1. Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Univ. of Freiburg Tennenbacher Str. 4 DE‐79106 Freiburg Germany
2. Argentine Inst. for Dryland Research, CONICET Mendoza Argentina
3. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, National Univ. of Cuyo Mendoza Argentina
4. Chicago Botanic Garden Glencoe IL USA
5. Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO USA
6. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
7. Dept Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Halle Germany
8. Inst. of Biology, Martin Luther Univ. Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
9. Freiburg Inst. for Advanced Studies, Univ. of Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau Germany
10. Inst. of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena Jena Germany
11. Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Colorado Boulder CO USA
12. Dept of Biology, Technische Univ. Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
13. Dept of Ecology, Montana State Univ. Bozeman MT USA
14. College of Agriculture, Henan Univ. of Science and Technology Luoyang PR China
15. Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Exeter Penryn UK
16. Dept of Biology, California State Univ. Channel Islands Camarillo CA USA
17. Plant Biology and Conservation Program, Northwestern Univ. Evanston IL USA
18. Inst. de Ecología Regional (IER), Univ. Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)‐Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Tucumán Argentina
19. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Univ. Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) Tucumán Argentina
20. Inst. of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal Univ. Wuhan PR China
21. Dept of Biology, San Francisco State Univ. San Francisco CA USA
22. Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick NJ USA
23. Laboratory of Biogeography and Ecology, Dept of Geography, Univ. of the Aegean Mytilene Greece
24. Bioscience, Aarhus Univ. Aarhus Denmark
25. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, US Geological Survey Jamestown ND USA