1 Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. srivast@zoology.ubc.ca.
2 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
3 Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
4 National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
5 Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
6 Department of Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
7 Synthesis Centre on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (SinBiose), Brasília, Brazil.
8 John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
9 Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB), Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité, Montpellier, France.
10 MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France.
11 Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
12 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
13 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
14 Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.