By Associate Professor Will Cornwell

Journal articles

Kirchhoff C; Callaghan C; Keith D; Indiarto D; Taseski G; Ooi M; Le Breton T; Mesaglio T; Kingsford R; Cornwell W, 2020, 'Rapidly mapping fire effects on biodiversity at a large-scale using citizen science', , http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vc6ry

Callaghan CT; Major RE; Cornwell WK; Poore AGB; Wilshire JH; Lyons MB, 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

Nelson RA; Francis EJ; Berry JA; Cornwell WK; Anderegg LDL, 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

Kattge J; Bönisch G; Díaz S; Lavorel S; Prentice IC; Leadley P; Tautenhahn S; Werner GDA; Aakala T; Abedi M; Acosta ATR; Adamidis GC; Adamson K; Aiba M; Albert CH; Alcántara JM; Alcázar C C; Aleixo I; Ali H; Amiaud B; Ammer C; Amoroso MM; Anand M; Anderson C; Anten N; Antos J; Apgaua DMG; Ashman TL; Asmara DH; Asner GP; Aspinwall M; Atkin O; Aubin I; Baastrup-Spohr L; Bahalkeh K; Bahn M; Baker T; Baker WJ; Bakker JP; Baldocchi D; Baltzer J; Banerjee A; Baranger A; Barlow J; Barneche DR; Baruch Z; Bastianelli D; Battles J; Bauerle W; Bauters M; Bazzato E; Beckmann M; Beeckman H; Beierkuhnlein C; Bekker R; Belfry G; Belluau M; Beloiu M; Benavides R; Benomar L; Berdugo-Lattke ML; Berenguer E; Bergamin R; Bergmann J; Bergmann Carlucci M; Berner L; Bernhardt-Römermann M; Bigler C; Bjorkman AD; Blackman C; Blanco C; Blonder B; Blumenthal D; Bocanegra-González KT; Boeckx P; Bohlman S; Böhning-Gaese K; Boisvert-Marsh L; Bond W; Bond-Lamberty B; Boom A; Boonman CCF; Bordin K; Boughton EH; Boukili V; Bowman DMJS; Bravo S; Brendel MR; Broadley MR; Brown KA; Bruelheide H; Brumnich F; Bruun HH; Bruy D; Buchanan SW; Bucher SF; Buchmann N; Buitenwerf R; Bunker DE; Bürger J; Moles A; Cornwell W; Falster D; Muir C; Martin A; Wenk E, 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

Zajitschek SRK; Zajitschek F; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC; Cornwell W; Falster DS; Lagisz M; Mason J; Senior AM; Noble DAW; Nakagawa S, 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

Moles AT; Jagdish A; Wu Y; Gooley S; Dalrymple RL; Feng P; Auld J; Badgery G; Balding M; Bell A; Campbell N; Clark M; Clark M; Crawford KM; De Lorenzo O; Fletcher A; Ford Z; Fort H; Gorta SBZ; Hagan A; Hemmings FA; Hoban GS; Hulme T; King K; Kumar A; Kyriazis A; Laitly BA; Markovski J; Martin L; McDonnell G; Pan C; Paroissien R; Reeves-Perrin P; Sano M; Schwarz SM; Sipka A; Sullings M; Yeong JW; Cornwell WK, 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

Santini NS; Lovelock CE; Hua Q; Zawadzki A; Mazumder D; Mercer TR; Muñoz-Rojas M; Hardwick SA; Madala BS; Cornwell W; Thomas T; Marzinelli EM; Adam P; Paul S; Vergés A; Munoz-Rojas M, 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

Callaghan CT; Poore AGB; Major RE; Rowley JJL; Cornwell WK, 2019, 'Optimizing future biodiversity sampling by citizen scientists', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1487

Zhang A; Cornwell W; Li Z; Xiong G; Fan D; Xie Z, 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

Lee MR; Powell JR; Oberle B; Cornwell WK; Lyons M; Rigg JL; Zanne AE, 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

Callaghan CT; Poore AGB; Major RE; Cornwell W; Wilshire J; Lyons M, 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

Zanne AE; Powell J; Moreno HF; Kiers ET; van ’t Padje A; Cornwell W, 2019, 'Finding fungal ecological strategies: Is recycling an option?', Fungal Ecology, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/tkxj2

Zanne AE; Abarenkov K; Afkhami ME; Aguilar-Trigueros CA; Bates S; Bhatnagar JM; Busby PE; Christian N; Cornwell W; Crowther TW; Moreno HF; Floudas D; Gazis R; Hibbett D; Kennedy P; Lindner DL; Maynard DS; Milo AM; Nilsson H; Powell J; Schildhauer M; Schilling J; Treseder KK, 2019, 'Fungal functional ecology: Bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi', ExoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/a7f6g

Cornwell WK; Pearse WD; Dalrymple RL; Zanne AE, 2019, 'What we (don't) know about global plant diversity', Ecography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04481

Callaghan C; Major RE; Cornwell WK; Poore AGB; Wilshire J; Lyons M, 2019, 'Continental-scale urbanness predicts local-scale responses to urbanization', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ky2hu

