Marcel Cardillo: publications
BOOKS:
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (in press) Origins of Biodiversity: An Introduction to Macroevolution and Macroecology. Oxford University Press
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Dickman, C.R., Pimm, S. and Cardillo, M. (2007) The pathology of biodiversity loss: the practice of conservation. In: Macdonald, D.W. & Service, K. (eds.) Key Topics in Conservation Biology. pp. 1-16 Blackwell
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Beck, R.M.D., Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., Grenyer, R., Jones, K.E., Mace, G.M., Price, S.A., and Purvis, A. (2006) The Tree of Life: deciphering the puzzle of relationships between mammals using supertrees. In: Macdonald, D.W. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Mammals. pp. xxxii-¬xxxiii Oxford University Press
Purvis, A., Cardillo, M., Grenyer, R. and Collen, B. (2005) Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology, threat and scale. In: Purvis, A., Brooks, T. & Gittleman, J. (eds.) Phylogeny and Conservation. pp. 295-316 Cambridge University Press
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Jones, K.E., Price, S., Cardillo, M., Grenyer, R. and Purvis, A. (2004) Garbage in, garbage out: data issues in supertree construction. Ch. 1 In: Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P.(ed) Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree cccof Life. pp. 1-13 Kluwer Academic Press
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Equilibrium and non-equilibrium phases in the radiation of Hakea and the drivers of diversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Evolution
Hua, X., Greenhill, S., Cardillo, M., Schneeman, H. & Bromham, L. (in review) The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution
Dinnage, R. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Habitat loss is information loss: Species distribution models are compromised in anthropogenic landscapes. Scientific Reports
Reynolds, Z.K.M., Boulton, R.L. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Long-term monitoring reveals combined effects of fire and rainfall on species richness and phylogenetic diversity in semi-arid bird communities. Landscape Ecology
Cardillo, M., McAlister, W. & Dinnage, R. (in press) The relationship between environmental niche breadth and geographic range size across plant species. Journal of Biogeography
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (in press) Reconstructing the geography of speciation from contemporary biodiversity data. The American Naturalist
Dinnage, R., Simonsen, A.K., Barrett, L.G., Cardillo, M., Raisbeck-Brown, N., Thrall, P.H., Prober, S.M. (2018) Larger plants host a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in an endemic legume. Journal of Ecology pdf
Bromham L, Hua X, Cardillo M, Schneemann H, Greenhill SJ (2018) Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation. Royal Society Open Science pdf
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 pdf Evolution digest article
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (2017) Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera. Evolution 71: 582-594 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Warren, D.L. (2016) Analyzing patterns of spatial and niche overlap among species at multiple resolutions. Global Ecology & Biogeography 25: 951-963 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Skeels, A. (2016) Spatial, phylogenetic, environmental and biological components of variation in extinction risk: a case study using Banksia. PLoS One pdf
Bromham, L., Hua, X. & Cardillo, M. (2016) Detecting macroevolutionary self-destruction from phylogenies. Systematic Biology pdf
Duchene, D. & Cardillo, M. (2015) Phylogenetic patterns in bird geographic distributions support the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Global Ecology & Biogeography 24: 1261-1268 pdf
Cardillo, M., Bromham, L., Greenhill, S. (2015) Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 282: 20142986 pdf
Meijaard, E., Cardillo, M., Meijaard, E.M., Possingham, H.P. (2015) Geographic bias in citation rates of conservation research. Conservation Biology 29: 920-925 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2015) Geographic range shifts do not erase the historic signal of speciation in mammals. The American Naturalist 185: 343-353 pdf
Meijaard, E., Sheil, D., Cardillo, M. (2014) Conservation: focus on implementation (correspondence) Nature 516:37 pdf
