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

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Latest Publications

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

Hua X, Bromham L (2018) Fitness. Encyclopedia of Ecology, 2nd Edition, ed. B Fath, Elsevier

Bromham L, Duchêne S, Hua, X, Ritchie A, Duchêne DA, Ho SYW (2017) Bayesian molecular dating: opening up the black box. Biological Reviews doi/10.1111/brv.12390/full

Cadotte, M. W., S. W. Livingstone, S.-L. E. Yasui, R. Dinnage, J.-t. Li, R. Marushia, J. Santangelo and W. Shu (2017) Explaining ecosystem multifunction with evolutionary models. Ecology doi: 10.1002/ecy.2045

Greenhill, S. J., Wu, C.-H. , Hua, X., Dunn, M., Levinson, S.C. and Gray, R.D. (2017). Evolutionary dynamics of language systems. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1700388114

Bromham, L. (2017) Curiously the same: swapping tools between linguistics and evolutionary biology. Biology & Philosophy doi: 10.1007/s10539-017-9594-y

Duchêne DA, Hua X, Bromham L (2017) Phylogenetic estimates of diversification rate are affected by molecular rate variation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1111/jeb.13148 

Cardillo, M., Weston, P.H., Reynolds, Z.M., Olde, P.M., Mast, A.R., Lemmon, E., Lemmon, A.R., Bromham, L. (2017) The phylogeny and biogeography of Hakea (Proteaceae) reveals the role of biome shifts in a continental plant radiation. Evolution 71: 1928–1943 doi: 10.1111/evo.13276

Hua X, Bromham L (2017) Darwinism for the genomic age: connecting mutation to diversification. Frontiers in Genetics 8:12. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00012

Contacts

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