About the Authors

John C. Mittermeier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

john.mittermeier@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Uri Roll

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Thomas J. Matthews

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, United Kingdom, CE3C –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Univ. dos Açores–Depto de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal

Richard Grenyer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.