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Associate Professor Will Cornwell
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Will Cornwell

Science
School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

ABOUT ME

Biography

My research interests lie at the intersection of plant eco-physiology, community ecology and ecosystem ecology. I am especially interested in using basic ecological tools, especially functional traits, to understand the effects of climate change on terrestrial biodiversity.

Education

  • PhD in Biological Sciences (Stanford, 2006)
  • MPhil Plant Sciences, (Cambridge, 2001)
  • BSci Natural Resources (Cornell, 2000)

RESEARCH

 

Research Goals

There are four major areas that I am currently working on:

  • Climate change effects on terrestrial vegetation
  • Plant functional variation effects on the carbon cycle
  • Assembly of plant communities, especially considering human impacts via climate change
  • Tempo and mode of evolution of plant traits

Supervision Opportunities/Areas

I am especially interested in finding students that are both into ecology and quantitative tools (esp. R). If you are into both of those things and looking for an research project, get in touch!
Phone
50028
E-mail
w.cornwell@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2006
    Cornwell W, 2006, Causes and consequences of functional trait diversity: plant community assembly and leaf decomposition, Stanford University
  • Book Chapters | 2010
    Vellend M; Cornwell WK; Magnuson-Ford K; Mooers A, 2010, 'Measuring phylogenetic biodiversity', in Magurran AE; McGill B (ed.), Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Coevolutionary legacies for plant decomposition', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38, pp. 44 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.008
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Experimental evidence that leaf litter decomposability and flammability are decoupled across gymnosperm species', Journal of Ecology, 111, pp. 761 - 772, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14033
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems', Ecology, 104, pp. e4035, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4035
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Photographs as an essential biodiversity resource: drivers of gaps in the vascular plant photographic record', New Phytologist, 238, pp. 1685 - 1694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18813
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21, pp. 167 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2604
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change', Journal of Biogeography, 50, pp. 406 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14542
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Trait-climate relationships within and among taxa using machine learning and herbarium specimens.', Am J Bot, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16167
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Using citizen science to measure recolonisation of birds after the Australian 2019–2020 mega-fires', Austral Ecology, 48, pp. 31 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13105
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Continental-scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies', Ecography, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05902
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Data integration will form the basis of future abundance estimates', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, pp. e2117920119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117920119
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Initial wood trait variation overwhelms endophyte community effects for explaining decay trajectories', Functional Ecology, 36, pp. 1243 - 1257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14025
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Quantifying research interests in 7,521 mammalian species with h-index: a case study', GigaScience, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac074
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Rainforest bird communities threatened by extreme fire', Global Ecology and Conservation, 33, pp. e01985 - e01985, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01985
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates', Science, 377, pp. 1440 - 1444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abo3856
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier', PLoS Biology, 20, pp. e3001843, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset', Scientific Data, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Conservation birding: A quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations', Biological Conservation, 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108912
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Frequent consumption of sap suggests that omnivory is widespread among Australian geckos', Science of Nature, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01720-6
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Global abundance estimates for 9,700 bird species', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, pp. e2023170118 - e2023170118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023170118
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities', Biodiversity and Conservation, 30, pp. 217 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02088-1
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Impacts of grazing by kangaroos and rabbits on vegetation and soils in a semi-arid conservation reserve', Journal of Arid Environments, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104526
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?', Ecology and Evolution, 11, pp. 4071 - 4083, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7307
