1. Geography Department Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
2. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group Institute of Landscape Ecology University of Münster Münster Germany
3. Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human‐Environment Systems (IRI THESys) Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
4. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) Halle (Saale) Germany
5. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen København K Denmark
6. Institute of Steppe of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) Orenburg Russia
7. Department of Ecosystem Services Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig Germany
8. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
9. Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) Nur‐Sultan Kazakhstan