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 of Proteaceae
  • evolution of salt tolerance in plants
  • extinction risk in mammals
  • the link between molecular evolution and diversification
  • community phylogenetics

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Lab News

Latest Publications
09/09/2016: Marcel has become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

23/08/2016: Marcel is speaking at the first RSB public forum on Australia's biodiversity

10/08/2016: Hilde Schneeman joins us for 4 months to work on a global language diversity project

22/07/2016: Russell & Marcel (together with Gavin Huttley & Owain Edwards) have been awarded a CBA Ignition Grant, "Characterizing the evolutionary and ecological diversity of invertebrates in the Monsoonal vine thickets of the Kimberley"

10/07/2016: Lindell is presenting a talk in the David Penny & Mike Hendy Symposium at the SMBE, Gold Coast

30/06/2016: Lindell, Russell and Xia's paper on interdisciplinarity is published in Nature today. Read the Nature commentary article here

27/05/2016: Keaghan has submitted his honours thesis and is having a well-earned break

04/05/2016: Lindell, Keaghan, Russell & Marcel are all presenting work in the Evolutionary History & Conservation conference

27/04/2016: Lindell, Marcel & Xia (together with Simon Greenhill) have been awarded a Transdisciplinary & Innovation Grant from the ARC CoE for the Dynamics of Language
Hua, X. (in press) 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

Moray, C., Goolsby, E., Bromham, L. (2015) The phylogenetic association between salt tolerance and heavy metal hyperaccumulation in angiosperms. Evolutionary Biology

Bromham, L. (2015) Testing hypotheses in macroevolution. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Duchene, D. & Cardillo, M. (2015) Phylogenetic patterns in bird geographic distributions support the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Global Ecology & Biogeography

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