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
  • extinction risk and large-scale conservation
  • the link between molecular evolution and diversification
  • evolution of languages and linguistic diversity
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Latest Publications


Skeels A, Dinnage R, Medina I, Cardillo M. (in press) Ecological interactions shape the evolution of flower colour in communities across a temperate biodiversity hotspot. Evolution Letters

Bromham L, Skeels A, Schneemann H, Dinnage R, Hua X (2021) There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk. Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01039-8

Cardillo, M. (2021) Clarifying the relationship between body size and extinction risk in amphibians by complete mapping of model space. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B

Warren DL, Matzke NJ, Cardillo M, Baumgartner J, Beaumont LJ, Turelli M, Glor R, Huron NA, Simões M, Iglesias TL, Dinnage R (2021) ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography. Ecography

Bromham L (2020) Causes of variation in rate of molecular evolution in “The Molecular Evolutionary Clock. Theory and Practice” ed Simon YW Ho. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030601805

Hua X, Bromham L (2020) Modelling colonization rates over time: generating null models and testing model adequacy in phylogenetic analyses of species assemblages. Evolution 74(12): 2605-2616 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14086

Ritchie AM, Hua X, Cardillo M, Yaxley KJ, DinnageR, Bromham L (2020) Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation. Diversity & Distributions https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13179

Bromham L., Hua X., Cardillo M. (2020) Macroevolutionary and macroecological approaches to understanding the evolution of stress tolerance in plants. Plant, Cell & Environment https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13857

Roberts SG, Killin A, Deb A, Sheard C, Greenhill SJ, Sinnemäki K, Segovia-Martín J, Nölle J, Berdicevskis A, Humphreys-Balkwill A, Little H, Opie C, Jacques G, Bromham L, Tinits P, Ross RM, Lee S, Gasser E, Calladine J, Spike M, Mann SF, Shcherbakova O, Singer R, Zhang S, Benítez-Burraco A, Kliesch C, Thomas-Colquhoun E, Skirgård H, Tamariz M, Passmore S, Pellard T, Jordan F (2020) CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution lzaa001, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001

Dinnage R., Skeels A., & Cardillo, M. (2020) Spatiophylogenetic modelling of extinction risk reveals evolutionary distinctiveness and brief flowering period as threats in a hotspot plant genus. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2817

Contacts

Prof. Lindell Bromham
Research School of Biology,
Building 46
Australian National University,
Acton, ACT 0200
Australia
Prof. Marcel Cardillo
Research School of Biology,
Building 46
Australian National University,
Acton, ACT 0200
Australia
Dr. Xia Hua
Mathematical Sciences Institute,
Building 145,
Australian National University,
Acton, ACT 0200
Australia
We are affiliated with the ANU/CSIRO Centre for Biodiversity Analysis and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language