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Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Turin, 10133, Italy.
• ² National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, 90133, Italy.
• ³ Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Ave Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Environment and Planning, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.
• ⁵ CEAM Foundation (Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies) Parque Tecnológico, C/ Charles Darwin 14, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain.
• ⁶ Department of Ecology and IMEM, University of Alicante, Apdo. 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain.
• ⁷ Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Biometris, Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Wageningen University and Research, PO Box 16, 6700AA, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Department of Applied Mathematics and IMEM, University of Alicante, Apdo. 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain.
• ¹¹ Erasmus University College, Nieuwemarkt 1A, 3011 HP, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹² Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, PO Box 80115, 3508 TC, Utrecht, the Netherlands.