A global remote sensing mission to detect and predict plant functional biodiversity change
						 
					
					
					
	Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Walter Jetz, Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States, Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, John Arthur Gamon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, Sarah E Hobbie, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, United States, Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States and  NCEAS Biodiversity from Space Working Group; Cedar Creek Biodiversity Team