Warren, D.L., Cardillo, M., Rosauer, D.F., Bolnick, D.I. (2014) Mistaking geography for biology: inferring processes from species distributions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29: 572-580 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas. Biology Letters 10: 20131066 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Clarifying the relationship between torpor and anthropogenic extinction risk in mammals. J. Zool. Lond. 293: 211-217 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Island mammal extinctions are determined by interactive effects of life history, island biogeography and mesopredator suppression. Global Ecology & Biogeography 23: 395-404 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Pratt, R.C. (2013) Evolution of a hotspot genus: geographic variation in speciation and extinction rates in Banksia (Proteaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 155 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2013) A comparison of current and reconstructed historic geographic range sizes as predictors of extinction risk in Australian mammals. Biological Conservation 158:196–204 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2012) The phylogenetic signal of species co-occurrence in high-diversity shrublands: different patterns for fire-killed and fire-resistant species. BMC Ecology, 12:22 pdf
Bromham, L., Lanfear, R., Cassey, P.B., Gibb, G., Cardillo, M. (2012) Reconstructing past species assemblages reveals the changing patterns and drivers of extinction through time. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 279: 4024-4032 pdf
DiMarco, M., Cardillo, M. Possingham, HP., Wilson, KA, Blomberg, SP, Boitani, L., Rondinini, C. (2012) A novel approach for global mammal extinction risk reduction. Conservation Letters 5: 134-141 pdf
Cardillo M, and Meijaard E (2012) Are comparative studies of extinction risk useful for conservation? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27:167-171 pdf
Cardillo M. (2011) Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 366: 2545-2553 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Meijaard, E. (2010) Phylogeny and the co-occurrence of mammals on southeast Asian islands. Global Ecology & Biogeography 19: 465-474 pdf
Bielby, J., Cardillo, M., Cooper, N., Purvis, A. (2010) Modelling extinction risk in multispecies datasets: phylogenetically independent contrasts vs. decision trees. Biodiversity & Conservation 19:113-127 pdf
Jones K.E., Bielby, J., M. Cardillo, Fritz, S.A., O'Dell, J., Orme, C.D.L., Safi, K., Sechrest, W., Boakes, E.H., Carbone, C., Connolly, C., Cutts, M.J., Foster, J.K., Grenyer, R., Habib, M., Plaster, C.A., Price, S.A., Rigby, E.A., Rist, J., Teacher, A., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M. & Purvis, A. (2009) PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life history, ecology and geography of extant and recently extinct mammalian species. Ecology 90: 2648 pdf
Diniz-Filho J.A.F., Rodríguez M.A., Bini L.M., Olalla-Tarraga M.A., Cardillo M., Nabout J.C., Hortal J. & Hawkins B.A. (2009) Climate history, human impacts and global body size of carnivora at multiple evolutionary scales. Journal of Biogeography 36:2222-2236 pdf
Davies T.J., Fritz, S.A., Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M. and Purvis, A. (2008) Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:11564-11570 pdf
Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., & Purvis, A. (2008) Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 275:1549-1556 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E., Bielby, J. & Purvis, A. (2008) The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 275: 1441-1448 pdf
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (2007) Primates follow the “island rule”: implications for interpreting Homo floresiensis. Biology Letters 3: 398-400 pdf
Bielby, J., Mace, G.M., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E., Orme, C.D.L., Purvis, A. (2007) The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical re-evaluation. The American Naturalist 169: 748-757 pdf
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R., Price, S.A., Vos, R., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2007) The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446: 507-512 pdf
Beck , R.M.D., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Liu, F.R. & Purvis, A. (2006) A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:93 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2006) Disappearing forests and biodiversity loss: which areas should we protect? International Forestry Review 8: 251-256 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2006) Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 4157-4161 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M. & Purvis, A. (2005) Problems of studying extinction risk. Science 310: 1277-1278 (letter) pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Jones, K.E., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Sechrest, W., Orme, C.D.L. & Purvis, A. (2005) Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. Science 309: 1239-1241 pdf
Cardillo, M., Orme, D. & Owens, I.P.F. (2005) Testing for latitudinal bias in rates of species diversification: an example using New World birds. Ecology 86: 2278-2287 pdf
Cardillo, M., Purvis, A., Sechrest, W., Gittleman, J.L., Bielby, J. and Mace, G.M. (2004) Human population density and extinction risk in the World’s carnivores. PLoS Biology 2: 909-914 pdf
Cardillo, M., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Boakes, L., and Purvis, A. (2004) A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials. Journal of Zoology, London 264: 11-31 pdf
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Jones, K.E., Price, S., Grenyer, R., Cardillo, M., Habib, M., Purvis, A. and Gittleman, J. (2003) Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: a response to Gatesy et al. Systematic Biology 52: 724-729 pdf
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (2003) Testing the link between the latitudinal gradient in species richness and rates of molecular evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 200-207 pdf
Cardillo, M., Huxtable, J.S. and Bromham, L. (2003) Geographic range size, life history and rates of diversification in Australian mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 282-288 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2003) Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable? Animal Conservation 6: 63-69 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Lister, A.M. (2002) Death in the slow lane. Nature 419: 440-441 (news & views) pdf
Cardillo, M. (2002) The life-history basis of latitudinal diversity gradients: how do species traits vary from the poles to the equator? Journal of Animal Ecology 71: 79-87. pdf
Cardillo, M. (2002) Body size and latitudinal gradients in regional diversity of New World birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11: 59-66. pdf
Cardillo, M. & Bromham, L. (2001) Body size and risk of extinction in Australian mammals. Conservation Biology 15: 1435-1440 pdf
Cardillo, M. (1999) Latitude and rates of diversification in birds and butterflies. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 266: 1221-1226 pdf
Cardillo, M., Macdonald, D.W. and Rushton, S.P. (1999) Predicting mammal species richness and distributions: testing the effectiveness of satellite-derived land cover data. Landscape Ecology 14: 423-435 pdf
Bromham L., Cardillo, M., Bennett A.F and Elgar M. (1999) Effects of grazing by domestic stock on the ground invertebrate fauna of remnant woodlands. Australian Journal of Ecology 24: 199-208 pdf
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (in press) Origins of Biodiversity: An Introduction to Macroevolution and Macroecology. Oxford University Press
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Dickman, C.R., Pimm, S. and Cardillo, M. (2007) The pathology of biodiversity loss: the practice of conservation. In: Macdonald, D.W. & Service, K. (eds.) Key Topics in Conservation Biology. pp. 1-16 Blackwell
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Beck, R.M.D., Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., Grenyer, R., Jones, K.E., Mace, G.M., Price, S.A., and Purvis, A. (2006) The Tree of Life: deciphering the puzzle of relationships between mammals using supertrees. In: Macdonald, D.W. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Mammals. pp. xxxii-¬xxxiii Oxford University Press
Purvis, A., Cardillo, M., Grenyer, R. and Collen, B. (2005) Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology, threat and scale. In: Purvis, A., Brooks, T. & Gittleman, J. (eds.) Phylogeny and Conservation. pp. 295-316 Cambridge University Press
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Jones, K.E., Price, S., Cardillo, M., Grenyer, R. and Purvis, A. (2004) Garbage in, garbage out: data issues in supertree construction. Ch. 1 In: Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P.(ed) Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree cccof Life. pp. 1-13 Kluwer Academic Press
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Equilibrium and non-equilibrium phases in the radiation of Hakea and the drivers of diversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Evolution
Hua, X., Greenhill, S., Cardillo, M., Schneeman, H. & Bromham, L. (in review) The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution
Dinnage, R. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Habitat loss is information loss: Species distribution models are compromised in anthropogenic landscapes. Scientific Reports
Reynolds, Z.K.M., Boulton, R.L. & Cardillo, M. (in review) Long-term monitoring reveals combined effects of fire and rainfall on species richness and phylogenetic diversity in semi-arid bird communities. Landscape Ecology
Cardillo, M., McAlister, W. & Dinnage, R. (in press) The relationship between environmental niche breadth and geographic range size across plant species. Journal of Biogeography
