1. Department of Animal Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
2. Department of Plant Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
3. Department of Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
4. Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
5. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
6. Biodiversity, Environment and Healthcare Research Group, University of the Americas, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
7. Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences, University of the Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
8. Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Quito, Ecuador
9. Department of Forestry, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
10. Department of Remote Sensing, National Institute of Spatial Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
11. Institute of Biology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
12. Institute of Ecology, National University of Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
13. College of Environmental Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
14. Cape Horn International Center, University of the Magallanes, Puerto Williams, Chile
15. School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Open University, Bogota, Colombia
16. Laboratory of Ecosystem Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru