M. Cardillo

Adapting to extremes: reconstructing evolution in response to changing climate over time and space in the diverse Australian plant genus Acacia

This study uses a new method to show Acacia plants evolved greater tolerance to aridity and salinity as Australia became drier, enabling their spread across diverse habitats.

Clarifying the relationship between body size and extinction risk in amphibians by complete mapping of model space

This study uses Specification Curve Analysis to clarify the relationship between body size and extinction risk in amphibians, finding a negative association contrary to patterns in other vertebrates.

Spatiophylogenetic modelling of extinction risk reveals evolutionary distinctiveness and brief flowering period as risk factors in a diverse hotspot plant genus

The paper develops a Bayesian model to predict extinction risk in Hakea species by integrating phylogenetic and spatial data, identifying evolutionary distinctiveness and short flowering periods as key risk factors.

Tracking niche change through time: simultaneous inference of ecological niche evolution and estimation of contemporary niches

This paper introduces NEMo, a method that simultaneously infers ecological niche evolution and estimates contemporary niches by modeling adaptation, speciation, and dispersal on phylogenies.

Larger legume plants host a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria

The paper investigates how host tree size influences rhizobial diversity in legume plants across a climate gradient, finding that larger trees host more diverse nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity

The paper analyzes global language diversity to determine the ecological factors driving variation, finding climate has a stronger effect than landscape features.