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Lichens buffer tundra microclimate more than the expanding shrub Betula nana', Annals of Botany, 128, pp. 407 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab041
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Measuring reflectance of tiny organisms: The promise of species level biocrust remote sensing', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. 2174 - 2183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13690
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Mistletoes Facilitate a Desert Herbivore by Improving the Quality of Shade', Ecosystems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00590-9
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Rapidly mapping fire effects on biodiversity at a large-scale using citizen science', Science of the Total Environment, 755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142348
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi-temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator', Landscape Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01206-w
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Shifts in fine root traits within and among species along a fine-scale hydrological gradient', Annals of Botany, 127, pp. 473 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa175
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data', BioScience, 71, pp. 55 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa131
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Tissue chemistry of biocrust species along an aridity gradient and comparison to vascular plant leaves', Functional Ecology, 35, pp. 2604 - 2614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13903
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle', , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/9m8wj
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle', Journal of Biogeography, 48, pp. 1503 - 1517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14093
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'A continental measure of urbanness predicts avian response to local urbanization', Ecography, 43, pp. 528 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04863
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space', Scientific Data, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'A systematic review of transplant experiments in lichens and bryophytes', Bryologist, 123, pp. 444 - 454
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Author Correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space (Scientific Data, (2020), 7, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7)', Scientific Data, 7, pp. 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0420-z
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Environmental cues for dispersal in a filamentous fungus in simulated islands', Oikos, 129, pp. 1084 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.07000
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome', Nature Communications, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Rapidly mapping fire effects on biodiversity at a large-scale using citizen science', , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vc6ry
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Sex and Power: sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.23.106146
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', eLife, 9, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63170
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access', Global Change Biology, 26, pp. 119 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'The role of climate niche, geofloristic history, habitat preference, and allometry on wood density within a california plant community', Forests, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11010105
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Using citizen science to measure recolonisation of birds after the Australian 2019-20 mega-fires', , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ejd8f
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'When and where soil is important to modify the carbon and water economy of leaves', New Phytologist, 228, pp. 121 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16702
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Widespread short-term persistence of frog species after the 2019–2020 bushfires in eastern Australia revealed by citizen science', Conservation Science and Practice, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.287
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'A global growth-form database for 143,616 vascular plant species', Ecology, 100, pp. e02614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2614
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi', ISME Journal, 13, pp. 873 - 884, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0314-7
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Continental-scale urbanness predicts local-scale responses to urbanization', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ky2hu
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Dam Effect on Soil Nutrients and Potentially Toxic Metals in a Reservoir Riparian Zone', Clean - Soil, Air, Water, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/clen.201700497
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'DataStorr: A workflow and package for delivering successive versions of’evolving data’ directly into R', GigaScience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz035
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Finding fungal ecological strategies: Is recycling an option?', Fungal Ecology, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/tkxj2
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'From dangerous branches to urban banyan: Facilitating aerial root growth of Ficus rubiginosa', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0226845, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226845
