Macroevolution and Macroecology Group
Research School of Biology, Australian National University

Our Research

We study the evolutionary and ecological processes responsible for generating patterns of biodiversity. Our research covers a wide range of questions, taxonomic groups and spatial scales. Some current topics of interest include: 
  • diversification and biogeography of Proteaceae
  • environmental niche evolution in plants
  • the link between molecular evolution and diversification
  • evolution of languages and linguistic diversity
Out now!
Coming in 2019!

Latest Publications

Hua, X., Greenhill, S., Cardillo, M., Schneeman, H. & Bromham, L. (in press) The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Communications

Bromham, L. (2019) Six impossible things before breakfast: assumptions, models and belief in molecular dating. Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Meakins, F., Hua, X., Algy, C., Bromham, L. (2019) Birth of a contact language did not favour simplification Language

Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (2019) Reconstructing the geography of speciation from contemporary biodiversity data. The American Naturalist

Cardillo, M., McAlister, W. & Dinnage, R. (2018) The relationship between environmental niche breadth and geographic range size across plant species. Journal of Biogeography

Dinnage, R., Simonsen, A.K., Barrett, L.G., Cardillo, M., Raisbeck-Brown, N., Thrall, P.H., Prober, S.M. (2018) Larger plants host a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in an endemic legume. Journal of Ecology

Warren, D.L., Beaumont, L., Dinnage, R., Baumgartner, J. (2018) New methods for measuring ENM breadth and overlap in environmental space. Ecography

Bromham L,  Hua X, Cardillo M, Schneemann H, Greenhill SJ (2018) Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation. Royal Society Open Science

Greenhill SJ, Hua X, Welsh CF, Schneemann H, Bromham L. (2018) Population size and the rate of language evolution: a test across Indo-European, Austronesian and Bantu languages. Frontiers in Psychology

Contacts

Prof. Lindell Bromham
Research School of Biology
Australian National University
Building 116, Daley Rd
Canberra, ACT, 0200
Australia
Assoc. Prof. Marcel Cardillo
Research School of Biology
Australian National University
Building 116, Daley Rd
Canberra, ACT, 0200
Australia
We are affiliated with the ANU/CSIRO Centre for Biodiversity Analysis and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Lanuage