By Professor Will Cornwell

Books

Cornwell W, 2006, Causes and consequences of functional trait diversity: plant community assembly and leaf decomposition, Stanford University

Book Chapters

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

Ferrer-Paris JR; Sánchez-Mercado A; Cornwell WK; Ooi M; Tozer M; Mackenzie BDE; Woodward R; Denham AJ; Auld TD; Keith DA, 2025, 'Fire ecology database for documenting plant responses to fire events in Australia', Scientific Data, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04705-6

Nakagawa S; Cornwell WK; Callaghan CT, 2025, 'Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size, challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds', eLife, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.95857.3

Tangney R; McInnes SJ; Dalziell EL; Cornwell WK; Miller BP; Auld TD; Ooi MKJ, 2025, 'Defining the pyro-thermal niche: do seed traits, ecosystem type and phylogeny influence thermal thresholds in seeds with physical dormancy?', New Phytologist, 246, pp. 1567 - 1582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.70061

Yang S; Ooi MKJ; Falster DS; Cornwell WK, 2025, 'Continental-scale empirical evidence for relationships between fire response strategies and fire frequency', New Phytologist, 246, pp. 528 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.20464

Gallagher R; Roger E; Packer J; Slatyer C; Rowley J; Cornwell W; Ens E; Legge S; Simpfendorfer C; Stephens R; Mesaglio T, 2025, 'Incorporating citizen science into IUCN Red List assessments', Conservation Biology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14329

Wijas BJ; Cornwell WK; Oberle B; Powell JR; Zanne AE, 2025, 'Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter', New Phytologist, 245, pp. 2214 - 2223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.20362

Ford AM; Grootemaat S; Towers I; Maslen B; Cornwell WK; Ooi MKJ; Falster DS, 2025, 'Assessing the effect of tissue and fire-response traits on plant growth rates post-disturbance in eastern Australia', Functional Ecology, 39, pp. 320 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14698

Mesaglio T; Sauquet H; Cornwell WK, 2025, 'Citizen science records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species', American Journal of Botany, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70048

Mesaglio T; Shepherd KA; Wege JA; Barrett RL; Sauquet H; Cornwell WK, 2025, 'Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence', Plants People Planet, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70005

Mesaglio T; Kar F; Sauquet H; Cornwell WK, 2025, 'infinitylists: A Shiny application and R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists', Applications in Plant Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70012

Law SJ; Flores-Moreno H; Parr CL; Adu-Bredu S; Bunney K; Cornwell WK; Evouna Ondo F; Powell JR; Quansah GW; Robertson MP; Zanne AE; Eggleton P, 2024, 'Biogeographical Variation in Termite Distributions Alters Global Deadwood Decay', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13915

Wenk E; Mesaglio T; Keith D; Cornwell W, 2024, 'Curating protected area-level species lists in an era of diverse and dynamic data sources', Ecological Informatics, 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102921

Camenzind T; Aguilar-Trigueros CA; Heuck MK; Maerowitz-McMahan S; Rillig MC; Cornwell WK; Powell JR, 2024, 'Progressing beyond colonization strategies to understand arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal life history', New Phytologist, 244, pp. 752 - 759, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.20090

Jordan M; Bragg J; Ooi M; van der Merwe M; Rossetto M; Cornwell W, 2024, 'The landscape genetics of a mass-flowering fire-ephemeral plant', American Journal of Botany, 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16432

Xu T; Cornwell WK; Wang L; Wijas B; Liu C; Yuan Z; Letnic M, 2024, 'Impacts of wild herbivores on soil seed banks are explained by precipitation conditions in protected areas across semi-arid to arid regions', Journal of Applied Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14803

Guo K; Cornwell WK; Bragg JG, 2024, 'Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50-fold expansion of leaf trait datasets', Journal of Ecology, 112, pp. 2183 - 2197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14354

Wijas BJ; Allison SD; Austin AT; Cornwell WK; Hans Cornelissen JC; Eggleton P; Fraver S; Ooi MKJ; Powell JR; Woodall CW; Zanne AE, 2024, 'The Role of Deadwood in the Carbon Cycle: Implications for Models, Forest Management, and Future Climates', Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 55, pp. 133 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110421-102327

Wijas B; Letnic M; Cornwell W, 2024, 'Spatial variability in the contribution of termites to the decay of plant detritus', Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13555

Wijas BJ; Flores-Moreno H; Allison SD; Rodriguez LC; Cheesman AW; Cernusak LA; Clement R; Cornwell WK; Duan ES; Eggleton P; Rosenfield MV; Yatsko AR; Zanne AE, 2024, 'Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: Termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients', Functional Ecology, 38, pp. 546 - 559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14494

Mesaglio T; Sauquet H; Cornwell WK, 2024, 'Rapid progress on the photographic documentation of Australia’s flora', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 157, pp. 5 - 14

Lee-Kiorgaard HJ; Stuart SA; Lawson JR; Bulger DW; Gallagher RV; Nipperess DA; Cornwell WK; Boomer JJ; Francis RJ; Brazill-Boast J, 2024, 'Weighing up the options: experiences in applying decision science from a large-scale conservation program', Australian Zoologist, 43, pp. 502 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.030

