Cross‐scale Perspectives: Integrating Long‐term and High‐frequency Data into Our Understanding of Communities and Ecosystems

Ecologists are amassing extensive data sets that include both longterm records documenting trends and variability in natural systems on interannual to decadal time scales and sensorbased measurements on minute to subhourly scales for extended periods (Hampton et al. 2013 ). Together, these longterm and highfrequency data are contributing to our ecological understanding. Although there have been several previous ESA sessions that have explored the insights provided by either longterm data or highfrequency data, to our knowledge this organized oral session provided one of the fi rst opportunities to synthesize the lessons learned from leveraging both longterm data and highfrequency approaches.