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Marcel Cardillo is a Professor at the Australian National University, focusing on macroevolution, macroecology, biogeography, and conservation biology. His research primarily addresses big-picture questions regarding biodiversity and theoretical issues related to species evolution in the tropics. He explores why certain areas, such as southwest Australia, become biodiversity hotspots and investigates how lineages evolve in new environments. Cardillo is particularly concerned with contemporary conservation issues, such as predicting species declines in regions severely affected by global environmental change. He employs large datasets and computational tools to analyze geographic and phylogenetic data, aiming to develop creative and elegant methods to tackle complex questions in biodiversity. He welcomes new students and postdocs interested in joining his lab, which is part of the broader Macroevolution & Macroecology group. His commitment to research is further emphasized by his supervision of research students and collaboration with various scholars in the field.
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