Brian Joseph Enquist¹, Cory Merow², Lee Hannah³, Bradley Boyle⁴, Xiao Feng⁵, Brian S. Maitner⁶, Erica Newman⁴, Brian McGill⁷, Wendy Foden⁸, Jon C Lovett⁹, Pablo A. Marquet¹⁰, Guy Midgley¹¹, Richard Corlett¹², Patrick Roehrdanz¹³, Rachael V. Gallagher¹⁴, Nathan Kraft¹⁵, Naia Morueta-Holme¹⁶, Danilo M. Neves¹⁷, Michiel Pillet⁴, Brody Sandel¹⁸, Josep M. Serra-Diaz¹⁹, Irena Simova²⁰, Jens-Christian Svenning²¹, Cyrille Violle²², Susan Wiser²³, Robert K Peet^24,25, Nirav Merchant⁵, Emmanouil Anagnostou²⁶, Efthymios Nikolopoulos²⁶, Laura Duncanson²⁷, Amy E Frazier²⁸, David Barnett²⁹, Mark Schildhauer³⁰, Adam Wilson³¹, Andrew Rominger³², Jasper Slingsby³³ and Roberto Salguero-Gomez³⁴, (1)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Storrs, CT, United States, (3)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (7)University of Maine, School of Biology and Ecology, Orono, ME, United States, (8)University of Stellenbosch, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch, South Africa, (9)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (10)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (11)Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, (12)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Xishuangbanna, China, (13)University of California, Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (14)Macquarie University, Department of Biological Sciences, North Ryde,, Australia, (15)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (17)Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Botany, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, (18)Santa Clara University, Department of Biology, Santa Clara, United States, (19)Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, United States, (20)Charles University, Department of Ecology, Prague, Czech Republic, (21)Aarhus University, Bioscience, Aarhus C, Denmark, (22)Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Montpellier, France, (23)Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand, (24)Victoria, BC, Canada, (25)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (26)University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, (27)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (28)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (29)National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, (30)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, United States, (31)SUNY Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, (32)The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (33)South African Environmental Observation Network, Cape Town, South Africa, (34)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom