Acknowledgements
The first author gratefully acknowledges the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, grant number 2010/11459) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq - 233206/2014-0) for financial support. FRM thanks CNPq for the productivity grants (process code 306110/2019-9). The first author also thanks Somayeh Shadkam for providing useful comments on the first draft of the manuscript. We declare no conflict of interest. We thank all the contributors for the invaluable data provided to the BIEN database (http://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/people/data‐contributors/).