Xiangtao Xu, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States, Alexandra G. Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Liang Xu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States and Marcos Longo, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil