Guangqin Song¹, Alice Hughes¹, Xu Lian², Xiang Zeng¹, Alfredo R Huete³, Loren Albert⁴, Xiangtao Xu⁵, Josep Penuelas⁶, Constantin Zohner⁷, Bruce W Nelson⁸, Shuli Chen⁹, Matteo Detto¹⁰, Zhengfei Guo¹, Xing Li¹¹, Ziyu Lin¹, Yadvinder Malhi¹², Scott Saleska¹³, Yanjun Su¹⁴, Jingfeng Xiao¹⁵, Yingyi Zhao¹, Peng Zhu¹⁶, Lingli Liu¹⁴ and Jin Wu¹, (1)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Peking University, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (5)Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (6)CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, (7)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (8)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (9)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (11)Sun Yat-sen University, The School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China, (12)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (13)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (14)Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (15)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (16)The University of Hong Kong, Department of Geography, Hong Kong, China