Delphis F Levia Jr¹, Andrew J Guswa², Doerthe Tetzlaff^3,4, John Steven Selker⁵, Darryl E Carlyle-Moses⁶, Elizabeth W Boyer⁷, Michael P Bruen⁸, Carles Cayuela⁹, Irena F Creed¹⁰, Nick Van De Giesen¹¹, Domenico Grasso¹², David M Hannah¹³, Janice Elaine Hudson¹⁴, Sean Hudson¹⁴, Shin'ichi Iida¹⁵, Robert B Jackson¹⁶, Gabriel George Katul¹⁷, Tomo'omi Kumagai¹⁸, Pilar Llorens⁹, Flavio Lopes Ribeiro¹⁴, Beate Michalzik¹⁹, Kazuki Nanko¹⁵, Christopher Oster¹⁴, Diane E Pataki²⁰, Catherine A Peters²¹, Andrea Rinaldo²², Daniel Sanchez Carretero¹⁴, Branimir Trifunovic¹⁴ and Maciej Zalewski²³, (1)University of Delaware, Departments of Geography and Plant & Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Smith College, Picker Engineering Program, Northampton, MA, United States, (3)Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (4)Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany, (5)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Thompson Rivers University, Geography and Environmental Studies, Kamloops, BC, Canada, (7)Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (8)Univ College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (9)Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (10)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (11)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (12)University of Michigan- Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, United States, (13)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (14)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (15)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Ibaraki, Japan, (16)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (17)Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States, (18)The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, (19)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, (20)University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (21)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (22)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Lausanne, Switzerland, (23)University of Lodz, Department of Applied Ecology, Lodz, Poland