Suzanne Pierre, Leander DL Anderegg, Robert Paul Skelton and Todd Dawson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Huiying Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Han Wang, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, Iain Colin Prentice, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Sandy Harrison, University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science (SAGES), Reading, United Kingdom, Wang Genxu, IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China and Xiangyang Sun, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China

Yao Liu¹, M. Luke McCormack², Kiona Ogle³, Anthony P Walker¹ and Colleen M. Iversen⁴, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, IL, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Nicholas G Smith, Texas Tech University, Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Elizabeth F Waring, Texas Tech University, Biological Sciences, Lubbock, United States, Helen G Scott, Texas Tech University, Biotechnology, Lubbock, United States and Trevor F Keenan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

Camille Defrenne^1,2, Suzanne W Simard², M. Luke McCormack³, W Jean Roach⁴, Timothy J Philpott⁵, Brian J Pickles⁶, Shalom D Addo-Danso⁷, Colleen M. Iversen⁸, Joanne Childs⁹ and Paul J Hanson⁹, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (3)The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, IL, United States, (4)Skyline Forestry Consultants Ltd., Kamloops, BC, Canada, (5)Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Williams Lake, Canada, (6)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (7)CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (9)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Anthony W King¹, Jeffrey S. Amthor², Mirindi Eric Dusenge³, Anna M Jensen⁴, Daniel M Ricciuto¹, Eric Ward⁵ and Jeff Warren¹, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)AIR Worldwide, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (4)Linnaeus University, Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, Växjö, Sweden, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States

Sergio Marconi, University of Florida, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Gainesville, FL, United States, Benjamin Weinstein, University of Florida, Wildlife ecology and conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States, Stephanie Bohlman, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Ethan P. White, University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Gainesville, United States

Florian Hofhansl, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Eduardo Chacón, University of Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología, San Jose, Costa Rica, Åke Brännström, Umeå University, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå, Sweden, Ulf Dieckmann, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Evolution and Ecology Program, Laxenburg, Austria and Oskar Franklin, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Ecosystem Services and Management Program, Laxenburg, Austria

Anna T Trugman¹, Leander DL Anderegg², John Shaw³ and William Anderegg¹, (1)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)US Forest Service, Logan, UT, United States

Yuanyuan Wang¹, Chengjun Ji², Suhui Ma², Qiong Cai² and Lihua An², (1)Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China

Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Elena Plekhanova and Jacqueline Oehri, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ian J Wright¹, Oscar Perez-Priego², Andrea Westerband², Iain Colin Prentice³, Ning Dong¹ and Shubham Chhajed², (1)Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (3)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ning Dong¹, Ian J Wright¹, Iain COLIN C Prentice^2,3, Owen K Atkin⁴, Keith J Bloomfield^5,6, Sean M Gleason⁷, Han Wang⁸, Vincent Maire⁹ and Nicholas G Smith^10,11, (1)Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Imperial College London, AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (3)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (4)Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (5)Australian National University, Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (6)Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, Ascot, United Kingdom, (7)USDA‐ARS, Water Management and Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, United States, (8)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (9)University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal, QC, Canada, (10)Texas Tech University, Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Jan Pisek¹, Ladislava Řezníčková^2,3, Kairi Adamson¹ and David Ellsworth⁴, (1)University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory, Tartu, Estonia, (2)Masaryk University, Institute of Geography, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, (4)Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia

Nannan An¹, Nan Lu¹ and Bojie Fu², (1)Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Verity G Salmon¹, Colleen M. Iversen¹, Breann Spencer², Alistair Rogers³, Kim Ely⁴, Shawn Serbin³ and Stan Wullschleger⁵, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Brooke Bossert Osborne¹, Fiona Soper², Megan Nasto³, Siwook Hwang⁴, Megan Machmuller⁴, Benjamin W Sullivan⁵, Greg Asner⁶, Cory C. Cleveland⁷, Alan Townsend⁸ and Stephen Porder¹, (1)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Utah State University, Utah Forest Institute, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (8)Colorado College, Environmental Science, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Kimberly O'Keefe¹, Rachel Keen², Jesse B Nippert² and Kate McCulloh¹, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Manhattan, KS, United States

Anju Mallissery¹, Sreeush M G¹, Vinu Valsala¹, Smitha B R², Faseela Hamza³, Bharathi G⁴ and Chennu Venkateswara Naidu⁴, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (2)Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Kochi, India, (3)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Development of Skilled Manpower in Earth System Science, Pune, India, (4)Andhra University, Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Vishakhapatnam, India

