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Scales of data

An audit of recent research on the scales of data collection in ecology highlights the field’s data limitations, which may hinder progress in linking processes across scales.

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Fig. 1: Ecological data in space and time.

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Ernest, S.K.M. Scales of data. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 769–770 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0523-5

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