Amphibian community ecology and long-term research—Biological diversity is threatened worldwide and it is an urgent priority to generate more information that can be used for understanding ecological processes and determining conservation strategies. Since 2001, I have been studying amphibian communities in the lowland Amazon rainforest of Peru (e.g., von May et al. 2010, Journal of Tropical Ecology 26: 509–519). The goal of this work is to examine how local and regional amphibian assemblages vary across space and time. Our main study site is Los Amigos Biological Station, located in the buffer zone of Manu National Park, the protected area with the highest number of species of amphibians and reptiles on the planet. Previous field surveys (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014) have included the participation of ~20 students from five countries, and, more recently (2016, 2017, 2018), several Herpetology field teams from the University of Michigan (Rabosky and Davis Rabosky labs).