In the previous posters (I and II) I pointed out the anomaly of ecology where the focus is on statistics instead that on the eponym discipline. Somebody may say that in ecology the general principles are few and that the number of living species and of types of ecosystems is so huge that it is impossible to manage. This rebuttal does not takes into account that also chemical compounds are millions, and yet a chemist is required  to know not only the generalities of the composition of the different classes of compounds  but also the conditions and details of the reactions - otherwise you are not a chemist, you are a middle school teacher of science. Maybe the true reason of the anomaly of ecology is that it is not considered truly a science, and that therefore it is pointless to put in ecology the same effort that chemists put in learning and studying chemistry.