William K. Cornwell

39.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
154 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

William K. Cornwell is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William K. Cornwell has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 55 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William K. Cornwell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (73 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (46 papers). William K. Cornwell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (73 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (46 papers). William K. Cornwell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. William K. Cornwell's co-authors include David D. Ackerly, Campbell O. Webb, Steven W. Kembel, Hélène Morlon, Simon P. Blomberg, Matthew R. Helmus, Peter D. Cowan, Dylan W. Schwilk, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen and Nathan J. B. Kraft and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William K. Cornwell

150 papers receiving 15.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

2010 4.6k citations William K. Cornwell et al. profile →
A TRAIT-BASED TEST FOR HABITAT FILTERING: CONVEX HULL VOLUME

2006 979 citations William K. Cornwell et al. Ecology profile →
Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

2009 916 citations William K. Cornwell et al. profile →
The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

2014 788 citations William K. Cornwell et al. profile →
A trait‐based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within‐ and among‐community components

2007 594 citations William K. Cornwell et al. profile →
Trait Evolution, Community Assembly, and the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities

2007 578 citations William K. Cornwell et al. profile →
Linking litter decomposition of above‐ and below‐ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide

2013 416 citations William K. Cornwell, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al. Journal of Ecology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
William K. Cornwell	7.8k	5.6k	5.3k	3.8k	3.7k	154	16.1k
Marc W. Cadotte	9.7k 1.2×	6.4k 1.1×	5.9k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	3.4k 0.9×	215	16.0k
Jeannine Cavender‐Bares	7.9k 1.0×	5.1k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	4.9k 1.3×	194	15.6k
Diane S. Srivastava	7.0k 0.9×	4.5k 0.8×	7.2k 1.4×	2.1k 0.6×	4.1k 1.1×	116	16.3k
Nathan G. Swenson	10.4k 1.3×	6.1k 1.1×	4.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	4.2k 1.1×	161	15.7k
Cyrille Violle	9.0k 1.2×	6.1k 1.1×	4.5k 0.8×	4.2k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	191	15.4k
Mark Vellend	8.5k 1.1×	5.6k 1.0×	7.1k 1.4×	2.7k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	132	16.2k
Jan Lepš	10.8k 1.4×	7.2k 1.3×	7.1k 1.3×	5.4k 1.4×	3.2k 0.8×	232	18.8k
Mark van Kleunen	8.8k 1.1×	8.1k 1.4×	4.1k 0.8×	7.1k 1.9×	2.3k 0.6×	301	16.7k
Campbell O. Webb	10.8k 1.4×	9.2k 1.6×	5.5k 1.1×	4.0k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	45	19.0k
Daniel Borcard	7.5k 1.0×	3.6k 0.6×	8.2k 1.6×	2.1k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	50	16.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cornwell, William K., et al.. (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(10). 2183–2197. 2 indexed citations

Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc, Catherine L. Parr, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, et al.. (2024). Biogeographical Variation in Termite Distributions Alters Global Deadwood Decay. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(12). 1 indexed citations

Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc, Steven Allison, Alexander W. Cheesman, et al.. (2024). Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: Termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients. Functional Ecology. 38(3). 546–559. 7 indexed citations

Cornwell, William K., et al.. (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. 61(12). 2946–2958. 2 indexed citations

Grootemaat, Saskia, et al.. (2024). Assessing the effect of tissue and fire‐response traits on plant growth rates post‐disturbance in eastern Australia. Functional Ecology. 39(1). 320–332. 1 indexed citations

Wenk, Elizabeth, William K. Cornwell, Fonti Kar, et al.. (2024). APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census. Australian Journal of Botany. 72(4). 3 indexed citations

Stephens, Ruby E., et al.. (2023). Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history. New Phytologist. 240(2). 880–891. 39 indexed citations

Mallen‐Cooper, Max, William K. Cornwell, Eve Slavich, et al.. (2023). Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey. Journal of Ecology. 111(10). 2194–2207. 4 indexed citations

Callaghan, Corey T., et al.. (2023). Multi‐taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Global Change Biology. 29(23). 6727–6740. 6 indexed citations

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Cornwell, William K., et al.. (2023). Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems. Ecology. 104(5). e4035–e4035. 4 indexed citations

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Cornwell, William K., et al.. (2022). Experimental evidence that leaf litter decomposability and flammability are decoupled across gymnosperm species. Journal of Ecology. 111(4). 761–772. 5 indexed citations

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Mallen‐Cooper, Max, Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, David J. Eldridge, et al.. (2022). Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 50(2). 406–417. 24 indexed citations

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Lee, Marissa R., Jeff R. Powell, Brad Oberle, et al.. (2022). Initial wood trait variation overwhelms endophyte community effects for explaining decay trajectories. Functional Ecology. 36(5). 1243–1257. 6 indexed citations

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Cornwell, William K., et al.. (2021). Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies. Ecography. 2022(1). 10 indexed citations

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Falster, Daniel S., Richard G. FitzJohn, Matthew W. Pennell, & William K. Cornwell. (2019). Datastorr: a workflow and package for delivering successive versions of 'evolving data' directly into R. GigaScience. 8(5). 2 indexed citations

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Werner, Gijsbert D. A., Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, William K. Cornwell, et al.. (2018). Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(20). 5229–5234. 81 indexed citations

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Douma, Jacob C., William K. Cornwell, & Peter M. van Bodegom. (2017). A new metric to assess the predictive accuracy of multinomial land cover models. Journal of Biogeography. 44(6). 1212–1224. 1 indexed citations

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Pennell, Matthew W., Richard G. FitzJohn, & William K. Cornwell. (2015). A simple approach for maximizing the overlap of phylogenetic and comparative data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(6). 751–758. 39 indexed citations

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Temme, Andries A., William K. Cornwell, Hans Cornelissen, & Rien Aerts. (2014). From the low past to the high future: Plant growth across CO2 levels. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11606. 1 indexed citations

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Cornwell, William K., Óscar Godoy, & Mark Westoby. (2008). The leaf economic spectrum drives litter decomposition within regional floras worldwide. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 2007. 1 indexed citations

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