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Humans are increasing the number, magnitude and pace of environmental stressors – drivers that reduce growth and biomass – on ecological communities (IPCC 2013), altering species persistence and community composition. For example, the intensification of existing stressors (e.g., drought; Cook, Miller, & Seager, 2009), introduction of novel stressors (e.g., N deposition; Stevens et al., 2015) and alterations of evolutionarily important stress regimes (e.g., disturbance regimes such as fire, grazing; Brooker & Callaghan, 1998; IPCC 2013) Received: 24 July 2017 | Accepted: 9 March 2018 DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12635