Wenk EH; Cornwell WK; Fuchs A; Kar F; Monro AM; Sauquet H; Stephens RE; Falster DS, 2024, 'APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census', Australian Journal of Botany, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt24014

Gorta SBZ; Callaghan CT; Samonte F; Ooi MKJ; Mesaglio T; Laffan SW; Cornwell WK, 2023, 'Multi-taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires', Global Change Biology, 29, pp. 6727 - 6740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16955

Stephens RE; Gallagher RV; Dun L; Cornwell W; Sauquet H, 2023, 'Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history', New Phytologist, 240, pp. 880 - 891, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18993

Mallen-Cooper M; Cornwell WK; Slavich E; Sabot MEB; Xirocostas ZA; Eldridge DJ, 2023, 'Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25-year resurvey', Journal of Ecology, 111, pp. 2194 - 2207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14169

Aguilar-Trigueros CA; Krah FS; Cornwell WK; Zanne AE; Abrego N; Anderson IC; Andrew CJ; Baldrian P; Bässler C; Bissett A; Chaudhary VB; Chen B; Chen Y; Delgado-Baquerizo M; Deveautour C; Egidi E; Flores-Moreno H; Golan J; Heilmann-Clausen J; Hempel S; Hu Y; Kauserud H; Kivlin SN; Kohout P; Lammel DR; Maestre FT; Pringle A; Purhonen J; Singh BK; Veresoglou SD; Větrovský T; Zhang H; Rillig MC; Powell JR, 2023, 'Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories', Ecology Letters, 26, pp. 1523 - 1534, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14271

Wilde BC; Bragg JG; Cornwell W, 2023, 'Analyzing trait-climate relationships within and among taxa using machine learning and herbarium specimens', American Journal of Botany, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16167

Wijas BJ; Cornwell WK; Letnic M, 2023, 'Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems', Ecology, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4035

Mesaglio T; Sauquet H; Coleman D; Wenk E; Cornwell WK, 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

Mesaglio T; Callaghan CT; Samonte F; Gorta SBZ; Cornwell WK, 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

Callaghan CT; Thompson M; Woods A; Poore AGB; Bowler DE; Samonte F; Rowley JJL; Roslan N; Kingsford RT; Cornwell WK; Major RE, 2023, 'Experimental evidence that behavioral nudges in citizen science projects can improve biodiversity data', BioScience, 73, pp. 302 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad012

Zhang S; Cornwell WK; Zhao W; van Logtestijn R; Krab EJ; Aerts R; Cornelissen JHC, 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

Mallen-Cooper M; Rodríguez-Caballero E; Eldridge DJ; Weber B; Büdel B; Höhne H; Cornwell WK, 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

Lee JS; Callaghan CT; Cornwell WK, 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

Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK; Freschet GT; Weedon JT; Berg MP; Zanne AE, 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

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Cornwell WK; Hayward C; Jansz P; Strueber M; Zimpfer D; Cowger J; Kanwar M; El Banayosy A; Leprince P; Gustafsson F; Tsui S; Pya Y; Snyder TA, 2023, 'Pre-Clinical Development & Testing of the CorWave Membrane LVAD', JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION, 42, pp. S181 - S181

Díaz S; Kattge J; Cornelissen JHC; Wright IJ; Lavorel S; Dray S; Reu B; Kleyer M; Wirth C; Prentice IC; Garnier E; Bönisch G; Westoby M; Poorter H; Reich PB; Moles AT; Dickie J; Zanne AE; Chave J; Wright SJ; Sheremetiev SN; Jactel H; Baraloto C; Cerabolini BEL; Pierce S; Shipley B; Casanoves F; Joswig JS; Günther A; Falczuk V; Rüger N; Mahecha MD; Gorné LD; Amiaud B; Atkin OK; Bahn M; Baldocchi D; Beckmann M; Blonder B; Bond W; Bond-Lamberty B; Brown K; Burrascano S; Byun C; Campetella G; Cavender-Bares J; Chapin FS; Choat B; Coomes DA; Cornwell WK; Craine J; Craven D; Dainese M; de Araujo AC; de Vries FT; Domingues TF; Enquist BJ; Fagúndez J; Fang J; Fernández-Méndez F; Fernandez-Piedade MT; Ford H; Forey E; Freschet GT; Gachet S; Gallagher R; Green W; Guerin GR; Gutiérrez AG; Harrison SP; Hattingh WN; He T; Hickler T; Higgins SI; Higuchi P; Ilic J; Jackson RB; Jalili A; Jansen S; Koike F; König C; Kraft N; Kramer K; Kreft H; Kühn I; Kurokawa H; Lamb EG; Laughlin DC; Leishman M; Lewis S; Louault F; Malhado ACM; Manning P; Meir P; Mencuccini M; Messier J; Miller R; Minden V; Molofsky J; Montgomery R, 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