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Fungal functional ecology: Bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi', ExoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/a7f6g
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Generalists are the most urban-tolerant of birds: a phylogenetically controlled analysis of ecological and life history traits using a novel continuous measure of bird responses to urbanization', Oikos, 128, pp. 845 - 858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.06158
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats', Ecology, 100, pp. e02790, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2790
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1,581 cities', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ur4fe
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling', PLoS Biology, 17, pp. e3000357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000357
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Natural and Regenerated Saltmarshes Exhibit Similar Soil and Belowground Organic Carbon Stocks, Root Production and Soil Respiration', Ecosystems, 22, pp. 1803 - 1822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00373-x
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Optimizing future biodiversity sampling by citizen scientists', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, pp. 20191487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1487
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Pelagic citizen science data reveal declines of seabirds off south-eastern Australia', Biological Conservation, 235, pp. 226 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.007
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Relationships between mycorrhizal type and leaf flammability in the Australian flora', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/u7bhv
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Strong restrictions on the trait range of co-occurring species in the newly created riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China', Journal of Plant Ecology, 12, pp. 825 - 833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz016
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, pp. 78 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12783
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Using citizen science data to define and track restoration targets in urban areas', Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, pp. 1998 - 2006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13421
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'What we (don't) know about global plant diversity', Ecography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04481
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'When to cut your losses: Dispersal allocation in an asexual filamentous fungus in response to competition', Ecology and Evolution, 9, pp. 4129 - 4137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5041
    Journal articles | 2018
    Bjorkman AD; Myers-Smith IH; Elmendorf SC; Normand S; Rüger N; Beck PS A; Blach-Overgaard A; Blok D; Cornelissen JH C; Forbes BC; Georges D; Goetz SJ; Guay KC; Henry GH R; HilleRisLambers J; Hollister RD; Karger DN; Kattge J; Manning P; Prevéy JS; Rixen C; Schaepman-Strub G; Thomas HJ D; Vellend M; Wilmking M; Wipf S; Carbognani M; Hermanutz L; Lévesque E; Molau U; Petraglia A; Soudzilovskaia NA; Spasojevic MJ; Tomaselli M; Vowles T; Alatalo JM; Alexander HD; Anadon-Rosell A; Angers-Blondin S; Beest MT; Berner L; Björk RG; Buchwal A; Buras A; Christie K; Cooper EJ; Dullinger S; Elberling B; Eskelinen A; Frei ER; Grau O; Grogan P; Hallinger M; Harper KA; Heijmans MM P D; Hudson J; Hülber K; Iturrate-Garcia M; Iversen CM; Jaroszynska F; Johnstone JF; Jørgensen RH; Kaarlejärvi E; Klady R; Kuleza S; Kulonen A; Lamarque LJ; Lantz T; Little CJ; Speed JD M; Michelsen A; Milbau A; Nabe-Nielsen J; Nielsen SS; Ninot JM; Oberbauer SF; Olofsson J; Onipchenko VG; Rumpf SB; Semenchuk P; Shetti R; Collier LS; Street LE; Suding KN; Tape KD; Trant A; Treier UA; Tremblay JP; Tremblay M; Venn S; Weijers S; Zamin T; Boulanger-Lapointe N; Gould WA; Hik DS; Hofgaard A; Jónsdóttir IS; Jorgenson J; Klein J; Magnusson B, 2018, 'Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome', Nature, 562, pp. 57 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cornwell WK; Wright IJ; Turner J; Maire V; Barbour MM; Cernusak LA; Dawson T; Ellsworth D; Farquhar GD; Griffiths H; Keitel C; Knohl A; Reich PB; Williams DG; Bhaskar R; Cornelissen JH C; Richards A; Schmidt S; Valladares F; Körner C; Schulze ED; Buchmann N; Santiago LS, 2018, 'Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C3 plants worldwide', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27, pp. 1056 - 1067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12764
    Journal articles | 2018
    Dixson BJ W; Sherlock JM; Cornwell WK; Kasumovic MM, 2018, 'Contest competition and men's facial hair: beards may not provide advantages in combat', Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, pp. 147 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.11.004
    Journal articles | 2018
    Werner GD A; Cornelissen JH C; Cornwell WK; Soudzilovskaia NA; Kattge J; West SA; Toby Kiers E, 2018, 'Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, pp. 5229 - 5234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721629115
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zanne AE; Pearse WD; Cornwell WK; McGlinn DJ; Wright IJ; Uyeda JC, 2018, 'Functional biogeography of angiosperms: life at the extremes', New Phytologist, 218, pp. 1697 - 1709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.15114
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Hungry and thirsty: Effects of CO2 and limited water availability on plant performance', Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2018.11.006
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown', Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/242834
