By Associate Professor Will Cornwell

Journal articles

Hudson JMG; Henry GHR; Cornwell WK, 2011, 'Taller and larger: shifts in Arctic tundra leaf traits after 16 years of experimental warming', Global Change Biology, 17, pp. 1013 - 1021

Kattge J; Diaz S; Lavorel S; Prentice I; Leadley P; Bonisch G; Garnier E; Westoby M; Reich P; Wright IJ; Cornelissen JHC; Violle C; Harrison SP; Van bodegom PM; Reichstein M; Enquist BJ; Soudzilovskaia NA; Ackerly D; Anand M; Atkin O; Bahn M; Baker TR; Baldocchi D; Bekker R; Blanco CC; Blonder B; Bond WJ; Bradstock R; Bunker DE; Casanoves F; Cavender-bares J; Chambers JQ; Chapin FS; Chave J; Coomes D; Cornwell WK; Craine JM; Dobrin BH; Duarte L; Durka W; Elser J; Esser G; Estiarte M; Fagan WF; Fang J; Fernandez-mendez F; Fidelis A; Finegan B; Flores O; Ford H; Frank D; Freschet GT; Fyllas NM; Gallagher RV; Green WA; Gutierrez AG; Hickler T; Higgins SI; Hodgson JG; Jalili A; Jansen S; Joly CA; Kerkhoff AJ; Kirkup D; Kitajima K; Kleyer M; Klotz S; Knops JMH; Kramer K; Kuhn I; Kurokawa H; Laughlin D; Lee TD; Leishman M; Lens F; Lenz T; Lewis SL; Lloyd J; Llusia J; Louault F; Ma S; Mahecha MD; Manning P; Massad T; Medlyn BE; Messier J; Moles AT; Muller S; Nadrowski K; Naeem S; Niinemets U; Nollet S; Nuske A; Ogaya R; Oleksyn J; Onipchenko VG; Onoda Y; Ordonez J; Overbeck G; Ozinga WA; Patino S; Paula S; Pausas JG; Penuelas J; Phillips O; Pillar V; Poorter H; Poorter L; Poschlod P; Prinzing A; Proulx R; Rammig A; Reinsch S; Reu B; Sack L; Salgado-negret B; Sardans J; Shiodera S; Shipley B; Siefert A; Sosinski E; Soussana JF; Swaine E; Swenson N; Thompson K; Thornton P; Waldram M; Weiher E; White MJ; White S; Wright SJ; Yguel B; Zaehle S; Zanne A; Wirth C, 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

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

Cornwell WK; Ackerly DD, 2010, 'A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants', Journal of Ecology, 98, pp. 814 - 821

Kembel SW; Cowan PD; Helmus MR; Cornwell WK; Morlon H; Ackerly DD; Blomberg SP; Webb CO, 2010, 'Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology', Bioinformatics, 26, pp. 1463 - 1464

Kooyman R; Cornwell W; Westoby M, 2010, 'Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation', Journal of Ecology, 98, pp. 517 - 525

Ackerly DD; Loarie SR; Cornwell WK; Weiss SB; Hamilton H; Branciforte R; Kraft NJB, 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

Cornwell WK; Ackerly DD, 2009, 'Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California', Ecological Monographs, 79, pp. 109 - 126

Weedon JT; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Zanne AE; Wirth C; Coomes DA, 2009, 'Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?', Ecology Letters, 12, pp. 45 - 56

Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Allison SD; Bauhus J; Eggleton P; Preston CM; Scarff F; Weedon JT; Wirth C; Zanne AE, 2009, 'Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?', Global Change Biology, 15, pp. 2431 - 2449

Cernusak LA; Tcherkez G; Keitel C; Cornwell WK; Santiago LS; Knohl A; Barbour MM; Williams DG; Reich PB; Ellsworth DS; others , 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

Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Amatangelo K; Dorrepaal E; Eviner VT; Godoy O; Hobbie SE; Hoorens B; Kurokawa H; Pérez-Harguindeguy N; others , 2008, 'Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide', Ecology Letters, 11, pp. 1065 - 1071

