Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

By William K. Cornwell, J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. Allison, Jürgen Bauhus, P. Eggleton, C. Preston, Fiona R. Scarff, J. Weedon, Christian Wirth, A. Zanne. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short‐term method to study long‐term wood decomposition (2012, background): “Nevertheless, these results contrast with recent studies (e.g. van Geffen et al. 2010) or literature surveys (Cornwell et al. 2009;Weedon et al. 2009), which did not find very strong predictive power of lignin with respect to WD decomposition rates.”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “However, current-generation DGVMs do not yet incorporate continuous variation in plant traits among plant species or types (Cornwell et al. 2009).”
Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species (2015, background): “Functional Ecology © 2015 British Ecological Society process (Cornwell et al. 2009).”
Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species (2012, background): “Denser wood requires greater construction costs (Enquist et al. 1999), but confers greater resistance to mechanical damage and pathogen attack, leading to slower growth and lower mortality rates (Falster 2006; Poorter et al. 2008; Cornwell et al. 2009).”
Decomposition trajectories of diverse litter types: a model selection analysis (2014, methodology): “As well as being used to summarize empirical data, the simpler versions of these models are often applied as components of global scale models of the carbon cycle (see table 3 in Cornwell et al. 2009).”
How much of the world is woody? (2014, background): “We know about its mechanical properties and developmental pathways, its patterns of decomposition and their effects on ecosystem function (Cornwell et al. 2009) and that *Correspondence author: E-mail: mwpennell@gmail.”
Linking microbial community composition to C loss rates during wood decomposition (2017, background): “Various plant traits have been examined in a number of case studies (Cornwell et al., 2009; Weedon et al., 2009; Pietsch et al., 2014), but there have been very few studies to explore the relationship between microbial community composition, function and wood quality in different stages of wood deco”
A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability (2012, background): “One major aim of ecology is to model how functional features of vegetations differing in species composition feed back to soil carbon turnover, and thereby atmospheric chemistry and climate, in different biomes (Sitch et al. 2003; Cornwell et al. 2009).”
Independent effects of host and environment on the diversity of wood‐inhabiting fungi (2018, background): “Especially wood of gymnosperms and angiosperms differ in numerous properties (Cornwell et al., 2009; Kahl et al., 2017), and many wood- decaying fungi show preferences for one of these two major plant lineages (Gilbertson, 1980; Hibbett & Donoghue, 2001; Hoppe et al., 2015).”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “…differences in wood properties; when exposed to a common environment, gymnosperm wood decomposes at roughly half the rate of angiosperm wood (perhaps due to gymnosperms’ lower nutrient and higher lignin contents, differences in fine wood structure, etc. [Cornwell et al. 2009, Weedon et al. 2009]).”