David Cantrill
Research interests
The history of Antarctic vegetation and, in particular, the role that Antarctica has played in developing present day patterns of plant distribution in the Southern Hemisphere is a major focus of my research. I have worked extensively in the Antarctic and more recently in South Africa and New Zealand concentrating on fossil floras from the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic. I also have interests in a number of extant groups including Proteaceae and Rutaceae and in integrating the results of molecular and morphological studies with information from the geological record.
Projects
- Persoonia and the origin of the Australian flora
- Rutaceae and Australia–New Caledonia biogeography
- History of Antarctic vegetation
- Molecular identification of stipoid grasses
Publications
Byrne, M., Steane, D., Joseph, L., Yeates, D., Jordan, G., Crayn, D., Sniderman, J.M.K., Alpin, K., Cantrill, D.J., Cook, L., Crisp, M.D., Keogh, J.S., Melville, J., Moritz, C., Proch, N., Sunnucks P. and Weston, P. (2011). Decline of a biome: contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography 38. doi:
Cantrill, D.J., Tosolini, A.-M.P. and Francis, J.E. (2011). Paleocene flora from Seymour Island, Antarctica: revision of Dusén’s (1908) pteridophyte and conifer taxa. Alcheringa 35, 309–328.
Cantrill, D.J., Wanntorp, L. and Drinnan, A.N. (2011). Mesofossil flora from the Late Cretaceous of New Zealand. Cretaceous Research 32, 164–173.
Sauquet, H., Weston, P.H., Anderson, C.L., Barker, N.P., Cantrill, D.J., Mast, A.R. and Savolainen, V. (2009). Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 221–225.
Sauquet, H., Weston, P.H., Barker, N.P., Anderson, C.L., Cantrill, D.J. and Savolainen, V. (2009). Using fossils and molecular data to reveal the origins of the Cape proteas (subfamily Proteoideae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51, 31–43.
Last updated 11 Jul 2011