Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Martin Kurek, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States, Travis Drake, Florida State University, Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States; ETH Zurich, Tallahassee, CO, United States, Jose Mauro Sousa Moura, Federal University of Western Para, Santarem, Brazil, Robert Max Holmes, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Helena Osterholz, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany, Thorsten Dittmar, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Aron Stubbins, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, Savannah, GA, United States

Luciana Monteiro, Southern Cross Univerisity, Lismore, NSW, Australia, Humberto Marotta Dr., Universidade Federal de Fluminense, Geography Department, Niteroi - RJ, Brazil, Alex Enrich-Prast Dr., Change, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, Department of Environmental, Linkoping, Sweden, Sweden, Joseph M Smoak, Univ of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States and Christian J Sanders, National Marine Science Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, Coffs Harbour, Australia

Jiayuan Liao¹, Jianping Wu², Xiuzhi Chen³, Philippe Ciais⁴, S Joseph Wright⁵, Fabienne Maignan⁶, Wenping Yuan⁷, Haicheng Zhang⁸, Shilong Piao⁹, Yongxian Su², Damien Bonal¹⁰, Hui Liu¹¹, Xueqin Yang², Fanxi Gong², Yuhang Dai¹², Liyang Liu¹³, Haibo Lu¹², Wu Shengbiao¹⁴, Qing Ye¹¹ and Guoyi Zhou¹⁵, (1)Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (2)Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou, China, (3)Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States, (6)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Paris, France, (7)Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (8)Department Geoscience, Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium, (9)Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris Cedex 07, France, (11)South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China, (12)School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, (13)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (14)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences,, Hong Kong, China, (15)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Raphael Muamba Tshimanga, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC) & Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, Gode Bola Jr, University of Kinshasa, Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, Pierre M Kabuya JR, Rhodes University, Institute for Water Research, Grahamstown, South Africa, Landry Nkaba, University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center & Dpt. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo and Mark Trigg, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Luiz Eduardo Gomes¹, Christian J Sanders², Gabriel Nuto Nobrega³, Lucas Carneiro Vescovi⁴, Hermano Melo Queiroz⁵, J Boone Kauffman⁶, Tiago Ferreira⁵ and Angelo Fraga Bernardino⁷, (1)UFES Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil, (2)National Marine Science Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, Coffs Harbour, Australia, (3)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Departamento de Geoquímica, Niteroi, Brazil, (4)Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Department of Oceanography, Vitória, Brazil, (5)USP University of Sao Paulo, Soil Science, São Paulo, Brazil, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Department of Oceanography, Vitória, Brazil

Minju Jang¹, Hyungsub Kim¹, Yujin Roh², Raehyun Kim³, Asia Khamzina⁴, Rahayu Sukmaria binti Hj Sukri⁵, Faizah Metali⁵, Hazimah Hj Mohd Din⁵, Wardah Hj Tuah⁵, Noralinda Hj Ibrahim⁶ and Yowhan Son⁴, (1)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Institute of Ecology, Restoration Center for Endangered Species, Yeongyang, South Korea, (3)Korea Forest Research Institute, Global Forestry Division, Seoul, South Korea, (4)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (5)Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Environmental and Life Sciences Programme Faculty of Science, and Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Bandar, Brunei, (6)Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism, Brunei Forestry Department, Bandar, Brunei

Félicien Meunier¹, Michael Dietze², Marcos Longo³ and Hans Verbeeck¹, (1)Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Qianyu Li, Shawn Serbin, Kim S Ely, Julien Lamour, Kenneth J Davidson and Alistair Rogers, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States

Olga Kuricheva¹, Vitaly Avilov², Duy Ba Dinh³, Andrey N. Kuznetsov³ and Juliya Kurbatova⁴, (1)A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, V.N.Sukachev Laboratory of Biogeosciences, Moscow, Russia, (2)A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, V.N. Sukachev Laboratory of Biogeocenology, Moscow, Russia, (3)Joint Russian–Vietnamese Tropical Scientific Research and Technological Center, Hanoi, Vietnam, (4)A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Fenghui Yuan, University of Minnesota -Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, Daniel M Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Xiaofeng Xu, San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, Daniel T Roman, USDA Forest Service – Northern Research Station Grand Rapids, Northern Research Station Grand Rapids, MN, United States, Jeffrey D Wood, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States, Erik Lilleskov, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States, Lizardo Fachin, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru, Randall K Kolka, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, United States and Timothy J Griffis, Univ Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States

Xiuzhi Chen¹, Philippe Ciais², Fabienne Maignan^3,4, Nicolas Viovy², Ana Bastos⁵, Daniel S Goll⁴, Yuan Zhang⁴, Jin Wu⁶ and Pierre Gentine⁷, (1)Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (3)CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France, (4)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (5)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Dept. of Geography, Munich, Germany, (6)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (7)Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States

Santiago Botia¹, Michal Galkowski¹, Julia Marshall¹, Thomas Koch¹, Jost V. Lavric², David Walter³, Shujiro Komiya⁴, Gilberto Fisch⁵, Wouter Peters⁶, Meinrat O Andreae⁷, Martin Heimann⁸ and Christoph Gerbig¹, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes Department, Jena, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany, (5)Instituto de Aeronautica e Espaço, Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial (DCTA),, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (6)Wageningen University, Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen, Netherlands, (7)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (8)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Systems, Jena, Germany

Rong-Yu Gu and Min-Hui Lo, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

Philip Martin Fearnside, INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil

Toby Marthews, CEH Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Simon J Dadson, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Doug Clark, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, Eleanor Blyth, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, Garry Hayman, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom and Dai Yamazaki, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Sciences, Tokyo, Japan