1Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology University of Goettingen Göttingen Germany
2German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
3Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
4Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, University of Toulouse III, Moulis, France
5Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
6Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, USA
7Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
8Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
9Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
10Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
11Institute of Biology, Freie University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
12Soil Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
13Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
14Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
15Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
16Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
17CEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
18Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
19International Center of Tropical Biodiversity, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
20Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada
21Department of Geography, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
22Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
23Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto (Scarborough), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24Area de Biodiversidad y Conservación Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain
25Department of Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
26Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
27Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC), Valencia, Spain
28Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
29Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
30Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
31Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
32Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
33Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
34Jonah Ventures, Boulder, Colorado, USA
35Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
36Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
37Environmental Science Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen The Netherlands
38Department of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
39Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
40Faculty of Biology, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia
41CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
42CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF‐CSIC‐UAB Bellaterra Catalonia Spain
43Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
44Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
45Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
46Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
47Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
48Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
49National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
50Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
