About the Authors

Luigi Maiorano

luigi.maiorano@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Amori

Affiliation Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Rome, Italy

Massimo Capula

Affiliation Museo Civico di Zoologia, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Falcucci

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Monica Masi

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Montemaggiori

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Julien Pottier

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Achilleas Psomas

Affiliation Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Carlo Rondinini

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Danilo Russo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici, Italy

Niklaus E. Zimmermann

Affiliation Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Luigi Boitani

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Boitani, Antoine Guisan

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Antoine Guisan

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Boitani, Antoine Guisan

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM AF LB AG. Analyzed the data: LM GA MC AF MM AM AP DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM GA MC AF MM AM AP DR. Wrote the manuscript: LM GA MC AF MM AM JP AP CR DR NEZ LB AG.