Callaghan CT; Mesaglio T; Ascher JS; Brooks TM; Cabras AA; Chandler M; Cornwell WK; Ríos-Málaver IC; Dankowicz E; Dhiya'Ulhaq NU; Fuller RA; Galindo-Leal C; Grattarola F; Hewitt S; Higgins L; Hitchcock C; Hung KLJ; Iwane T; Kahumbu P; Kendrick R; Kieschnick SR; Kunz G; Lee CC; Lin CT; Loarie S; Medina MN; McGrouther MA; Miles L; Modi S; Nowak K; Oktaviani R; Olewe BMW; Pagé J; Petrovan S; Saari C; Seltzer CE; Seregin AP; Sullivan JJ; Sumanapala AP; Takoukam A; Widness J; Willmott K; Wüster W; Young AN, 2022, 'The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier', Plos Biology, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843

Zanne AE; Flores-Moreno H; Powell JR; Cornwell WK; Dalling JW; Austin AT; Classen AT; Eggleton P; Okada KI; Parr CL; Carol Adair E; Adu-Bredu S; Alam MA; Alvarez-Garzón C; Apgaua D; Aragón R; Ardon M; Arndt SK; Ashton LA; Barber NA; Beauchêne J; Berg MP; Beringer J; Boer MM; Bonet JA; Bunney K; Burkhardt TJ; Carvalho D; Castillo-Figueroa D; Cernusak LA; Cheesman AW; Cirne-Silva TM; Cleverly JR; Cornelissen JHC; Curran TJ; D’Angioli AM; Dallstream C; Eisenhauer N; Ondo FE; Fajardo A; Fernandez RD; Ferrer A; Fontes MAL; Galatowitsch ML; González G; Gottschall F; Grace PR; Granda E; Griffiths HM; Lara MG; Hasegawa M; Hefting MM; Hinko-Najera N; Hutley LB; Jones J; Kahl A; Karan M; Keuskamp JA; Lardner T; Liddell M; Macfarlane C; Macinnis-Ng C; Mariano RF; Soledad Méndez M; Meyer WS; Mori AS; Moura AS; Northwood M; Ogaya R; Oliveira RS; Orgiazzi A; Pardo J; Peguero G; Penuelas J; Perez LI; Posada JM; Prada CM; Přívětivý T; Prober SM; Prunier J; Quansah GW; de Dios VR; Richter R; Robertson MP; Rocha LF; Rúa MA; Sarmiento C; Silberstein RP; Silva MC; Siqueira FF; Stillwagon MG; Stol J; Taylor MK; Teste FP; Tng DYP; Tucker D; Türke M; Ulyshen MD; Valverde-Barrantes OJ; van den Berg E, 2022, 'Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates', Science, 377, pp. 1440 - 1444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abo3856

Lee M; Powell JR; Oberle B; Unda F; Mansfield SD; Dalrymple R; Rigg J; Cornwell WK; Zanne AE, 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

Callaghan CT; Nakagawa S; Cornwell WK, 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117920119

Wijas BJ; Lim S; Cornwell WK, 2022, 'Continental-scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies', Ecography, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05902

Tam J; Lagisz M; Cornwell W; Nakagawa S, 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

Lee JS; Cornwell WK; Kingsford RT, 2022, 'Rainforest bird communities threatened by extreme fire', Global Ecology and Conservation, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01985

Falster D; Gallagher R; Wenk EH; Wright IJ; Indiarto D; Andrew SC; Baxter C; Lawson J; Allen S; Fuchs A; Monro A; Kar F; Adams MA; Ahrens CW; Alfonzetti M; Angevin T; Apgaua DMG; Arndt S; Atkin OK; Atkinson J; Auld T; Baker A; von Balthazar M; Bean A; Blackman CJ; Bloomfield K; Bowman DMJS; Bragg J; Brodribb TJ; Buckton G; Burrows G; Caldwell E; Camac J; Carpenter R; Catford JA; Cawthray GR; Cernusak LA; Chandler G; Chapman AR; Cheal D; Cheesman AW; Chen SC; Choat B; Clinton B; Clode PL; Coleman H; Cornwell WK; Cosgrove M; Crisp M; Cross E; Crous KY; Cunningham S; Curran T; Curtis E; Daws MI; DeGabriel JL; Denton MD; Dong N; Du P; Duan H; Duncan DH; Duncan RP; Duretto M; Dwyer JM; Edwards C; Esperon-Rodriguez M; Evans JR; Everingham SE; Farrell C; Firn J; Fonseca CR; French BJ; Frood D; Funk JL; Geange SR; Ghannoum O; Gleason SM; Gosper CR; Gray E; Groom PK; Grootemaat S; Gross C; Guerin G; Guja L; Hahs AK; Harrison MT; Hayes PE; Henery M; Hochuli D; Howell J; Huang G; Hughes L; Huisman J; Ilic J; Jagdish A; Jin D; Jordan G; Jurado E; Kanowski J; Kasel S; Moles A; Ooi M; Sauquet HJX, 2021, 'AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, 8, pp. 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6

Baxter C; Mallen-Cooper M; Lyons MB; Cornwell WK, 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

Mallen-Cooper M; Cornwell WK, 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

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