Integrating knowledge across scales is a central problem within ecology and is particularly challenging in the marine environment. In the ocean, large variations in body size, geographic scale, and life history make it difficult to detect patterns across species, much less within the complex life cycles of the majority of marine clades. Moreover, the challenge of accessing, viewing, and sampling marine organisms reduces the availability of data used to identify patterns in the first place. The ability to integrate information across scales and assemble patterns is critical to correctly identify underlying ecological processes.

Fortunately, there are several new methods and techniques we can use to integrate across scales and address ecological questions. In this session we invite presentations which use novel or integrative approaches to generate ecological inferences across multiple scales. Such approaches often combine insights from a variety of fields (mathematics, chemistry, engineering, etc.) and range from highly technical statistical methods to unique applications of instrumentation. Presentations which explicitly tackle scaling or emphasize how methods can be applied to other systems are preferred.

Knowledge shared through this session will generate new ecological questions and provide inspiration for novel methods for future cross-scale research.

• Marine Ecology and Biodiversity -
• Ocean Technologies and Observatories -