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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Lab News

Latest Publications
August 2017:
Lindell and Marcel have returned to the Canberra winter after spending their long service leave in warmer parts of the continent. We welcome a new arrival in the lab - Flavia Machado will be here for six months on a visiting studentship from Brazil. Zoe has just returned from presenting her work at ICCB 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.

February 2017:
Alex & Hilde have been attending the New Zealand Phylogenomics Meeting at Waiheke, and the Taming the BEAST in the South Pacific Workshop

December 2016:
Russell has been in Fremantle presenting new work on species distribution modelling at the Ecological Society of Australia's annual meeting. Congratulations to Ellen for completing a very successful honours year.

November 2016:
Lindell is presenting the first Centre for Biodiversity Analysis TEA (Topics in Evolutionary Analysis) Talk. Russell is attending a course on Model-based analysis of abundance data at UNSW, Hilde has finished a very productive 4 months working on linguistic diversity projects, and Zoe & Alex are presenting their work at the annual RSB PhD conference.

October 2016:
Marcel has become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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

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

Simonsen, A.K., Dinnage, R., Barrett, L.G., Prober, S.M. & Thrall, P.H. (2017) Symbiosis limits establishment of legumes outside their native range at a global scale. Nature Communications

Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (2017) Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera. Evolution 71: 582-594

Hua, X. (2016) The impact of seasonality on niche breadth, distribution range, and species richness: a theoretical exploration of Janzen's hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B

Bromham, L., Dinnage, R., Hua, X. (2016) Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success. Nature

Cardillo, M. & Skeels, A. (2016) Spatial, phylogenetic, environmental and biological components of variation in extinction risk: a case study using Banksia. PLoS One

Cardillo, M. & Warren, D.L. (2016) Analyzing patterns of spatial and niche overlap among species at multiple resolutions. Global Ecology & Biogeography

Day E, Hua X, Bromham L. (2016) Is specialization an evolutionary dead-end? Testing for differences in speciation, extinction and trait transition rates across diverse phylogenies of specialists and generalists. Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Hua X, Bromham L. (2016) Phylometrics: An R package for detecting macroevolutionary patterns, using phylogenetic metrics and backward tree simulation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Bromham, L., Hua, X. & Cardillo, M. (2016) Detecting macroevolutionary self-destruction from phylogenies. Systematic Biology

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