1. Ralf Seppelt (ralf.seppelt@ufz.de), Michael Beckmann, Anna F. Cord, and Katharina Gerstner are affiliated with the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at the UFZ–Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany; RS is also with the Institute of Geoscience and Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany. Silvia Ceauşu, Stefan Klotz, and Marten Winter are affiliated with iDiv, t