Professor Marcel Cardillo
Areas of expertise
- Conservation And Biodiversity 050202
- Terrestrial Ecology 060208
- Biogeography And Phylogeography 060302
- Phylogeny And Comparative Analysis 060309
- Speciation And Extinction 060311
Publications
- Bromham, L, Dinnage, R, Skirgard, A et al. 2022, 'Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 6, pp. 163-173.
- Reynolds, Z, Boulton, R & Cardillo, M 2022, 'Unburnt patches maintain bird abundance and species richness following large wildfires in an Australian semiarid woodland ecosystem', Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 199, pp. 1-9.
- Ritchie, A, Hua, X, Cardillo, M et al. 2021, 'Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 27, pp. 164-178.
- 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 of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1944, pp. 8pp.
- Warren, D, Matzke, N, Cardillo, M et al. 2021, 'ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography', Ecography, vol. 44, pp. 1-8.
- Skeels, A, Dinnage, R, Medina Guzman, I et al. 2021, 'Ecological interactions shape the evolution of flower color in communities across a temperate biodiversity hotspot', Evolution Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 277-289.
- 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 of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 287, pp. 9pp.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X & Cardillo, M 2020, 'Macroevolutionary and macroecological approaches to understanding the evolution of stress tolerance in plants, Plant Cell and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13857
- Skeels, A & Cardillo, M 2019, 'Reconstructing the geography of speciation from contemporary biodiversity data', The American Naturalist, vol. 193, no. 2, pp. 240-255pp.
- Cardillo, M, Dinnage, R & McAlister, W 2019, 'The relationship between environmental niche breadth and geographic range size across plant species', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 97-109.
- Hua, X, Greenhill, S, Cardillo, M et al. 2019, 'The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity', Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 2047, pp. -.
- Dinnage, R, Simonsen, A, Barrett, L et al 2019, 'Larger plants promote a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria associated with an Australian endemic legume', Journal of Ecology, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 977-991.
- Skeels, A & Cardillo, M 2019, 'Equilibrium and non-equilibrium phases in the radiation of Hakea and the drivers of diversity in Mediterranean-type ecosystems', Evolution, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 1392-1410.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2019, Origins of Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, UK.
- Skeels, A, Esquerré, D & Cardillo, M 2019, 'Alternative pathways to diversity across ecologically distinct lizard radiations', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 454-469.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X, Cardillo, M et al 2018, 'Parasites and politics: Why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 1-22pp.
- Skeels, A & Cardillo, M 2017, 'Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera', Evolution, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 582-594pp.
- Cardillo, M, Weston, P, Reynolds, Z et al 2017, 'The phylogeny and biogeography of Hakea (Proteaceae) reveals the role of biome shifts in a continental plant radiation', Evolution, vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 1928-1943pp..
- Bromham, L, Hua, X & Cardillo, M 2016, 'Detecting Macroevolutionary Self-Destruction from Phylogenies', Systematic Biology, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 109-127.
- Cardillo, M & Warren, D 2016, 'Analysing patterns of spatial and niche overlap among species at multiple resolutions', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 951-963.
- Cardillo, M & Skeels, A 2016, 'Spatial, Phylogenetic, Environmental and Biological Components of Variation in Extinction Risk: A Case Study Using Banksia', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 11, no. 5, pp. e0154431-e0154431.
- Cardillo, M 2015, 'Geographic range shifts do not erase the historic signal of speciation in mammals', The American Naturalist, vol. 185, no. 3, pp. 343-353.
- Meijaard, E, Cardillo, M, Meijaard, E et al 2015, 'Geographic bias in citation rates of conservation research', Conservation Biology, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 920-925.
- Cardillo, M, Bromham, L & Greenhill, S 2015, 'Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1809, pp. 20142986-20142986.
- Duchene Garzon, D & Cardillo, M 2015, 'Phylogenetic patterns in the geographic distributions of birds support the tropical conservatism hypothesis', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1261-1268.
- Saslis-Lagoudakis, H, Cowman, P, Cardillo, M et al. 2014, 'Biogeography: multidisciplinary approaches in space and time', Frontiers of Biogeography, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 60-62.
- Meijaard, E, Sheil, D & Cardillo, M 2014, 'Conservation: focus on implementation', Nature, vol. 516, no. 7529, pp. 37-37.
- Hanna, E & Cardillo, M 2014, 'Island mammal extinctions are determined by interactive effects of life history, island biogeography and mesopredator suppression', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 395-404.
- Hanna, E & Cardillo, M 2014, 'Clarifying the relationship between torpor and anthropogenic extinction risk in mammals', Journal of Zoology, vol. 293, no. 3, pp. 211-217.
- Warren, D, Cardillo, M, Rosauer, D et al. 2014, 'Mistaking geography for biology: Inferring processes from species distributions', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 572-580.
- Cardillo, M & Pratt, R 2013, 'Evolution of a hotspot genus: Geographic variation in speciation and extinction rates in Banksia (Proteaceae)', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 13, no. 155, pp. 155-155.
- Hanna, E & Cardillo, M 2012, 'A comparison of current and reconstructed historic geographic range sizes as predictors of extinction risk in Australian mammals**', Biological Conservation, vol. 158, pp. 196-204.
- 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, vol. 158, pp. 196–204
- Cardillo, M & Meijaard, E 2012, 'Are comparative studies of extinction risk useful for conservation?', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 167-171.
