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Overview

Marcel Cardillo is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology.

Their work focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution

Marcel Cardillo has published research in a number of frequent venues, among which are:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Cambridge Prisms Extinction
  • Conservation Biology

The scientist has contributed to several papers, including:

  • "Priorities for conserving the world's terrestrial mammals based on over-the-horizon extinction risk" (2023, Current Biology)
  • "ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography" (2021, Ecography)
  • "Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation" (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • "Spatiophylogenetic modelling of extinction risk reveals evolutionary distinctiveness and brief flowering period as threats in a hotspot plant genus" (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in Marcel Cardillo's research include:

  • Russell Dinnage
  • Lindell Bromham
  • Xia Hua
  • Alexander Skeels
  • Andrew M. Ritchie

In addition to journal papers, Marcel Cardillo has a forthcoming book publication from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled Grandi Transizioni, Vulnerabilità e Ruelo del DirittoLes grandes transitions, vulnérabilités et rôle du droit, expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The delayed rise of present-day mammals

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Marcel Cardillo;Kate E. Jones;Ross D. E. MacPhee

  • PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

    Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby;Marcel Cardillo;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species

    Marcel Cardillo;Georgina M. Mace;Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby

  • Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores

    Marcel Cardillo;Andy Purvis;Wes Sechrest;John L Gittleman

  • The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals.

    Marcel Cardillo;Georgina M Mace;John L Gittleman;Kate E Jones

  • The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: An empirical reevaluation

    J. Bielby;G. M. Mace;O. R. P. Bininda‐Emonds;M. Cardillo

  • ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography

    Dan L. Warren;Nicholas J. Matzke;Marcel Cardillo;John B. Baumgartner;John B. Baumgartner

  • Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation

    Marcel Cardillo;Georgina M. Mace;John L. Gittleman;Andy Purvis

  • Mistaking geography for biology: Inferring processes from species distributions

    Dan. L. Warren;Marcel Cardillo;Dan F. Rosauer;Daniel I. Bolnick

  • Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable?

    Marcel Cardillo

  • Body Size and Risk of Extinction in Australian Mammals

    Marcel Cardillo;Lindell Bromham

  • TESTING FOR LATITUDINAL BIAS IN DIVERSIFICATION RATES: AN EXAMPLE USING NEW WORLD BIRDS

    Marcel Cardillo;Marcel Cardillo;C. David L. Orme;Ian P. F. Owens

  • Latitude and rates of diversification in birds and butterflies

    Marcel Cardillo

  • Effects of stock grazing on the ground invertebrate fauna of woodland remnants

    Lindell Bromham;Marcel Cardillo;Andrew F. Bennett;Mark A. Elgar

  • The life‐history basis of latitudinal diversity gradients: how do species traits vary from the poles to the equator?

    Marcel Cardillo

  • A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials

    Marcel Cardillo;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Elizabeth Boakes;Andy Purvis

  • Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

    T. Jonathan Davies;Susanne A. Fritz;Richard Grenyer;C. David L. Orme

  • Garbage in, Garbage out

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Kate E. Jones;Samantha A. Price;Marcel Cardillo

  • Are comparative studies of extinction risk useful for conservation

    Marcel Cardillo;Erik Meijaard

  • Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology

    Marcel Cardillo

  • Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

    T. Jonathan Davies;Susanne A. Fritz;Richard Grenyer;C. David

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Lindell Bromham
Lindell Bromham Australian National University
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
Kate E. Jones
Kate E. Jones University College London
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Jon Bielby
Jon Bielby Liverpool John Moores University
Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Erik Meijaard
Erik Meijaard University of Queensland
C. David L. Orme
C. David L. Orme Imperial College London

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