Ensheng Weng, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, United States, Ray Dybzinski, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Caroline Farrior, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States and Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States