- Di Marco, M, Cardillo, M, Possingham, H et al 2012, 'A novel approach for global mammal extinction risk reduction', Conservation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 134-141.
- Bromham, L, Lanfear, R, Cassey, P et al 2012, 'Reconstructing past species assemblages reveals the changing patterns and drivers of extinction through time', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 279, no. 1744, pp. 4024-4032.
- 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, vol. 12, pp. 1-10.
- Cardillo, M 2011, 'Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology', Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society: B- Biological Sciences, vol. 366, no. 1577, pp. 2545-2553.
- Cardillo, M & Meijaard, E 2010, 'Phylogeny and co-occurrence of mammal species on Southeast Asian islands', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 465-474.
- Dickman, C, Pimm, S & Cardillo, M 2007, 'The pathology of biodiversity loss: the practice of conservation', in David W. Macdonald, Katrina Service (ed.), Key Topics in Conservation Biology, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 1-16.
- Cardillo, M 2002, 'Body size and latitudinal gradients in regional diversity of new world birds', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59-65.
- Cardillo, M & Lister, A 2002, 'Evolutionary biology: Death in the slow lane', Nature, vol. 419, no. 6906, pp. 440-441.
- Cardillo, M & Bromham, L 2001, 'Body size and risk of extinction in Australian mammals', Conservation Biology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1435-1440.
- Cardillo, M, Macdonald, D & Rushton, S 1999, 'Predicting mammal species richness and distributions: Testing the effectiveness of satellite-derived land cover data', Landscape Ecology, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 423-435.
- Cardillo, M 1999, 'Latitude and rates of diversification in birds and butterflies', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 266, no. 1425, pp. 1221-1225.
- Bromham, L, Cardillo, M, Bennett, A et al 1999, 'Effects of stock grazing on the ground invertebrate fauna of woodland remnants', Austral Ecology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 199-207.
- Bielby, J, Cardillo, M, Cooper, N et al 2010, 'Modelling extinction risk in multispecies data sets: phylogenetically independent contrasts versus decision trees', Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 113-127.
- Diniz-Filho, J, Rodriguez, M, Bini, L et al 2009, 'Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 36, pp. 2222-2236.
- Jones, K, Bielby, J, Cardillo, M et al. 2009, 'PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals', Ecology, vol. 90, no. 9, p. 2648.
- Cardillo, M, Mace, G, Gittleman, J et al 2008, 'The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 275, pp. 1441-1448.
- Cardillo, M, Gittleman, J & Purvis, A 2008, 'Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 275, pp. 1549-1556.
- Davies, T, Fritz, S, Grenyer, R et al 2008, 'Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105, pp. 11556-11563.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2007, 'Primates follow the 'island rule': implications for interpreting Homo floresiensis', Biology Letters, vol. 3, pp. 398-400.
- Bininda-Edmonds, O, Cardillo, M, Jones, K et al 2007, 'The delayed rise of present-day mammals', Nature, vol. 446, no. 7135, pp. 507-513.
- Bielby, J, Mace, G, Bininda-Emonds, O et al 2007, 'The Fast-Slow Continuum in Mammalian Life History: An Empirical Reevaluation', The American Naturalist, vol. 169, no. 6, pp. 748-757.
- Beck, R, Bininda-Emonds, O, Cardillo, M et al. 2006, 'A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 6, no. 93, pp. 1-14.
- Cardillo, M, Mace, G, Gittleman, J et al 2006, 'Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103, no. 11, pp. 4157-4161.
- Cardillo, M 2006, 'Disappearing forests and biodiversity loss: which areas should we protect?', International Forestry Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 251-255.
- Cardillo, M, Orme, C & Owens, I 2005, 'Testing for latitudinal bias in diversification rates: An example using New World birds', Ecology, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 2278-2287.
- Cardillo, M, Mace, G, Jones, K et al 2005, 'Evolution: Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species', Science, vol. 309, no. 5738, pp. 1239-1241.
- Cardillo, M, Mace, G & Purvis, A 2005, 'Problems of Studying Extinction Risks', Science, vol. 310, no. 2005, pp. 1276-1278.
- Cardillo, M, Bininda-Emonds, O, Boakes, E et al 2004, 'A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials', Journal of Zoology, vol. 264, pp. 11-31.
- Cardillo, M, Purvis, A, Sechrest, W et al 2004, 'Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivors', PLoS Biology, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 0909-0914.
- Cardillo, M, Huxtable, J & Bromham, L 2003, 'Geographic range size, life history and rates of diversification in Australian mammals', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 16, pp. 282-288.
- Bininda-Emonds, O, Jones, K, Price, S et al 2003, 'Supertrees Are a Necessary Not-So-Evil: A Comment on Gatesy et al.', Systematic Biology, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 724-729.
- Cardillo, M 2003, 'Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable?', Animal Conservation, vol. 6, pp. 63-69.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2003, 'Testing the link between the latitudinal gradient in species richness and rates of molecular evolution', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 16, pp. 200-207.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Evolutionary history and conservation of an iconic Australian plant group (Primary Investigator)
- Testing the links between ecological processes and evolutionary radiations (Primary Investigator)
- Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments (Secondary Investigator)
- Developing new methods for using distribution data to identify taxa that can tolerate extreme conditions (Secondary Investigator)
- Origins of a biodiversity hotspot flora: diversification of the Australian Proteaceae (Primary Investigator)
- Anatomy of a biodiversity hotspot: investigating the evolutionary and ecological basis of high plant diversity in southwestern Australia (Primary Investigator)
