Stephan Getzin^1,2, Todd E. Erickson³, Hezi Yizhaq⁴, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas⁵, Andreas Huth² and Kerstin Wiegand¹, (1)University of Goettingen, Department of Ecosystem Modelling, Goettingen, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany, (3)The University of Western Australia, School of Biological Sciences, Crawley, Australia, (4)Ben Gurion University, Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel, (5)The University of New South Wales, Centre of Ecosystem Science, Kensington, Australia