Heidi Steltzer¹, Chelsea Wilmer¹, Amanda Henderson², Rosemary W H Carroll³, Jeffery Deems⁴, Bhavna Arora⁵, Xiaofan Yang⁶, Tao Che⁷, Tonghua Wu⁸, Yuxin Wu⁹, Eoin Brodie¹⁰, Brian Joseph Enquist¹¹, Patrick Sorensen¹⁰, Haruko Murakami Wainwright¹⁰, Nicholas Bouskill⁹, Xiaoyan Li¹², Kenneth Hurst Williams¹³ and Susan Hubbard¹⁰, (1)Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (4)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (7)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (8)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China, (13)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States