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Introduction Ensuring stable and reliable ecological processes that maintain the natural world and nature's contributions to people is essential for global sustainability. One potential mechanism underpinning the stability of ecosystem processes, functions and services in the face of environmental change is response diversity. Response diversity describes variation in ecological responses to environmental conditions (Elmqvist et al. 2003, Mori et al.

One adjective commonly applied to postdoctoral scientists (postdocs) and their work is “invisible”: invisible scholars [1], invisible innovators, invisible mentors. These metaphors describe the reality of the labor performed by many postdocs; these tasks are often expected of them by the demands of the academic job market but seldom formally credited to them.

1 INTRODUCTION The ability to infer potential biotic interactions could serve as a significant breakthrough in our ability to conceptualize networks over large spatial scales (Hortal et al., 2015). Reliable inferences would not only boost our understanding of the structure of species interaction networks, but also increase the amount of information that can be used for biodiversity management. In a recent overview of the field of ecological network prediction, Strydom, Catchen, et al.