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Competing Interests

The authors declare they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Carsten Meyer conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Walter Jetz conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Robert P Guralnick conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Susanne A Fritz conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Holger Kreft conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Funding

Funding was provided by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Universitätsbund Göttingen (C.M.). Support for W.J. and R.P.G. came from NSF (DBI 0960550, DEB 1026764, DEB1441737, DBI-1262600), NASA (NNX11AP72G) and the Yale Program in Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation. Support for S.A.F. came from the LOEWE funding program of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts. Funding for H.K. came from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative within the Free Floater Program at the University of Göttingen. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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