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'What we (don’t) know about global plant diversity', What we (don't) know about global plant diversity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/404376
    Journal articles | 2017
    Bastias CC; Fortunel C; Valladares F; Baraloto C; Benavides R; Cornwell W; Markesteijn L; De Oliveira AA; Sansevero JB B; Vaz MC; Kraft NJ B, 2017, 'Intraspecific leaf trait variability along a boreal-to-tropical community diversity gradient', PLoS ONE, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172495
    Journal articles | 2017
    Chen SC; Cornwell WK; Zhang HX; Moles AT, 2017, 'Plants show more flesh in the tropics: variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients', Ecography, 40, pp. 531 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02010
    Journal articles | 2017
    Cornelissen JH C; Grootemaat S; Verheijen LM; Cornwell WK; van Bodegom PM; van der Wal R; Aerts R, 2017, 'Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?', New Phytologist, 216, pp. 653 - 669, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14766
    Journal articles | 2017
    Cornwell W; Nakagawa S, 2017, 'Phylogenetic comparative methods', Current Biology, 27, pp. R333 - R336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.049
    Journal articles | 2017
    Douma JC; Cornwell WK; van Bodegom PM, 2017, 'A new metric to assess the predictive accuracy of multinomial land cover models', Journal of Biogeography, 44, pp. 1212 - 1224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12983
    Journal articles | 2017
    Pierce S; Negreiros D; Cerabolini BE L; Kattge J; Díaz S; Kleyer M; Shipley B; Wright SJ; Soudzilovskaia NA; Onipchenko VG; van Bodegom PM; Frenette-Dussault C; Weiher E; Pinho BX; Cornelissen JH C; Grime JP; Thompson K; Hunt R; Wilson PJ; Buffa G; Nyakunga OC; Reich PB; Caccianiga M; Mangili F; Ceriani RM; Luzzaro A; Brusa G; Siefert A; Barbosa NP U; Chapin FS; Cornwell WK; Fang J; Fernandes GW; Garnier E; Le Stradic S; Peñuelas J; Melo FP L; Slaviero A; Tabarelli M; Tampucci D, 2017, 'A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide', Functional Ecology, 31, pp. 444 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12722
    Journal articles | 2017
    Powell JR; Riley RC; Cornwell W, 2017, 'Relationships between mycorrhizal type and leaf flammability in the Australian flora', Pedobiologia, 65, pp. 43 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.07.001
    Journal articles | 2017
    Smith JA; Cornwell WK; Lowry MB; Suthers IM, 2017, 'Modelling the distribution of fish around an artificial reef', Marine and Freshwater Research, 68, pp. 1955 - 1964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF16019
    Journal articles | 2017
    Temme AA; Liu JC; van Hal J; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JH C; Aerts R, 2017, 'Increases in CO2 from past low to future high levels result in “slower” strategies on the leaf economic spectrum', Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 29, pp. 41 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2017.11.003
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wang H; Prentice IC; Keenan TF; Davis TW; Wright IJ; Cornwell WK; Evans BJ; Peng C, 2017, 'Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants /704/47 /704/158/851 letter', Nature Plants, 3, pp. 734 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0006-8
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply)', Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply), http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3401v1
    Journal articles | 2016
    Liu J-C; Temme AA; Cornwell WK; van Logtestijn RS P; Aerts R; Cornelissen JH C, 2016, 'Does plant size affect growth responses to water availability at glacial, modern and future CO2 concentrations?', Ecological Research, 31, pp. 213 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11284-015-1330-y
    Journal articles | 2016
    Maherali H; Oberle B; Stevens PF; Cornwell WK; McGlinn DJ, 2016, 'Mutualism persistence and abandonment during the evolution of the mycorrhizal symbiosis', American Naturalist, 188, pp. E113 - E125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/688675
    Journal articles | 2016
    Pennell MW; FitzJohn RG; Cornwell WK, 2016, 'A simple approach for maximizing the overlap of phylogenetic and comparative data', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 751 - 758, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12517
    Journal articles | 2016
    Ye D; Liu G; Song YB; Cornwell WK; Dong M; Cornelissen JH C, 2016, 'Strong but diverging clonality - Climate relationships of different plant clades explain weak overall pattern across China', Scientific Reports, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26850
    Journal articles | 2016
    Zhao W; Cornwell WK; van Pomeren M; van Logtestijn RS P; Cornelissen JH C, 2016, 'Species mixture effects on flammability across plant phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size and the special role for non-Pinus Pinaceae', Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 8223 - 8234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2451
    Journal articles | 2015
    Ackerly DD; Cornwell WK; Weiss SB; Flint LE; Flint AL, 2015, 'A geographic mosaic of climate change impacts on terrestrial vegetation: Which areas are most at risk?', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130629
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chardon NI; Cornwell WK; Flint LE; Flint AL; Ackerly DD, 2015, 'Topographic, latitudinal and climatic distribution of Pinus coulteri: Geographic range limits are not at the edge of the climate envelope', Ecography, 38, pp. 590 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00780
    Journal articles | 2015
