Pagination
Probably needs to be incorporated into the broader topic rather than being a stand alone entity. Perhaps put the initial explanation the first relevant section.
Pagination is meant to be used as a data discovery tool (quickly returning small chunks of data).
Completeness cannot be guaranteed due to database design and implemented limits (only the first 10,000 elements of the whole subset can be retrieved).
If you desire to retrieve more than 10,000 elements, please remove pagination to get all elements.
The EcoPlots API allows users to paginate their data request in order to retrieve small chunks of data at a time. This is great to discover the data, to inspect the shape of the response and to adjust the desired query to narrow the result subset.
In order to control the amount of computational resources needed to paginate over millions of elements, a limit of 10,000 has been established. This means that even if the count of the query (i.e., the total amount of elements) is greater than 10,000, you will be only able to paginate over and retrieve the first 10,000.
Once the query has been defined, you can remove pagination to retrieve the full set of elements.
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