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David J. Cantrill is affiliated with the Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

They have published research covering a wide range of main topics, including:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Cantrill's publication record features papers in notable venues with repeated contributions to Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Australian Systematic Botany, and Ecology and Evolution.

Recent publications include:

  • Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms, 2024, Nature
  • Phylogenomics reveals extreme gene tree discordance in a lineage of dominant trees: hybridization, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting blur deep evolutionary relationships despite clear species groupings in Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia, 2023, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Spatial, climate and ploidy factors drive genomic diversity and resilience in the widespread grass Themeda triandra, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • A Lagerstätte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems, 2022, Science Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Todd G. B. McLay, Frank Udovicic, Michael J. Bayly, Daniel J. Murphy, and Patrick S. Fahey, with the number of joint publications ranging from six to ten for these collaborators.

Best Publications

  • Are we now living in the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Alan Smith;Tiffany L. Barry

  • Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

    Hervé Sauquet;Simon Y. W. Ho;Simon Y. W. Ho;Maria A. Gandolfo;Gregory J. Jordan

  • Decline of a biome: Evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

    Margaret Byrne;Dorothy Steane;Leo Joseph;David K. Yeates

  • New constraints on atmospheric CO2 concentration for the Phanerozoic

    Peter J. Franks;Dana L. Royer;David J. Beerling;Peter K. Van de Water

  • Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots.

    Hervé Sauquet;Peter H. Weston;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Nigel P. Barker

  • New Caledonia–Australian connections: biogeographic patterns and geology

    Pauline Y. Ladiges;David Cantrill

  • The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time

    David J. Cantrill;Imogen Poole

  • Maastrichtian stratigraphy of Antarctica

    J.A. Crame;J.E. Francis;D.J. Cantrill;D. Pirrie

  • A multi-proxy approach to determine Antarctic terrestrial palaeoclimate during the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary

    Imogen Poole;Imogen Poole;David Cantrill;Torsten Utescher

  • 100 Million Years of Antarctic Climate Evolution: Evidence from Fossil Plants

    J.E. Francis;A.C. Ashworth;D.J. Cantrill;J.A. Crame

  • Valdivian ecosystems in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of Antarctica: further evidence from myrtaceous and eucryphiaceous fossil wood

    Imogen Poole;Alberta M.W. Mennega;David J. Cantrill

  • A Fossil Wood Flora from King George Island: Ecological Implications for an Antarctic Eocene Vegetation

    Imogen Poole;Richard J. Hunt;David J. Cantrill

  • Cretaceous (Late Albian) coniferales of Alexander Island, Antarctica. 1: Wood taxonomy: a quantitative approach

    H.J. Falcon-Lang;D.J. Cantrill

  • Biodiversity and terrestrial ecology of a mid-Cretaceous, high-latitude floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica

    H. J. Falcon-Lang;D. J. Cantrill;G. J. Nichols

  • Taxonomy and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous (Late Albian) angiosperm leaves from Alexander Island, Antarctica

    David J. Cantrill;G.J. Nichols

  • Fossil Woods From Williams Point Beds, Livingston Island, Antarctica: A Late Cretaceous Southern High Latitude Flora

    Imogen Poole;David Cantrill

  • What status for the Quaternary

    Philip L. Gibbard;Alan G. Smith;Jan A. Zalasiewicz;Tiffany L. Barry

  • Taxonomic turnover and abundance in Cretaceous to Tertiary wood floras of Antarctica: implications for changes in forest ecology

    David J. Cantrill;Imogen Poole;Imogen Poole

  • Cretaceous (Late Albian) coniferales of Alexander Island, Antarctica. 2. Leaves, reproductive structures and roots.

    David J. Cantrill;Howard J. Falcon-Lang

  • Neogene vegetation of the Meyer Desert Formation (Sirius Group) Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

    Allan C. Ashworth;David J. Cantrill

  • Gymnosperm woods from the Cretaceous (mid-Aptian) Cerro Negro Formation, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica: the arborescent vegetation of a volcanic arc

    H.J. Falcon-Lang;D.J. Cantrill

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane E. Francis
Jane E. Francis Charles Darwin University
Tiffany L. Barry
Tiffany L. Barry University of Leicester
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Peter F. Rawson
Peter F. Rawson University College London
Angela L. Coe
Angela L. Coe The Open University
Andrew S. Gale
Andrew S. Gale University of Portsmouth
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Pauline Y. Ladiges
Pauline Y. Ladiges University of Melbourne

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