Ackerly DD; Cornwell WK, 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

Cornwell WK; Bhaskar R; Sack L; Cordell S, 2007, 'Adjustment of structure and function of Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha at high vs. low precipitation', Functional Ecology, 21, pp. 1063 - 1071

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

Kraft NJB; Cornwell WK; Webb CO; Ackerly DD, 2007, 'Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities', The American Naturalist, 170, pp. 271 - 283

Cornwell WK; Schwilk DW; Ackerly DD, 2006, 'A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume', Ecology, 87, pp. 1465 - 1471

Preston KA; Cornwell WK; DeNoyer JL, 2006, 'Wood density and vessel traits as distinct correlates of ecological strategy in 51 California coast range angiosperms', New Phytologist, 170, pp. 807 - 818

Cornwell WK; Grubb PJ, 2003, 'Regional and local patterns in plant species richness with respect to resource availability', Oikos, 100, pp. 417 - 428

Flecker AS; Taylor BW; Bernhardt ES; Hood JM; Cornwell WK; Cassatt SR; Vanni MJ; Altman NS, 2002, 'Interactions between herbivorous fishes and limiting nutrients in a tropical stream ecosystem', Ecology, 83, pp. 1831 - 1844

Cornwell WK; Bedford BL; Chapin CT, 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

Conference Presentations

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

Media

Fisher A; Mills C; Letnic M; Lyons M; Cornwell W, 2021, The Conversation, , https://theconversation.com/the-dingo-fence-from-space-satellite-images-show-how-these-top-predators-alter-the-desert-155642

Preprints

Wenk E; Cornwell W; Fuchs A; Kar F; Monro A; Sauquet H; Stephens R; Falster D, 2024, APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.02.578715

Stephens R; Gallagher R; Dun L; Cornwell W; Sauquet H, 2023, Insects pollinated flowering plants for most of angiosperm evolutionary history, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526530

Zanne A; Flores-Moreno H; Powell J; Cornwell W; Dalling J; Austin A; Classen A; Eggleton P; Okada K-I; Parr C; Adair E; Adu-Bredu S; Alam MA; Alvarez-Garzón C; Apgaua D; Aragon R; Ardón M; Arndt S; Ashton L; Barber N; Beauchêne J; Berg M; Beringer J; Boer M; Bonet J; Bunney K; Burkhardt T; Carvalho D; Castillo-Figueroa D; Cernusak L; Cheesman A; Cirne-Silva T; Cleverly J; Cornelissen H; Curran T; D'Angioli A; Dallstream C; Eisenhauer N; Ondo FE; Fajardo A; Fernandez R; Ferrer A; Fontes M; Galatowitsch M; González G; Gottschall F; Grace P; Granda E; Griffiths H; Lara MG; Hasegawa M; Hefting M; Hinko-Najera N; Hutley L; Jones J; Kahl A; Karan M; Keuskamp J; Lardner T; Liddell M; Macfarlane C; Macinnis-Ng C; Mariano R; Meyer W; Mori A; Moura A; Northwood M; Ogaya R; Oliveira R; Orgiazzi A; Pardo J; Peguero G; Penuelas J; Perez L; Posada J; Prada C; Přívětivý T; Prober S; Prunier J; Quansah G; de Dios VR; Richter R; Robertson M; Rocha L; Rúa M; Sarmiento C; Silberstein R; Silva M; Siqueira F; Stillwagon M; Stol J; Taylor M; Teste F; Tng D; Tucker D; Türke M; Ulyshen M; Valverde-Barrantes O; Berg EVD; Logtestijn RV; Veen C; Vogel J; Wardlaw T; Wiehl G; Wirth C; Woods M; Zalamea P-C; Méndez M, 2022, Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1242094/v1

Tam J; Lagisz M; Cornwell W; Nakagawa S, 2021, Quantifying research interests in 7,521 mammalian species with h-index: a case study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/gd7cv

Chan J; Bonser S; Kasumovic M; Powell J; Cornwell W, 2021, Complex environments alter competitive dynamics in fungi, , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/pf3kq

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