By Professor Will Cornwell

Journal articles

Krause S; Van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Bodelier PLE, 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

Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; FitzJohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; others , 2014, 'Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments', Nature

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, pp. n/a - n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12237

Moles AT; Perkins SE; Laffan SW; Flores‐Moreno H; Awasthy M; Tindall ML; Sack L; Pitman A; Kattge J; Aarssen LW; Anand M; Bahn M; Blonder B; Cavender‐Bares J; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK; Díaz S; Dickie JB; Freschet GT; Griffiths JG; Gutierrez AG; Hemmings FA; Hickler T; Hitchcock TD; Keighery M; Kleyer M; Kurokawa H; Leishman MR; Liu K; Niinemets Ü; Onipchenko V; Onoda Y; Penuelas J; Pillar VD; Reich PB; Shiodera S; Siefert A; Sosinski EE; Soudzilovskaia NA; Swaine EK; Swenson NG; van Bodegom PM; Warman L; Weiher E; Wright IJ; Zhang H; Zobel M; Bonser SP, 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

Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC, 2013, 'A broader perspective on plant domestication and nutrient and carbon cycling', New Phytologist, 198, pp. 331 - 333

Bennett JR; Vellend M; Lilley PL; Cornwell WK; Arcese P, 2013, 'Abundance, rarity and invasion debt among exotic species in a patchy ecosystem', Biological invasions, 15, pp. 707 - 716

Moles AT; Peco B; Wallis IR; Foley WJ; Poore AGB; Seabloom EW; Vesk PA; Bisigato AJ; Cella-pizarro L; Clark CJ; Cohen PS; Cornwell WK; Edwards W; Ejrnaes R; Gonzales-Ojeda T; Graae BJ; Hay G; Lumbwe FC; Magana-rodriguez ; Moore BD; Peri PL; Poulsen JR; Stegen JC; Veldtman R; von Zeipel H; Andrew NR; Boulter SL; Borer ET; Cornelissen JHC; Farji-Brener AG; De Gabriel J; Jurado E; Kyhn LA; Low B; Mulder CPH; Reardon-smith KM; Rodriguez-Velazquez J; De Fortier A; Zheng Z; Blendinger PG; Enquist BJ; Facelli JM; Knight T; Majer JD; Martinez-Ramos M; Mcquillan P; Hui FKC, 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

Cornwell WK; Weedon JT, 2013, 'Decomposition trajectories of diverse litter types: a model selection analysis', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12138

Kooyman RM; Zanne A; Cornwell WK; Rossetto M; O'Connor P; Parkes E; Catterall C; Laffan SW; Lusk C; Gallagher R, 2013, 'Growth form and functional traits influence response of woody plants to fragmentation of subtropical rain forest', Conservation Biology, in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12088

Funk JL; Cornwell WK, 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

Freschet GT; Cornwell WK; Wardle DA; Elumeeva TG; Liu W; Jackson BG; Onipchenko VG; Soudzilovskaia NA; Tao J; Cornelissen JHC, 2013, 'Linking litter decomposition of above-and below-ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide', Journal of Ecology

Temme AA; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Aerts R, 2013, 'Meta-analysis reveals profound responses of plant traits to glacial CO2 levels', Ecology and Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.836

Pérez-Harguindeguy N; Díaz S; Garnier E; Lavorel S; Poorter H; Jaureguiberry P; Bret-Harte MS; Cornwell WK; Craine JM; Gurvich DE; others , 2013, 'New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide', Australian Journal of Botany

Akhmetzhanova AA; Soudzilovskaia NA; Onipchenko VG; Cornwell WK; Agafonov VA; Selivanov IA; Cornelissen JHC, 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

Westoby M; Cornwell WK; Falster DS, 2012, 'An evolutionary attractor model for sapwood cross section in relation to leaf area', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 303, pp. 98 - 109

Kooyman R; Rossetto M; Allen C; Cornwell W, 2012, 'Australian tropical and subtropical rain forest community assembly: phylogeny, functional biogeography, and environmental gradients', Biotropica, 44, pp. 668 - 679

Brovkin V; Bodegom PMV; Kleinen T; Wirth C; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Kattge J, 2012, 'Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution', Biogeosciences, 9, pp. 565 - 576

Van Altena C; van Logtestijn RSP; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC, 2012, 'Species composition and fire: non-additive mixture effects on ground fuel flammability', Frontiers in plant science, 3

Freschet GT; Dias ATC; Ackerly DD; Aerts R; van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Dong M; Kurokawa H; Liu G; Onipchenko VG; others , 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

Kooyman R; Rossetto M; Cornwell W; Westoby M, 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

Moles AT; Wallis IR; Foley WJ; Warton DI; Stegen JC; Bisigato AJ; Cella-pizarro L; Clark CJ; Cohen PS; Cornwell WK; Edwards W; Ejrnaes R; Gonzales-Ojeda T; Graae BJ; Hay G; Lumbwe FC; Magana-Rodriguez B; Moore BD; Peri PL; Poulsen JR; Veldtman R; von Zeipel H; Andrew NR; Boulter SL; Borer ET; Campon FF; Coll M; Farji-Brener AG; De Gabriel J; Jurado E; Kyhn LA; Low B; Mulder CPH; Reardon-Smith K; Rodriguez-Velazquez J; Seabloom EW; Vesk PA; van Cauter A; Waldram MS; Zheng Z; Blendinger PG; Enquist BJ; Facelli JM; Knight T; Majer JD; Martinez-Ramos M; Mcquillan P; Prior LD, 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

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

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 - 1831, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3071768

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 Papers

Cornwell WK; McLaughlin V; Krishnan S; Rubenfire M, 2011, 'The Percent Predicted Six-Minute Walk Distance In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension', in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, AMER THORACIC SOC

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'

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

Gemmell A; Cornwell W; Fisher AG; Mesaglio T, 2026, Applying the spectral variability hypothesis to arid shrublands using multispectral drone imagery, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6631204

Lee J; Cornwell W; Teckentrup L; Brazill-Boast J; Gallagher R, 2026, Predicting decay in functional diversity in plant communities under future climates, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6582147

Wijas BJ; Flores-Moreno H; Allison SD; Cernusak LA; Cheesman AW; Cornwell W; Dalling J; Eggleton P; Powell JR; Zanne AE, 2026, Termite discovery disrupts microbial succession and deadwood decay, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7000384

Beuzeville R; Cornwell W; Letnic M, 2026, The Sounds of Change: Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Assess the Effect of Artificial Watering Point Closure on Arid Australian Avifauna, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6514828

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