Marcel Cardillo

Contacts

Contact email:marcel.cardillo@anu.edu.au

Contact phone:+61 2 6125 9035

Location:Rm W210, Level 2, RN Robertson Building (46)

Centre:Division of Ecology and Evolution

Group membership

Group Leader, Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography

Biography
Awards
Research
Publications

I did my PhD at the University of Queensland, then spent a few years in the UK, first at the Institute of Zoology, then at Imperial College London, before returning to Australia and joining ANU in 2008.

Macroevolution and Macroecology Group

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016
Transdisciplinary & Innovation Grant, 2016
Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, 2008
J G Russell Award, 2008
Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship (UK), 2005

Research interests

We work on a range of questions in macroecology, macroevolution, biogeography, community ecology, and conservation biology, mostly using a comparative or computational modelling approach. We are primarily interested in how we can infer the kinds of evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped the patterns of biodiversity that we see today.

For more details, please go to the webpage for the Macroevolution and Macroecology Group.

Projects

Principal investigator, Ecological processes in evolutionary radiations
Principal investigator, Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments
Principal investigator, Global patterns of biodiversity
Principal investigator, Patterns and correlates of extinction risk
Principal investigator, Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Australian plants

Selected recent publications

Bromham, L. & Cardillo, M. (2019) Origins of Biodiversity: An Introduction to Macroevolution and Macroecology. Oxford University Press

Hua, X., Greenhill, S., Cardillo, M., Schneeman, H. & Bromham, L. (2019) The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Communications 10:2047

Skeels, A. & Cardillo, M. (2019) Reconstructing the geography of speciation from contemporary biodiversity data. The American Naturalist 193: 240-255

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

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

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

Duchene, D. & Cardillo, M. (2015) Phylogenetic patterns in bird geographic distributions support the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Global Ecology & Biogeography 24: 1261-1268

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