    Cornwell WK; Elvira A; van Kempen L; van Logtestijn RS P; Aptroot A; Cornelissen JH C, 2015, 'Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: The importance of litter particle size', New Phytologist, 206, pp. 672 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13317
    Journal articles | 2015
    Cornwell WK, 2015, 'Toward a better understanding of variation in the amount of leaf area in vegetation', Journal of Vegetation Science, 26, pp. 1028 - 1029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12343
    Journal articles | 2015
    Grootemaat S; Wright IJ; van Bodegom PM; Cornelissen JH C; Cornwell WK, 2015, 'Burn or rot: Leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species', Functional Ecology, 29, pp. 1486 - 1497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12449
    Journal articles | 2015
    Pan X; Song YB; Liu GF; Hu YK; Ye XH; Cornwell WK; Prinzing A; Dong M; Cornelissen JH C, 2015, 'Functional traits drive the contribution of solar radiation to leaf litter decomposition among multiple arid-zone species', Scientific Reports, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13217
    Journal articles | 2015
    Pennell MW; Fitzjohn RG; Cornwell WK; Harmon LJ, 2015, 'Model adequacy and the macroevolution of angiosperm functional traits', American Naturalist, 186, pp. E33 - E50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/682022
    Journal articles | 2015
    Soudzilovskaia NA; Douma JC; Akhmetzhanova AA; van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Moens EJ; Treseder KK; Tibbett M; Wang YP; Cornelissen JH C, 2015, 'Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, pp. 371 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12272
    Journal articles | 2015
    Temme AA; Liu JC; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JH C; Aerts R, 2015, 'Winners always win: Growth of a wide range of plant species from low to future high CO2', Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 4949 - 4961, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1687
    Journal articles | 2015
    Werner GD A; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JH C; Kiers ET, 2015, 'Evolutionary signals of symbiotic persistence in the legume-rhizobia mutualism', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, pp. 10262 - 10269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1424030112
    Journal articles | 2015
    Ye X; Tang S; Cornwell WK; Gao S; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JH C, 2015, 'Impact of land-use on carbon storage as dependent on soil texture: Evidence from a desertified dryland using repeated paired sampling design', Journal of Environmental Management, 150, pp. 489 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.12.039
    Journal articles | 2015
    Ye XH; Pan X; Cornwell WK; Gao SQ; Dong M; Cornelissen JH C, 2015, 'Divergence of above- and belowground C and N pool within predominant plant species along two precipitation gradients in North China', Biogeosciences, 12, pp. 457 - 465, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-457-2015
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; Fitzjohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O'Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; Royer DL; Soltis DE; Stevens PF; Westoby M; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Bertin RI; Calaminus A; Govaerts R; Hemmings F; Leishman MR; Oleksyn J; Soltis PS; Swenson NG; Warman L; Beaulieu JM, 2015, 'Erratum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments (Nature (2014) 506 (89-92) (Doi:10.1038/nature12872))', Nature, 521, pp. 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14371
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; Fitzjohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O'Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; Royer DL; Soltis DE; Stevens PF; Westoby M; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Bertin RI; Calaminus A; Govaerts R; Hemmings F; Leishman MR; Oleksyn J; Soltis PS; Swenson NG; Warman L; Beaulieu JM, 2015, 'Zanne et al. reply', Nature, 521, pp. E6 - E7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14394
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Decomposition of 51 semidesert species from wide-ranging phylogeny is faster in standing and sand-buried than in surface leaf litters: implications for carbon and nutrient dynamics', Plant and Soil, 396, pp. 175 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2595-1
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, pp. 706 - 717, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12296
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species', Journal of Ecology, 103, pp. 1214 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12427
    Journal articles | 2014
    Cornelissen JH C; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'The Tree of Life in ecosystems: Evolution of plant effects on carbon and nutrient cycling', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 269 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12217
    Journal articles | 2014
    Cornwell WK; Westoby M; Falster DS; Fitzjohn RG; O'Meara BC; Pennell MW; McGlinn DJ; Eastman JM; Moles AT; Reich PB; Tank DC; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Beaulieu JM; Kooyman RM; Leishman MR; Miller ET; Niinemets U; Oleksyn J; Ordonez A; Royer DL; Smith SA; Stevens PF; Warman L; Wilf P; Zanne AE, 2014, 'Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 345 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12208
    Journal articles | 2014
    Fitzjohn RG; Pennell MW; Zanne AE; Stevens PF; Tank DC; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'How much of the world is woody?', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 1266 - 1272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12260
    Journal articles | 2014
    Krause S; Van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Bodelier PL E, 2014, 'Weak phylogenetic signal in physiological traits of methane-oxidizing bacteria', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27, pp. 1240 - 1247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12401