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (in press) Reconstructing the geography of speciation from contemporary biodiversity data. The American Naturalist
Dinnage, R., Simonsen, A.K., Barrett, L.G., Cardillo, M., Raisbeck-Brown, N., Thrall, P.H., Prober, S.M. (2018) Larger plants host a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in an endemic legume. Journal of Ecology pdf
Bromham L, Hua X, Cardillo M, Schneemann H, Greenhill SJ (2018) Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation. Royal Society Open Science pdf
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 pdf Evolution digest article
Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (2017) Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera. Evolution 71: 582-594 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Warren, D.L. (2016) Analyzing patterns of spatial and niche overlap among species at multiple resolutions. Global Ecology & Biogeography 25: 951-963 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Skeels, A. (2016) Spatial, phylogenetic, environmental and biological components of variation in extinction risk: a case study using Banksia. PLoS One pdf
Bromham, L., Hua, X. & Cardillo, M. (2016) Detecting macroevolutionary self-destruction from phylogenies. Systematic Biology pdf
Duchene, D. & Cardillo, M. (2015) Phylogenetic patterns in bird geographic distributions support the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Global Ecology & Biogeography 24: 1261-1268 pdf
Cardillo, M., Bromham, L., Greenhill, S. (2015) Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 282: 20142986 pdf
Meijaard, E., Cardillo, M., Meijaard, E.M., Possingham, H.P. (2015) Geographic bias in citation rates of conservation research. Conservation Biology 29: 920-925 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2015) Geographic range shifts do not erase the historic signal of speciation in mammals. The American Naturalist 185: 343-353 pdf
Meijaard, E., Sheil, D., Cardillo, M. (2014) Conservation: focus on implementation (correspondence) Nature 516:37 pdf
Warren, D.L., Cardillo, M., Rosauer, D.F., Bolnick, D.I. (2014) Mistaking geography for biology: inferring processes from species distributions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29: 572-580 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas. Biology Letters 10: 20131066 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Clarifying the relationship between torpor and anthropogenic extinction risk in mammals. J. Zool. Lond. 293: 211-217 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2014) Island mammal extinctions are determined by interactive effects of life history, island biogeography and mesopredator suppression. Global Ecology & Biogeography 23: 395-404 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Pratt, R.C. (2013) Evolution of a hotspot genus: geographic variation in speciation and extinction rates in Banksia (Proteaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 155 pdf
Hanna, E. & Cardillo, M. (2013) A comparison of current and reconstructed historic geographic range sizes as predictors of extinction risk in Australian mammals. Biological Conservation 158:196–204 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2012) The phylogenetic signal of species co-occurrence in high-diversity shrublands: different patterns for fire-killed and fire-resistant species. BMC Ecology, 12:22 pdf
Bromham, L., Lanfear, R., Cassey, P.B., Gibb, G., Cardillo, M. (2012) Reconstructing past species assemblages reveals the changing patterns and drivers of extinction through time. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 279: 4024-4032 pdf
DiMarco, M., Cardillo, M. Possingham, HP., Wilson, KA, Blomberg, SP, Boitani, L., Rondinini, C. (2012) A novel approach for global mammal extinction risk reduction. Conservation Letters 5: 134-141 pdf
Cardillo M, and Meijaard E (2012) Are comparative studies of extinction risk useful for conservation? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27:167-171 pdf
Cardillo M. (2011) Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 366: 2545-2553 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Meijaard, E. (2010) Phylogeny and the co-occurrence of mammals on southeast Asian islands. Global Ecology & Biogeography 19: 465-474 pdf
Bielby, J., Cardillo, M., Cooper, N., Purvis, A. (2010) Modelling extinction risk in multispecies datasets: phylogenetically independent contrasts vs. decision trees. Biodiversity & Conservation 19:113-127 pdf
Jones K.E., Bielby, J., M. Cardillo, Fritz, S.A., O'Dell, J., Orme, C.D.L., Safi, K., Sechrest, W., Boakes, E.H., Carbone, C., Connolly, C., Cutts, M.J., Foster, J.K., Grenyer, R., Habib, M., Plaster, C.A., Price, S.A., Rigby, E.A., Rist, J., Teacher, A., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M. & Purvis, A. (2009) PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life history, ecology and geography of extant and recently extinct mammalian species. Ecology 90: 2648 pdf
