Gitta Lasslop, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany, Stijn Hantson, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Matthew Forrest, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Fang Li, Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Joe Melton, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Processes Section, Victoria, BC, Canada, Chao Yue, Chinese Academy of Sciences Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Yangling, China, Sally Archibald, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Almut Arneth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, Dominique M Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sandy Harrison, University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science (SAGES), Reading, United Kingdom, Thomas Hickler, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre - BiK-F, Frankfurt, Germany, Simon Scheiter, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany and Stephen Sitch, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom