- Bao Yang
(a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;; b Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;)
- Chun Qin
(a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;)
- Achim Bräuning
(c Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany;)
- Timothy J. Osborn
(d Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom;)
- Valerie Trouet
(e Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721;)
- Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
(f Department of History, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;; g Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;; h Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 752 38 Uppsala, Sweden;)
- Jan Esper
(i Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany;)
- Lea Schneider
(j Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University, D-35390 Giessen, Germany;)
- Jussi Grießinger
(c Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany;)
- Ulf Büntgen
(k Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EN Cambridge, United Kingdom;; l Dendrosciences Group, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;; m Czech Globe Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, 60300 Brno, Czech Republic;; n Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic;)
- Sergio Rossi
(o Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada;)
- Guanghui Dong
(p College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;)
- Mi Yan
(q Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment of Ministry of Education, School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;)
- Liang Ning
(q Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment of Ministry of Education, School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;)
- Jianglin Wang
(a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;)
- Xiaofeng Wang
(a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;)
- Beixi Fan
(a Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;)
- Suming Wang
(r State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;)
- Jürg Luterbacher
(s Science and Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland;)
- Edward R. Cook
(t Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964;)
- Nils Chr. Stenseth
(u Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway)