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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden torgny.nasholm@slu.se.
• ² Division of Environmental Science & Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
• ³ Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
• ⁴ Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
• ⁵ Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria.