Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Bin Wang, University of California Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA, United States, Manuel Lerdau, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Huan Zhang, Beijing Forestry University, School of Forestry, Beijing, China

Atticus Stovall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John David Armston, University of Queensland, St Lucia, United States and Kim Calders, Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium

Polly Buotte, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Chonggang Xu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Charles Koven, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael Goulden, Univesity of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Junyan Ding, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Lara M Kueppers, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States

Gordon B Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Elsa Ordway¹, Gregory Asner², Stuart J Davies³, Simon L Lewis⁴, Reuben Nilus⁵, Lan Qie⁶, Oliver L. Phillips⁴, David Burslem⁷, Sabrina Russo⁸, Michael J. O'Brien⁹, Mohizah Bt. Mohamad¹⁰, Xiangtao Xu¹¹, Marcos Longo¹² and Paul R Moorcroft¹, (1)Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, United States, (4)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)Sabah Forestry Department, Sandakan, Malaysia, (6)University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom, (7)University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (8)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (9)Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain, (10)Sarawak Forest Department, Kuching, Malaysia, (11)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Soudeh Ghasemian, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Sharon A Billings, Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States

Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States and Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States

Emily J. Francis¹, James A. Lutz² and Caroline E. Farrior¹, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Utah State University, Wildland Resources Department, Logan, UT, United States