Powell J; Riley R; Cornwell W, 2019, 'Relationships between mycorrhizal type and leaf flammability in the Australian flora', EcoEvoRxiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/u7bhv

Gorta SBZ; Smith JA; Everett JD; Kingsford RT; Cornwell WK; Suthers IM; Epstein H; McGovern R; McLachlan G; Roderick M; Smith L; Williams D; Callaghan CT, 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

Callaghan CT; Major RE; Wilshire JH; Martin JM; Kingsford RT; Cornwell WK, 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

Callaghan CT; Rowley JJL; Cornwell WK; Poore AGB; Major RE, 2019, 'Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling', PLoS Biology, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000357

Falster DS; FitzJohn RG; Pennell MW; Cornwell WK, 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

Aguilar-Trigueros CA; Hempel S; Powell JR; Cornwell WK; Rillig MC, 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

Chan JY; Bonser SP; Powell JR; Cornwell WK, 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

Taseski GM; Beloe CJ; Gallagher RV; Chan JY; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK, 2019, 'A global growth-form database for 143,616 vascular plant species', Ecology, 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2614

Zhang A; Cornwell W; Li Z; Xiong G; Yang D; Xie Z, 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

Thomas HJD; Myers-Smith IH; Bjorkman AD; Elmendorf SC; Blok D; Cornelissen JHC; Forbes BC; Hollister RD; Normand S; Prevéy JS; Rixen C; Schaepman-Strub G; Wilmking M; Wipf S; Cornwell WK; Kattge J; Goetz SJ; Guay KC; Alatalo JM; Anadon-Rosell A; Angers-Blondin S; Berner LT; Björk RG; Buchwal A; Buras A; Carbognani M; Christie K; Siegwart Collier L; Cooper EJ; Eskelinen A; Frei ER; Grau O; Grogan P; Hallinger M; Heijmans MMPD; Hermanutz L; Hudson JMG; Hülber K; Iturrate-Garcia M; Iversen CM; Jaroszynska F; Johnstone JF; Kaarlejärvi E; Kulonen A; Lamarque LJ; Lévesque E; Little CJ; Michelsen A; Milbau A; Nabe-Nielsen J; Nielsen SS; Ninot JM; Oberbauer SF; Olofsson J; Onipchenko VG; Petraglia A; Rumpf SB; Semenchuk PR; Soudzilovskaia NA; Spasojevic MJ; Speed JDM; Tape KD; te Beest M; Tomaselli M; Trant A; Treier UA; Venn S; Vowles T; Weijers S; Zamin T; Atkin OK; Bahn M; Blonder B; Campetella G; Cerabolini BEL; Chapin FS; Dainese M; de Vries FT; Díaz S; Green W; Jackson RB; Manning P; Niinemets ; Ozinga WA; Peñuelas J; Reich PB; Schamp B; Sheremetev S; van Bodegom PM, 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

Callaghan CT; Major RE; Lyons MB; Martin JM; Wilshire JH; Kingsford RT; Cornwell WK, 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

Cornwell WK, 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

Bjorkman AD; Myers-Smith IH; Elmendorf SC; Normand S; Rüger N; Beck PSA; Blach-Overgaard A; Blok D; Cornelissen JHC; Forbes BC; Georges D; Goetz SJ; Guay KC; Henry GHR; HilleRisLambers J; Hollister RD; Karger DN; Kattge J; Manning P; Prevéy JS; Rixen C; Schaepman-Strub G; Thomas HJD; 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 MMPD; 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 JDM; 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

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 JHC; 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

Cornwell W; Pearse W; Dalrymple R; Zanne A, 2018, 'What we (don’t) know about global plant diversity', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/404376

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

Werner GDA; Cornelissen JHC; 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

Dixson BJW; 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

Werner GDA; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell W; Soudzilovskaia N; Kattge J; West S; Kiers T, 2018, 'Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/242834

Temme AA; Liu JC; van Hal J; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; 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

Cornelissen JHC; 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

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

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

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

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

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

Pierce S; Negreiros D; Cerabolini BEL; 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 JHC; 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 NPU; Chapin FS; Cornwell WK; Fang J; Fernandes GW; Garnier E; Le Stradic S; Peñuelas J; Melo FPL; 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

Bastias CC; Fortunel C; Valladares F; Baraloto C; Benavides R; Cornwell W; Markesteijn L; De Oliveira AA; Sansevero JBB; Vaz MC; Kraft NJB, 2017, 'Intraspecific leaf trait variability along a boreal-to-tropical community diversity gradient', PLoS ONE, 12, pp. e0172495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172495

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

Falster D; FitzJohn R; Pennell M; Cornwell W, 2017, 'Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3401v1

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

Zhao W; Cornwell WK; van Pomeren M; van Logtestijn RSP; Cornelissen JHC, 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

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

Ye D; Liu G; Song YB; Cornwell WK; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 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

Liu JC; Temme AA; Cornwell WK; van Logtestijn RSP; Aerts R; Cornelissen JHC, 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

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