1. Quantitative Assessment Methods Section Pacific Biological Station Fisheries and Oceans Canada Nanaimo, BC Canada
2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CT USA
3. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
4. Department of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin TX USA
5. Department of Community Ecology UFZ Helmholtz‐Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig Germany
6. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
7. Department of Computer Sciences Martin Luther University Halle Germany
8. Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
9. Institute of Biology, Leipzig University Leipzig Germany
10. Department of Physiological Diversity Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig Germany
11. Institute of Biology Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle (Saale) Germany
12. Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment Carl‐von‐Ossietzky University Oldenburg Oldenburg Germany
13. Helmholtz‐Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity University of Oldenburg [HIFMB] Oldenburg Germany
14. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota Twin Cities Saint Paul MN USA
15. UMR Eco&Sols Campus Supagro Montpellier France
16. Synthesis Center of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ResearchLeipzig Germany
17. University of Trento, Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering Trento Italy
18. Eawag, Aquatic Ecology Department Dübendorf Switzerland
19. Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
20. Department of Physiological Diversity UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig Germany
21. Synthesis Center of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Ecosystem Modeling Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB) University of Würzburg Würzburg Germany
22. School of Biology and Ecology University of Maine Orono ME USA