By Professor Will Cornwell

Journal articles

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

Grootemaat S; Wright IJ; van Bodegom PM; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK, 2015, 'Burn or rot: Leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species', Functional Ecology, 29, pp. 1486 - 1497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12449

Liu G; Cornwell WK; Pan X; Ye D; Liu F; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Decomposition of 51 semidesert species from wide-ranging phylogeny is faster in standing and sand-buried than in surface leaf litters: implications for carbon and nutrient dynamics', Plant and Soil, 396, pp. 175 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2595-1

Cornwell WK, 2015, 'Toward a better understanding of variation in the amount of leaf area in vegetation', Journal of Vegetation Science, 26, pp. 1028 - 1029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12343

Temme AA; Liu JC; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Aerts R, 2015, 'Winners always win: Growth of a wide range of plant species from low to future high CO2', Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 4949 - 4961, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1687

Liu G; Cornwell WK; Cao K; Hu Y; Van Logtestijn RSP; Yang S; Xie X; Zhang Y; Ye D; Pan X; Ye X; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species', Journal of Ecology, 103, pp. 1214 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12427

Werner GDA; Cornwell WK; Cornelissen JHC; Kiers ET, 2015, 'Evolutionary signals of symbiotic persistence in the legume-rhizobia mutualism', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, pp. 10262 - 10269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1424030112

Pan X; Song YB; Liu GF; Hu YK; Ye XH; Cornwell WK; Prinzing A; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Functional traits drive the contribution of solar radiation to leaf litter decomposition among multiple arid-zone species', Scientific Reports, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13217

Pennell MW; Fitzjohn RG; Cornwell WK; Harmon LJ, 2015, 'Model adequacy and the macroevolution of angiosperm functional traits', American Naturalist, 186, pp. E33 - E50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/682022

Ackerly DD; Cornwell WK; Weiss SB; Flint LE; Flint AL, 2015, 'A geographic mosaic of climate change impacts on terrestrial vegetation: Which areas are most at risk?', Plos One, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130629

Maire V; Wright IJ; Prentice IC; Batjes NH; Bhaskar R; van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Ellsworth D; Niinemets Ü; Ordonez A; Reich PB; Santiago LS, 2015, 'Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, pp. 706 - 717, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12296

Chardon NI; Cornwell WK; Flint LE; Flint AL; Ackerly DD, 2015, 'Topographic, latitudinal and climatic distribution of Pinus coulteri: Geographic range limits are not at the edge of the climate envelope', Ecography, 38, pp. 590 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00780

Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; Fitzjohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O'Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; Royer DL; Soltis DE; Stevens PF; Westoby M; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Bertin RI; Calaminus A; Govaerts R; Hemmings F; Leishman MR; Oleksyn J; Soltis PS; Swenson NG; Warman L; Beaulieu JM, 2015, 'Erratum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments (Nature (2014) 506 (89-92) (Doi:10.1038/nature12872))', Nature, 521, pp. 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14371

Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; Fitzjohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O'Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; Royer DL; Soltis DE; Stevens PF; Westoby M; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Bertin RI; Calaminus A; Govaerts R; Hemmings F; Leishman MR; Oleksyn J; Soltis PS; Swenson NG; Warman L; Beaulieu JM, 2015, 'Zanne et al. reply', Nature, 521, pp. E6 - E7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14394

Cornwell WK; Elvira A; van Kempen L; van Logtestijn RSP; Aptroot A; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: The importance of litter particle size', New Phytologist, 206, pp. 672 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13317

Soudzilovskaia NA; Douma JC; Akhmetzhanova AA; van Bodegom PM; Cornwell WK; Moens EJ; Treseder KK; Tibbett M; Wang YP; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, pp. 371 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12272

Ye X; Tang S; Cornwell WK; Gao S; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Impact of land-use on carbon storage as dependent on soil texture: Evidence from a desertified dryland using repeated paired sampling design', Journal of Environmental Management, 150, pp. 489 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.12.039

Ye XH; Pan X; Cornwell WK; Gao SQ; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2015, 'Divergence of above- and belowground C and N pool within predominant plant species along two precipitation gradients in North China', Biogeosciences, 12, pp. 457 - 465, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-457-2015

Valladares F; Matesanz S; Guilhaumon F; Araújo MB; Balaguer L; Benito-Garzón M; Cornwell W; Gianoli E; van Kleunen M; Naya DE; Nicotra AB; Poorter H; Zavala MA, 2014, 'The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change', Ecology Letters, 17, pp. 1351 - 1364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12348

Zanne AE; Tank DC; Cornwell WK; Eastman JM; Smith SA; FitzJohn RG; McGlinn DJ; O’Meara BC; Moles AT; Reich PB; Royer DL; Soltis DE; Stevens PF; Westoby M; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Bertin RI; Calaminus A; Govaerts R; Hemmings FA; Leishman MR; Oleksyn J; Soltis PS; Swenson NG; Warman L; Beaulieu JM, 2014, 'Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments', Nature, 514, pp. 394 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13842

Pan X; Cornelissen JHC; Zhao WW; Liu GF; Hu YK; Prinzing A; Dong M; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'Experimental evidence that the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model best describes the evolution of leaf litter decomposability', Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 3339 - 3349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1115

Werner GDA; Cornwell WK; Sprent JI; Kattge J; Kiers ET, 2014, 'A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms', Nature Communications, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5087

Cornwell WK; Westoby M; Falster DS; Fitzjohn RG; O'Meara BC; Pennell MW; McGlinn DJ; Eastman JM; Moles AT; Reich PB; Tank DC; Wright IJ; Aarssen L; Beaulieu JM; Kooyman RM; Leishman MR; Miller ET; Niinemets U; Oleksyn J; Ordonez A; Royer DL; Smith SA; Stevens PF; Warman L; Wilf P; Zanne AE, 2014, 'Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 345 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12208

Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'The Tree of Life in ecosystems: Evolution of plant effects on carbon and nutrient cycling', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 269 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12217

Liu G; Cornwell WK; Pan X; Cao K; Ye X; Huang Z; Dong M; Cornelissen JHC, 2014, 'Understanding the ecosystem implications of the angiosperm rise to dominance: Leaf litter decomposability among magnoliids and other basal angiosperms', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 337 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12192

Pietsch KA; Ogle K; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK; Bönisch G; Craine JM; Jackson BG; Kattge J; Peltzer DA; Penuelas J; Reich PB; Wardle DA; Weedon JT; Wright IJ; Zanne AE; Wirth C, 2014, 'Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: The role of functional traits within and across plant organs', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, pp. 1046 - 1057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12172

Fitzjohn RG; Pennell MW; Zanne AE; Stevens PF; Tank DC; Cornwell WK, 2014, 'How much of the world is woody?', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 1266 - 1272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12260

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