Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year-to-year asynchrony - Valencia, Enrique (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Departamento de Biologia, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica) ; De Bello, Francesco (University of South Bohemia. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Lepš, Jan (University of South Bohemia. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Galland, Thomas (University of South Bohemia. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; E-Vojtkó, Anna (University of South Bohemia. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Conti, Luisa (Czech Academy of Sciences. Institute of Botany) ; Danihelka, Jiří (Masaryk University. Department of Botany and Zoology (Czech Republic)) ; Dengler, Jürgen (Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (Switzerland)) ; Eldridge, David J. (University of New South Wales. Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Australia)) ; Estiarte, Marc (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; García-González, Ricardo (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología) ; Garnier, Eric (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (França)) ; Gómez, Daniel (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología) ; Harrison, Susan (University of California Davis. Department of Environmental Science and Policy (USA)) ; Herben, Tomas (Charles University. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Ibáñez, Ricardo (Universidad de Navarra. Departamento de Biología Ambiental) ; Jentsch, Anke (University of Bayreuth. Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research. Department of Disturbance Ecology (Germany)) ; Juergens, Norbert (University of Hamburg. Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology (Germany)) ; Kertész, Miklós (MTA Centre for Ecological Research (Hungary)) ; Klumpp, Katja (INRAE. Université Clermont Auvergne (France)) ; Louault, Frédérique (INRAE. Université Clermont Auvergne (France)) ; Marrs, Rob H. (University of Liverpool (UK)) ; Ónodi, Gábor (MTA Centre for Ecological Research (Hungary)) ; Pakeman, Robin J. (The James Hutton Institute (UK)) ; Pärtel, Meelis (University of Tartu. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences. Department of Botany (Estonia)) ; Peco, Begoña (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Instituto de Biodiversidad y Cambio Global) ; Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Rueda, Marta (Estación Biológica de Doñana. Departamento de Conservación Biológica) ; Schmidt, Wolfgang (University of Göttingen. Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones (Germany)) ; Schmiedel, Ute (University of Hamburg. Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology (Germany)) ; Schuetz, Martin (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest. Snow and Landscape Research) ; Skalova, Hana (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Institute of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Šmilauer, Petr (University of South Bohemia. Department of Ecosystem Biology (Czech Republic)) ; Šmilauerová, Marie (University of South Bohemia. Department of Botany (Czech Republic)) ; Smit, Christian (Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (The Netherlands)) ; Song, Ming-Hua (Chinese Academy of Sciences. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research) ; Stock, Martin (Wadden Sea National Park of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)) ; Val, James (University of New South Wales. Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Australia)) ; Vandvik, Vigdis (University of Bergen. Department of Biological Sciences (Norway)) ; Wesche, Karsten (Technische Universität Dresden. International Institute Zittau (Germany)) ; Woodcock, Ben A. (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)) ; Young, Truman P. (University of California. Department of Plant Sciences (USA)) ; Yu, Fei-Hai (Taizhou University. Institute of Wetland Ecology & Clone Ecology (China)) ; Zobel, Martin (University of Tartu. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences (Estonia)) ; Götzenberger, Lars (Czech Academy of Sciences. Institute of Botany)