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William K. Cornwell

UNSW Sydney · AU
Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecological Modeling
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.
h-index
72
citations
40,212
works
297
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Defining the pyro‐thermal niche: do seed traits, ecosystem type and phylogeny influence thermal thresholds in seeds with physical dormancy?
New Phytologist 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Fire ecology database for documenting plant responses to fire events in Australia
Scientific Data 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
The Role of Deadwood in the Carbon Cycle: Implications for Models, Forest Management, and Future Climates
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2024cited by 29position: middledoi
Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: Termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients
Functional Ecology 2024cited by 19position: middledoi
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 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter
New Phytologist 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
Symbiotic status alters fungal eco‐evolutionary offspring trajectories
Ecology Letters 2023cited by 26position: middledoi
Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates
Science 2022cited by 144position: middledoi
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Scientific Data 2022cited by 114position: middledoi
The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier
PLoS Biology 2022cited by 97position: middledoi
Coevolutionary legacies for plant decomposition
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2022cited by 41position: middledoi
Initial wood trait variation overwhelms endophyte community effects for explaining decay trajectories
Functional Ecology 2022cited by 10position: middledoi
AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora
Scientific Data 2021cited by 194position: middledoi
Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome
Nature Communications 2020cited by 110position: middledoi
Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications
eLife 2020cited by 104position: middledoi
A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space
Scientific Data 2020cited by 64position: middledoi
Author Correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space
Scientific Data 2020cited by 1position: middledoi
Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait‐based approach to plant‐associated fungi
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2019cited by 277position: middledoi
Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C<sub>3</sub> plants worldwide
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2018cited by 125position: firstdoi
Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2018cited by 77position: middledoi
Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants
Nature Plants 2017cited by 423position: middledoi
<i>Corrigendum to</i> : New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide
Australian Journal of Botany 2016cited by 714position: middledoi
Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits
The American Naturalist 2015cited by 181position: middledoi
A simple approach for maximizing the overlap of phylogenetic and comparative data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2015cited by 67position: lastdoi
Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species
Journal of Ecology 2015cited by 62position: middledoi
Zanne et al. reply
Nature 2015cited by 2position: middledoi
A simple approach for maximizing the overlap of phylogenetic and comparative data
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2015cited by 1position: lastdoi
Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?
Journal of Vegetation Science 2014cited by 472position: middledoi
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages
Journal of Ecology 2014cited by 139position: firstdoi
How much of the world is woody?
Journal of Ecology 2014cited by 108position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Amy E. Zanne · Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies9 papers (2013–2024)Richard G. FitzJohn · Institute of Public Health Bengaluru7 papers (2013–2015)Matthew W. Pennell · University of Southern California5 papers (2014–2015)Jeff R. Powell · Freie Universität Berlin4 papers (2019–2024)Baptiste Wijas · Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies4 papers (2024–2024)Ian J. Wright · Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust4 papers (2013–2018)Peter B. Reich · University of Göttingen3 papers (2013–2018)Mark K. J. Ooi · UNSW Sydney3 papers (2024–2025)Peter F. Stevens · University of Missouri3 papers (2013–2015)Johannes H. C. Cornelissen · Southwest University3 papers (2014–2018)David C. Tank · University of Idaho3 papers (2013–2015)Jeremy M. Beaulieu · University of Arkansas at Fayetteville2 papers (2013–2015)Michelle R. Leishman · Macquarie University2 papers (2013–2015) · 2 papers (2013–2015) · 2 papers (2013–2015)Andre Calaminus · University of Florida2 papers (2013–2015) · 2 papers (2013–2015)Jacek Oleksyn · Tokyo University of Agriculture2 papers (2013–2015) · 2 papers (2024–2024)Jonathan M. Eastman · University of Idaho2 papers (2013–2015)