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new prestigious PhD scholarship available

UNSW has announced another round of our prestigious PhD scholarship competition. We have been lucky enough to have been awarded one of these. This project comes with $40,000 per year stipend and $10,000 of research funding per year (for full

wcornwell May 29, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

New website for teaching quantitative skills

A few of us within the BEES, including members of the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and the Centre for Ecosystem Science, have been developing a wide range of tools to help with improving the quantitative skills of our students,

wcornwell June 9, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

A drone image of a recently burned shrubland

turned into a point cloud

wcornwell May 20, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

What’s happening at a pine species’ far Northern range edge?

What’s going on at at a species far northern range edge. A case study using Coulter Pine (which is pretty easy to find since it has the worlds largest pine cones). More info in this Ecography paper.

wcornwell June 16, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Between 45% and 48% of the world’s plant species are woody

Trying to scale up from data to estimates of the world requires a way to deal with sampling bias–we know a lot more about some parts of the world and some clades than others. More info from FitzJohn et al.

wcornwell June 10, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

A data-driven model for the evolution of N-fixing nodulation in plants

A data-driven model of the evolution of N-fixation: the data supports one gain of a precursor, about 100 million years ago, as underlying subsequent evolution of the root symbioses. See the full paper in Werner et al. 2014, Nature Communications.

wcornwell June 1, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

New GEB paper on the climate-independent decomposability of leaves and wood

A cool new Bayesian methodto separate the “species” part of decomposability from the climate and methods effects. Turns out that, among species, leaf decomposability is weakly but positively correlated with wood decomposability. This is mostly driven by gynomsperms–very, very recalcitrant

wcornwell August 27, 2014 Uncategorized Read more

New paper with Andrew Letten at Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A new paper from Andrew Letten and myself on the scaling of functional and phylogenetic difference now in early view at MEE

wcornwell August 11, 2014 Uncategorized Read more

“How do trees survive winter” video

A super cool animated video based (in part) on our recent paper.

wcornwell August 4, 2014 Uncategorized Read more

New slides for #ATBC14 talk on the scaling of phylogenetic and functional difference

Some thoughts on the scaling of phylogenetic and functional difference:Slides from my recent ATBC talk are now available here. I am using a sort of experimental markdown-to-html slide generator, so if it doesn’t work in your browser please let me

wcornwell August 11, 2014 Uncategorized Read more
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  • new prestigious PhD scholarship available
  • New website for teaching quantitative skills
  • A drone image of a recently burned shrubland
  • What’s happening at a pine species’ far Northern range edge?
  • Between 45% and 48% of the world’s plant species are woody
  • A data-driven model for the evolution of N-fixing nodulation in plants

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