    Journal articles | 2014
    Letten AD; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'Trees, branches and (square) roots: why evolutionary relatedness is not linearly related to functional distance', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. n/a - n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12237
    Journal articles | 2014
    Liu G; Cornwell WK; Pan X; Cao K; Ye X; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JH C, 2014, 'Understanding the ecosystem implications of the angiosperm rise to dominance: Leaf litter decomposability among magnoliids and other basal angiosperms', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 337 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12192
    Journal articles | 2014
    Pan X; Cornelissen JH C; Zhao WW; Liu GF; Hu YK; Prinzing A; Dong M; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'Experimental evidence that the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model best describes the evolution of leaf litter decomposability', Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 3339 - 3349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1115
    Journal articles | 2014
    Pietsch KA; Ogle K; Cornelissen JH C; Cornwell WK; Bönisch G; Craine JM; Jackson BG; Kattge J; Peltzer DA; Penuelas J; Reich PB; Wardle DA; Weedon JT; Wright IJ; Zanne AE; Wirth C, 2014, 'Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: The role of functional traits within and across plant organs', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, pp. 1046 - 1057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12172
    Journal articles | 2014
    Valladares F; Matesanz S; Guilhaumon F; Araújo MB; Balaguer L; Benito-Garzón M; Cornwell W; Gianoli E; van Kleunen M; Naya DE; Nicotra AB; Poorter H; Zavala MA, 2014, 'The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change', Ecology Letters, 17, pp. 1351 - 1364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12348
    Journal articles | 2014
    Werner GD A; Cornwell WK; Sprent JI; Kattge J; Kiers ET, 2014, 'A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms', Nature Communications, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5087
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zhao W; Blauw LG; van Logtestijn RS P; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JH C, 2014, 'Interactions between fine wood decomposition and flammability', Forests, 5, pp. 827 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f5040827
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments', Nature, 514, pp. 394 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13842
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments', Nature, 506, pp. 89 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12872
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Which is a better predictor of plant traits: Temperature or precipitation?', Journal of Vegetation Science, 25, pp. 1167 - 1180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12190
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'A broader perspective on plant domestication and nutrient and carbon cycling', New Phytologist, 198, pp. 331 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.12219
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Abundance, rarity and invasion debt among exotic species in a patchy ecosystem', Biological invasions, 15, pp. 707 - 716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-012-0320-z
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: Tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?', New Phytologist, 198, pp. 252 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.12116
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Decomposition trajectories of diverse litter types: a model selection analysis', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 173 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12138
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Growth form and functional traits influence response of woody plants to fragmentation of subtropical rain forest', Conservation Biology, in press, pp. 1468 - 1477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12088
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Leaf traits within communities: Context may affect the mapping of traits to function', Ecology, 94, pp. 1893 - 1897, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1602.1
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Linking litter decomposition of above-and below-ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide', Journal of Ecology, 101, pp. 943 - 952, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12092
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Meta-analysis reveals profound responses of plant traits to glacial CO2 levels', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 4525 - 4535, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.836
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide', Australian Journal of Botany, 61, pp. 167 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT12225
    Journal articles | 2012
    Akhmetzhanova AA; Soudzilovskaia NA; Onipchenko VG; Cornwell WK; Agafonov VA; Selivanov IA; Cornelissen JH C, 2012, 'A rediscovered treasure: mycorrhizal intensity database for 3000 vascular plant species across the former Soviet Union: Ecological Archives E093-059', Ecology, 93, pp. 689 - 690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1749.1
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'An evolutionary attractor model for sapwood cross section in relation to leaf area', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 303, pp. 98 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.03.008
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Australian tropical and subtropical rain forest community assembly: phylogeny, functional biogeography, and environmental gradients', Biotropica, 44, pp. 668 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00861.x