Diniz-Filho J.A.F., Rodríguez M.A., Bini L.M., Olalla-Tarraga M.A., Cardillo M., Nabout J.C., Hortal J. & Hawkins B.A. (2009) Climate history, human impacts and global body size of carnivora at multiple evolutionary scales. Journal of Biogeography 36:2222-2236 pdf
Davies T.J., Fritz, S.A., Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M. and Purvis, A. (2008) Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:11564-11570 pdf
Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., & Purvis, A. (2008) Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 275:1549-1556 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E., Bielby, J. & Purvis, A. (2008) The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 275: 1441-1448 pdf
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (2007) Primates follow the “island rule”: implications for interpreting Homo floresiensis. Biology Letters 3: 398-400 pdf
Bielby, J., Mace, G.M., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E., Orme, C.D.L., Purvis, A. (2007) The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical re-evaluation. The American Naturalist 169: 748-757 pdf
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R., Price, S.A., Vos, R., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2007) The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446: 507-512 pdf
Beck , R.M.D., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Liu, F.R. & Purvis, A. (2006) A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:93 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2006) Disappearing forests and biodiversity loss: which areas should we protect? International Forestry Review 8: 251-256 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2006) Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 4157-4161 pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M. & Purvis, A. (2005) Problems of studying extinction risk. Science 310: 1277-1278 (letter) pdf
Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Jones, K.E., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Sechrest, W., Orme, C.D.L. & Purvis, A. (2005) Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. Science 309: 1239-1241 pdf
Cardillo, M., Orme, D. & Owens, I.P.F. (2005) Testing for latitudinal bias in rates of species diversification: an example using New World birds. Ecology 86: 2278-2287 pdf
Cardillo, M., Purvis, A., Sechrest, W., Gittleman, J.L., Bielby, J. and Mace, G.M. (2004) Human population density and extinction risk in the World’s carnivores. PLoS Biology 2: 909-914 pdf
Cardillo, M., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Boakes, L., and Purvis, A. (2004) A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials. Journal of Zoology, London 264: 11-31 pdf
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Jones, K.E., Price, S., Grenyer, R., Cardillo, M., Habib, M., Purvis, A. and Gittleman, J. (2003) Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: a response to Gatesy et al. Systematic Biology 52: 724-729 pdf
Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (2003) Testing the link between the latitudinal gradient in species richness and rates of molecular evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 200-207 pdf
Cardillo, M., Huxtable, J.S. and Bromham, L. (2003) Geographic range size, life history and rates of diversification in Australian mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 282-288 pdf
Cardillo, M. (2003) Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable? Animal Conservation 6: 63-69 pdf
Cardillo, M. & Lister, A.M. (2002) Death in the slow lane. Nature 419: 440-441 (news & views) pdf
Cardillo, M. (2002) The life-history basis of latitudinal diversity gradients: how do species traits vary from the poles to the equator? Journal of Animal Ecology 71: 79-87. pdf
Cardillo, M. (2002) Body size and latitudinal gradients in regional diversity of New World birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11: 59-66. pdf
Cardillo, M. & Bromham, L. (2001) Body size and risk of extinction in Australian mammals. Conservation Biology 15: 1435-1440 pdf
Cardillo, M. (1999) Latitude and rates of diversification in birds and butterflies. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 266: 1221-1226 pdf
Cardillo, M., Macdonald, D.W. and Rushton, S.P. (1999) Predicting mammal species richness and distributions: testing the effectiveness of satellite-derived land cover data. Landscape Ecology 14: 423-435 pdf
Bromham L., Cardillo, M., Bennett A.F and Elgar M. (1999) Effects of grazing by domestic stock on the ground invertebrate fauna of remnant woodlands. Australian Journal of Ecology 24: 199-208 pdf