Silvia Caldararu¹, Tea Thum¹, Dushan Kumarathunge², Belinda Medlyn³ and Sönke Zaehle¹, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, NSW, Australia, (3)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Sydney, Australia

Zhihui Wang¹, Adam Chlus¹, Ryan Geygan¹, Zhiwei Ye¹, Ting Zheng¹, Aditya Singh², John Couture³, Jeannine Cavender-Bares⁴, Eric L Kruger¹ and Philip A Townsend¹, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Purdue University, Departments of Entomology and Forestry and Natural Resources and Center for Plant Biology, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States

Daniel M Griffith, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States

Lillie Haddock, Stephanie Pennington and Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States

Han Wang, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, Iain COLIN C Prentice, Imperial College London, AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom and Ian J Wright, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Gerhard W Boenisch, MPI Biogeochemie, Jena, Germany, Sandra Díaz, Universidad Nacionalde Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Córdoba, Argentina, Sandra Lavorel, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), CNRS, Grenoble, France, Iain Colin Prentice, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Paul Leadley, University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France, Christian Wirth, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and TRY Consortium

Natalia Leonor Quinteros Casaverde, City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden, Biology, New York, NY, United States, Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States and Douglas Daly, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States

Avinash Subramanian, Mingzhen Lu, Julie Anne Tierney and Lars O. O. Hedin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Elsa Ordway, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Greg Asner, Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States

Megan Wilcots, University of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, United States, Benton Neil Taylor, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, Erin K Kuprewicz, University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Storrs, United States and Duncan Menge, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Yaoqi Li¹, Peter B. Reich², Nawal Shrestha³, Bernhard Schmid⁴, Xiao Feng⁵, Tong Lyu³, Brian S. Maitner⁶, Xiaoting Xu⁷, Xiaojuan Feng⁸, Brian Joseph Enquist⁹ and Macroecology lab in Peking University, (1)Peking University, Institute of Ecology, Beijing, China, (2)University of Minnesota Morris, Morris, MN, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)University of Zurich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (7)Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, (8)State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (9)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States

Laura Podzikowski¹, Kristen Mecke², Bryan Foster³ and James Bever³, (1)University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, United States

Andrew Ouimette, Scott V Ollinger, Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, Zaixing Zhou, Jack Hastings and Kaitlyn Baillargeon, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States

Greg Vose, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Jennifer L Funk, Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology; Biological Sciences, Orange, United States, Sarah Kimball, University of California, Irvine, Center for Environmental Biology, Irvine, CA, United States and Travis E Huxman, University of California at Irvine, Center for Environmental Biology, Irvine, CA, United States

Cecilia Chavana-Bryant, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, Trevor F Keenan, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Nicholas G Smith, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Adrienne Keller¹, Edward R Brzostek¹, Matthew Craig¹ and Richard Phillips², (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States

Charles D Koven¹, Ryan G Knox², Rosie Fisher³, Jeff Chambers¹, Bradley Christoffersen⁴, Stuart J Davies⁵, Detto Matteo⁶, Michael Dietze⁷, Boris Faybishenko¹, Jennifer Holm¹, Maoyi Huang⁸, Marlies Kovenock⁹, Lara M Kueppers¹⁰, David M Lawrence³, Gregory Lemieux¹, Isabel Martinez Cano¹¹, Elias Charbel Massoud¹², Nate McDowell¹³, Helene C Muller-Landau¹⁴, Jessica Fay Needham¹⁵, Richard J Norby¹⁶, Tom Powell¹⁷, Alistair Rogers¹⁸, Shawn Serbin¹⁸, Jacquelyn K Shuman¹⁹, Abigail L. S. Swann²⁰, Charuleka Varadharajan²¹, Anthony Walker²², S Joseph Wright²³ and Chonggang Xu²⁴, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, United States, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, United States, (6)Organization Not Listed, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (8)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (9)University of Washington, Department of Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, United States, (12)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (13)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (14)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, (15)University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (16)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (17)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (18)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States, (19)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (20)University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences and Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (21)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (22)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (23)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States, (24)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Yang LIU, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Yousry A El-Kassaby, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Steven Augustine, Madison, Wisconsin, United States and Kate McCulloh, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Molly Ng, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Selena Y Smith, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Yuechen Chu¹, Han Wang¹, Sandy Harrison² and Iain COLIN C Prentice³, (1)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science (SAGES), Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom

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

Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Davila, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, H. Jochen Schenk, California State University Fullerton, Biological Science, Fullerton, CA, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States