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
May 2018:
This month we got together with the Lanfear lab (ANU) and Ho lab (USyd) for the inaugural E-BoP (Evolution at Bay of Plenty) retreat at beautiful Jervis Bay. It was an enjoyable weekend of science, swimming, canoeing, eating and drinking!

January 2018:
Flavia has said goodbye and returned to Brazil after a productive 6 months with us. We wish her well with the final stages of her PhD!

November 2017:
Alex is presenting work for his first PhD chapter at the RSB postgraduate conference. Lindell & Xia have been at a language evolution workshop in Waiheke, New Zealand.

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.
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