About the Authors

Paul Leadley

paul.leadley@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

David Obura

Affiliation CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya

Emma Archer

Affiliation Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Mark John Costello

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway

Liliana M. Dávalos

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Franz Essl

Affiliation Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andrew Hansen

Affiliation Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Shizuka Hashimoto

Affiliation Department of Ecosystem Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

David Leclère

Affiliation Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Akira S. Mori

Affiliation Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Emily Nicholson

Affiliation School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

Andy Purvis

Affiliation Biodiversity Change theme, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Carlo Rondinini

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Lynne Shannon

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Xiaoli Shen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Eren Turak

Affiliation NSW Department of Planning, Industry and the Environment, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Peter H. Verburg

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Piero Visconti

Affiliation Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.