1 Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. jingyiding@bnu.edu.cn.
3 Department of Planning and Environment, Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia.
4 Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
5 Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Seville, Spain.
6 Schools of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
7 Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
9 Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden.
10 Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain.
11 Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
12 Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
13 Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
14 Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
15 Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA), CSIC, Campus UAL, Almería, Spain.
16 Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran.
17 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina.
18 Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
19 Laboratoire Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (Biodev), Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algeria.
20 Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
21 Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia.
22 Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
23 Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
24 Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
25 School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
26 Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
27 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina.
28 Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China.
29 Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China.
30 Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
31 Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
32 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
33 Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
34 Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela.
35 Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
36 Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
37 Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
38 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
39 Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
40 HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary.
41 University of York, York, UK.
42 Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain.
43 Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
44 Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
45 Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
46 Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
47 Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
48 Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina.
49 Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
50 Universidad Nacional de Luján-CONICET, Luján, Argentina.
51 Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina.
52 Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
53 Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
54 Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
55 cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
56 Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
57 State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
58 Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
59 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
60 Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
61 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
62 Gobabeb - Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia.
63 Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRAE/UPEC, Bondy, France.
64 School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
65 Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain.
66 Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, University of Limpopo, Mankweng, South Africa.
67 INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain.
68 US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
69 Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
70 Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT, USA.
71 Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina.
72 Normandie Universite, Unirouen, Inrae, Ecodiv, Rouen, France.
73 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
74 US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA.
75 Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
76 Instituto de Ecología, A.C, Chihuahua, Mexico.
77 Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
78 Al Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine.
79 Mara Research Station, Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Makhado, South Africa.
80 The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel.
81 Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel.
82 Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.
83 Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
84 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA.
85 Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
86 Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
87 Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
88 Kaye College of Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
89 State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.
90 Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.