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution', Biogeosciences, 9, pp. 565 - 576, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-565-2012
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Species composition and fire: non-additive mixture effects on ground fuel flammability', Frontiers in plant science, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2012.00063
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20, pp. 755 - 765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00651.x
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20, pp. 707 - 716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes', New Phytologist, 191, pp. 777 - 788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03732.x
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'TRY - a global database of plant traits', Global Change Biology, 17, pp. 2905 - 2935, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Taller and larger: shifts in Arctic tundra leaf traits after 16 years of experimental warming', Global Change Biology, 17, pp. 1013 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02294.x
    Journal articles | 2010
    Sack L; Cornwell WK; Santiago LS; Barbour MM; Choat B; Evans JR; Munns R; Nicotra A, 2010, 'A unique web resource for physiology, ecology and the environmental sciences: PrometheusWiki', Functional Plant Biology, 37, pp. 687 - 693, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP10097
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants', Journal of Ecology, 98, pp. 814 - 821, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01662.x
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology', Bioinformatics, 26, pp. 1463 - 1464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq166
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation', Journal of Ecology, 98, pp. 517 - 525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01642.x
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography', Diversity and Distributions, 16, pp. 476 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00654.x
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California', Ecological Monographs, 79, pp. 109 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1134.1
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?', Ecology Letters, 12, pp. 45 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01259.x
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?', Global Change Biology, 15, pp. 2431 - 2449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01916.x
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally 13C enriched compared with leaves in C3 plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses', Functional Plant Biology, 36, pp. 199 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP08216
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide', Ecology Letters, 11, pp. 1065 - 1071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01219.x
    Journal articles | 2007
    Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JH; Amatangelo K; Dorrepaal E; Eviner V; Godoy O; Hobbie SE; Hoorens B; Kurokawa H; Perez Harguindeguy N; others , 2007, 'The leaf economic spectrum drives litter decomposition within regional floras worldwide', AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 1, pp. 04 - 04
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within-and among-community components', Ecology Letters, 10, pp. 135 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.01006.x
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Adjustment of structure and function of Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha at high vs. low precipitation', Functional Ecology, 21, pp. 1063 - 1071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01323.x
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities', The American Naturalist, 170, pp. 271 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/519400
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume', Ecology, 87, pp. 1465 - 1471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1465:ATTFHF]2.0.CO;2
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'Wood density and vessel traits as distinct correlates of ecological strategy in 51 California coast range angiosperms', New Phytologist, 170, pp. 807 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01712.x
    Journal articles | 2003
    2003, 'Regional and local patterns in plant species richness with respect to resource availability', Oikos, 100, pp. 417 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11697.x
    Journal articles | 2002
    2002, 'Interactions between herbivorous fishes and limiting nutrients in a tropical stream ecosystem', Ecology, 83, pp. 1831 - 1844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1831:IBHFAL]2.0.CO;2
    Journal articles | 2001
    2001, 'Occurrence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a phosphorus-poor wetland and mycorrhizal response to phosphorus fertilization', American Journal of Botany, 88, pp. 1824 - 1829
  • Preprints | 2023
    2023, Insects pollinated flowering plants for most of angiosperm evolutionary history, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526530
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1242094/v1
    Preprints | 2021
    2021, Complex environments alter competitive dynamics in fungi, , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/pf3kq
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    2021, Quantifying research interests in 7,521 mammalian species with h-index: a case study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/gd7cv
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Ackerly D; Cornwell WK; Weiss SB; Branciforte R; Flint LE; Flint AL, 2010, 'Climate change impacts on vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Area: a novel approach to vulnerability analysis', Vol. 1, pp. 07 - 07