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Wetland restoration is an important and complex ecological process, and is related to many factors, including ecology, soil science, geography, hydrology, etc. (Gattie and others 2003; Hastings and others 2007).
Although this does not replace a much wider bibliographic study comparing different fields of ecology (soil ecology, marine ecology, bird ecology.etc), this suggests that soil ecology uses modelling and evolutionary thinking more parsimoniously than other fields of ecology.
First, we have also found that, inside journals not-specialized in soil ecology, soil ecology articles are less based on modelling and evolutionary approaches than the articles of other field of ecology.
Meiofauna are a focus of research from many sub-disciplines (including epidemiology, ecology, soil science, agriculture, aquaculture, and pollution monitoring), as well as providing model organisms for studies of evolutionary development (the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans) and the evolution of sex (bdelloid rotifers).
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These articles were classified in broad categories: Model, Generalist journals, Animal, Plant, Ecology, Agronomy, Soil sciences, Microbiology, Miscellaneous, Soil Ecology.
The close link between ecosystem ecology and soil ecology can explain partially the poor use made by soil ecologists of mathematical models and evolutionary knowledge since population ecology has always been more theory- and evolution-orientated.
The spatial ecology of soil microbial communities and their functioning is an understudied aspect of soil microbial ecology.
"Ecology" and "Soil ecology" refers to generalist ecology journals and journals specialized in soil ecology such as the once cited above in the first paragraph of the section.
This contributes to explain the relative independent development of general ecology and soil ecology [48], [49].
According to this explanation the lack of modelling and evolutionary interpretation would be one of the causes of the weak connection between general ecology and soil ecology.
We have tested quantitatively these hypotheses through a bibliographic study (about 23000 articles) comparing soil ecology journals, generalist ecology journals, evolutionary ecology journals and theoretical ecology journals.
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