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Affiliations

• ¹ Water Management and Systems Research, USDA-ARS, 2150 Center Ave, Build D, Suite 320, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA.
• ² Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
• ³ Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Ulm, 89081, Germany.
• ⁴ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia.
• ⁵ School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia.
• ⁶ UMR547 PIAF, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63100, France.
• ⁷ UMR547 PIAF, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Université, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France.
• ⁸ UMR BIOGECO, University of Bordeaux, INRA, Talence, F-33450, France.
• ⁹ Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, 93311, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA.
• ¹² Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden University, PO Box 9517, Leiden, 2300RA, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada.
• ¹⁴ CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain.
• ¹⁵ Université Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain.
• ¹⁶ Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr. 15, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria.
• ¹⁷ Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
• ¹⁸ Dipartimento Scienze della Vita, Università Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, Trieste, 34127, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd Street NW, Suite 6000, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.