School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
[email protected]; @will_cornwell
For the most up-to-date list please see my google scholar page
V. Brovkin, P.M. van Bodegom, T. Kleinen, C. Wirth, W.K.
Cornwell, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J. Kattge accepted pending revision .
Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections
of global litter stock distribution. Biogeosciences.
Westoby, M., W.K. Cornwell. and D.S. Falster. accepted pending revision
. AN EVOLUTIONARY ATTRACTOR MODEL FOR SAPWOOD CROSS SECTION
IN RELATION TO LEAF AREA. Journal of Theoretical
Biology.
Akhmetzhanova A., N. Soudzilovskaia, V. Onipchenko,
W.K. Cornwell, V. Agafonov, I. Selivanov, and J.H.C. Cornelissen.
in press.
A
re-discovered treasure: mycorrhizal intensity database for 3000
vascular plants species across former Soviet Union. Ecology.
Kattge, J. and many others. in press. Try – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology.
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Moles, A.T., I.R. Wallis, W.J. Foley, D.I. Warton, J.C.
Stegen, A.J. Bisigato, L. Cella-Pizarro, C.J. Clark, P.S. Cohen,
W.K. Cornwell, and 37 others. 2011. Putting plant defenses on
the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at
lower latitudes. New Phytologist. 191: 777-788
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this is controversial: see this comment.
Vellend, M., W.K. Cornwell, K. Magnuson-Ford, and A.
Mooers. 2011. Measuring
phylogenetic biodiversity. in Biological Diversity: Frontiers in
Measurement and Assessment. eds A.E. Magurran and
B.J. McGill. Oxford University Press.
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Kooyman R., M. Rosetto, W.K. Cornwell and M. Westoby. in press. Phylogenetic
tests of community assembly across regional to continental
scales in tropical and sub-tropical rainforests. Global
Ecology and Biogeography.
Freschet, G.T., A.T.C. Dias, D.D. Ackerly, R. Aertys, P.M. van Bodegom, W.K. Cornwell, M. Dong, H. Kirokawa, G. Liu, V.G. Onipchenko, J.C. Ordonez, D.A. Peltzer, S.J. Richardson, I.I. Shidakov, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, J. Tao, J.H.C. Cornelissen. in press. Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Hudson, J.M.G., G.H.R. Henry, and W.K. Cornwell. in press . Taller and
larger in the Arctic: shifts in leaf traits after 16 years of
experimental warming. Global Change Biology.
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Cornwell, W.K. and D.D. Ackerly. 2010. A link between plant traits
and abundance: evidence from woody plants in coastal California.
Journal of Ecology 98: 814-821.
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D.D. Ackerly, S.R. Loarie, W.K. Cornwell and 4 others. 2010. The geography of
climate change: implications for conservation biogeography.
Diversity and Distributions. 16: 476- 487
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Sack, L., W.K. Cornwell, and 6 others. 2010. A unique web resource for physiology, ecology and the environmental sciences: PrometheusWiki. Functional Plant Biology 37: 687-693
Kembel, S.W., P.D. Cowan, M.R. Helmus, W.K. Cornwell, and 4 others. 2010. Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics 26: 1462-1464.
Kooyman R., W.K. Cornwell and M. Westoby. 2010. Partitioning functional trait variation into within- and among-community components for Australian sub-tropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology 98: 517-525.
Cornwell, W.K., J.H.C. Cornelissen, S.D. Allison, J.
Bauhus, P. Eggleton, C.M. Preston, F. Scarff, J.T. Weedon, C.
Wirth, A.E. Zanne. 2009.
Plant traits and wood fates across the globe—rotted, burned, or
consumed? Global Change Biology 15: 2431-2449.
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Cernusak, L.A., G. Tcherkez, C. Keitel, W.K. Cornwell, L.S.
Santiago, A. Knohl, M.M. Barbour, D.G. Williams, P.B. Reich, D.S.
Ellsworth, T.E. Dawson, H.G. Griffiths, G.D. Farquhar, I.J.
Wright, and M. Westoby. 2009.
Within plant variation in stable carbon isotopes: why are
non-photosynthetic tissues generally δ13C enriched
compared to leaves? Functional Plant Biology. 36:
199-213.
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Cornwell, W.K. and Ackerly D.D. 2009. Community assembly and shifts
in the distribution of trait values across an environmental
gradient in coastal California. Ecological Monographs
79: 109-126
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Weedon J.T., W.K. Cornwell, Cornelissen J.H.C., Zanne A.,
Wirth C. and Coomes D. 2009.
Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: the role of
wood traits. Ecology Letters
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Cornwell, W.K., J.H.C. Cornelissen, K. Amatangelo, E.
Dorrepaal, V.T. Eviner, O. Godoy, S.E. Hobbie, B. Hoorens, Hiroko
Kurokawa, N. Perez Harguindeguy, H.M. Quested, L.S. Santiago, D.A.
Wardle, I.J. Wright, R. Aerts, S.D. Allison, P. van Bodegom, V.
Brovkin, A. Chatain, T. Callaghan, S. Dıaz, E. Garnier, D.E.
Gurvich, E. Kazakou, J.A. Klein, J. Read, P.B. Reich, N.A.
Soudzilovskaia, M.V. Vaieretti, and M. Westoby. 2008. Plant species
traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates
within biomes worldwide Ecology Letters 11: 1065-1071
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Cornwell, W.K., R. Bhaskar, L. Sack, S. Cordell, and C. K.
Lunch. 2007.
Adjustment of structure and function of Hawaiian Metrosideros
polymorpha at high versus low precipitation Functional
Ecology.
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Cover article
Kraft, N.J.B., W.K. Cornwell, C.O. Webb, and D.D. Ackerly.
2007. Trait
evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of
ecological communities. American Naturalist 170:
271-283
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2008 Presidential award winner for best paper of the year in Am
Nat
Ackerly D.D. and W.K. Cornwell. 2007. A trait-based approach to
community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into
within- and among-community components.
Ecology Letters 10: 135-145.
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Faculty of 1000 selection
Cornwell, W.K., D.W. Schwilk, and D. D. Ackerly. 2006. A trait-based
test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. Ecology
87: 1465-1471.
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Preston, K. A., W. K. Cornwell. and J. Denoyer. 2006. Wood density and
vessel traits as distinct correlates of ecological strategy in
51 California coast range angiosperms. New Phytologist
170: 1007-818.
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special issue”
Cornwell, W.K. and P.J. Grubb. 2003. Regional and local patterns of
plant species richness with respect to resource availability.
Oikos 100: 417-428.
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Flecker A.S., B.W. Taylor, E.S. Bernhardt, J.M. Hood, W.K.
Cornwell, S.R. Cassatt, M.J. Vanni, and N.S. Altman. 2002. Interactions
between herbivorous fishes and limiting nutrients in a tropical
stream ecosystem. Ecology 83: 1831-1844.
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Cornwell W.K., Bedford B.L., and Chapin C.T. 2001. Occurrence of
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a phosphorus-poor wetland and
mycorrhizal response to phosphorus fertilization. American
Journal
of Botany 88: 1824-1829.
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