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Andrew Thornhill

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-5725

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20082025

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Biographical Details

Dr Andrew Thornhill is one of the botanical lecturers at UNE as well as responsible for the running of the UNE N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium. Andrew was first attracted to botany through collecting carnivorous plants which led to a Masters project at Monash University studying pitcher plants. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University working on the plant family Myrtaceae and continued his research through postdoctoral research on plant evolution with an emphasis on Australian plants (eucalypts and Acacia) and large phylogenetic studies across a broad botanical and geographical range. Andrew has worked in various herbaria over his career including the Australian National Herbarium at CSIRO in Canberra, the Australian Tropical Herbarium at James Cook University in Cairns, the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley, and the State Herbarium of South Australia in Adelaide.

Andrew has worked on developing spatial phylogenetics – a "big data" field that combines large-scale molecular phylogenetics, geospatial information obtained from collection data, and randomisation tests to identify unique areas of diversity and endemism to enable evolutionary, ecological, and biogeographic interpretations of these patterns.

Andrew has published on a wide range of botanical subjects including palynology, phylogenetics, systematics, the biogeography of Myrtaceae. He has published large species level phylogenies of eucalypts and Australian Acacia, and made phylogenetic analyses of the flora of California and Chile. He has utilised plant fossils as calibrations in molecular dating analyses as well as studied bryophyte (moss, liverwort, and hornwort) phylogenetics.

Teaching

BOTY203 – Plant Diversity (Coordinator)

BOTY390 – Field Botany (Coordinator)

BOTY370 – Mushrooms and Mosses – The Cryptogams (Coordinator)

EVOL211 - Evolution and Biogeography (Teaching)

EVOL301 – Biological Systematics (Teaching)

Education/Academic qualification

Doctorate, Extant and fossil Myrtaceae pollen morphology and their significance to systematics, phylogenetics, evolution, and biogeography of the family, Australian National University

Award Date: 8 Dec 2011

Masters, The development of digestive glands and enzymes of three genera of carnivorous pitcher plants: Sarracenia, Darlingtonia and Nepenthes AH Thornhill, Monash University

Award Date: 22 Apr 2004

Research Interests

  • Botany
  • Systematics
  • Phylogenetics
  • Australian Plants
  • Evolution
  • Palynology
  • Spatial phylogenetics
  • Taxonomy
  • Bryophytes
  • Herbarium curation
  • Eucalypts
  • Myrtaceae

Approved to Supervise

  • Approved PhD/HDR supervisor

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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  • Eucalyptus was not the problem: A response to “The genus problem – Eucalyptus as a model system for minimising taxonomic disruption” by Nicolle & al

    Cook, L. G., Crisp, M. D., Albrecht, D. E., Andrew, R. L., Bayly, M. J., Bean, A. R., Biffin, E., Brown, G. K., Bruhl, J. J., Cantrill, D. J., Conran, J. G., Crayn, D. M., Cuff, N., Jobson, P. C., Ladiges, P. Y., McLay, T. G. B., Murphy, D. J., Nge, F. J., Rutherford, S. & Telford, I. R. H. & 5 others, Thiele, K. R., Udovicic, F., Waycott, M., Wilson, P. G. & Thornhill, A. H., 30 Jun 2025, In: Taxon. 74, 3, p. 507-514

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • Perianth evolution and implications for generic delimitation in the eucalypts (Myrtaceae), including the description of the new genus, Blakella

    Crisp, M. D., Minh, B. Q., Choi, B., Edwards, R. D., Hereward, J., Kulheim, C., Lin, Y. P., Meusemann, K., Thornhill, A. H., Toon, A. & Cook, L. G., 30 Sept 2024, In: Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 62, 5, p. 942-962

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    17 Citations (Scopus)

  • Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms

    Zuntini, A. R., Carruthers, T., Maurin, O., Bailey, P. C., Leempoel, K., Brewer, G. E., Epitawalage, N., Françoso, E., Gallego-Paramo, B., McGinnie, C., Negrão, R., Roy, S. R., Simpson, L., Toledo Romero, E., Barber, V. M. A., Botigué, L., Clarkson, J. J., Cowan, R. S., Dodsworth, S. & Johnson, M. G. & 259 others, Kim, J. T., Pokorny, L., Wickett, N. J., Antar, G. M., DeBolt, L., Gutierrez, K., Hendriks, K. P., Hoewener, A., Hu, A.-Q., Joyce, E. M., Kikuchi, I. A. B. S., Larridon, I., Larson, D. A., Liu, J.-X., Malakasi, P., Przelomska, N. A. S., Shah, T., Viruel, J., Allnutt, T. R., Ameka, G. K., Andrew, R. L., Andrew, R., Arista, M., Ariza, M. J., Arroyo, J., Arthan, W., Bachelier, J. B., Donovan Bailey, C., Barnes, H. F., Barrett, M. D., Barrett, R. L., Bayer, R. J., Bayly, M. J., Biffin, E., Biggs, N., Birch, J. L., Bogarín, D., Borosova, R., Bowles, A. M. C., Boyce, P. C., Bramley, G. L. C., Briggs, M., Broadhurst, L., Brown, G. K., Bruhl, J. J., Bruhl, J., Buerki, S., Burns, E., Byrne, M., Cable, S., Calladine, A., Callmander, M. W., Cano, Á., Cantrill, D. J., Cardinal-McTeague, W. M., Carlsen, M. M., Carruthers, A. J. A., de Castro Mateo, A. D. C. M., Chase, M. W., Chatrou, L. W., Cheek, M., Chen, S., Christenhusz, M. J. M., Christin, P.-A., Clements, M. A., Coffey, S. C., Conran, J. G., Cornejo, X., Couvreur, T. L. P., Cowie, I. D., Csiba, L., Darbyshire, I., Davidse, G., Davies, N. M. J., Davis, A. P., van Dijk, K.-J., Downie, S. R., Duretto, M. F., Duvall, M. R., Edwards, S. L., Erkens, R. H. J., Escudero, M., de la Estrella, M., Fabriani, F., Fay, M. F., Ferreira, P. D. L., Ficinski, S. Z., Fowler, R. M., Frisby, S., Fu, L., Fulcher, T., Galbany-Casals, M., Gardner, E. M., German, D. A., Giaretta, A., Gibernau, M., Gillespie, L. J., González, C. C., Goyder, D. J., Graham, S. W., Grall, A., Green, L., Gunn, B. F., Gutiérrez, D. G., Hackel, J., Haevermans, T., Haigh, A., Hall, J. C., Hall, T., Harrison, M. J., Hatt, S. A., Hidalgo, O., Hodkinson, T. R., Holmes, G. D., Hopkins, H. C. F., Jackson, C. J., James, S. A., Jobson, R. W., Kadereit, G., Kahandawala, I. M., Kainulainen, K., Kato, M., Kellogg, E. A., King, G. J., Klejevskaja, B., Klitgaard, B. B., Klopper, R. R., Knapp, S., Koch, M. A., Leebens-Mack, J. H., Lens, F., Leon, C. J., Léveillé-Bourret, É., Lewis, G. P., Li, D.-Z., Li, L., Liede-Schumann, S., Livshultz, T., Lorence, D., Lu, M., Lu-Irving, P., Luber, J., Lucas, E. J., Luján, M., Lum, M., Macfarlane, T. D., Magdalena, C., Mansano, V. F., Masters, L. E., Mayo, S. J., McColl, K., McDonnell, A. J., McDougall, A. E., McLay, T. G. B., McPherson, H., Meneses, R. I., Merckx, V. S. F. T., Michelangeli, F. A., Mitchell, J. D., Monro, A. K., Moore, M. J., Mueller, T. L., Mummenhoff, K., Munzinger, J., Muriel, P., Murphy, D. J., Nargar, K., Nauheimer, L., Nge, F. J., Nyffeler, R., Orejuela, A., Ortiz, E. M., Palazzesi, L., Peixoto, A. L., Pell, S. K., Pellicer, J., Penneys, D. S., Perez-Escobar, O. A., Persson, C., Pignal, M., Pillon, Y., Pirani, J. R., Plunkett, G. M., Powell, R. F., Prance, G. T., Puglisi, C., Qin, M., Rabeler, R. K., Rees, P. E. J., Renner, M., Roalson, E. H., Rodda, M., Rogers, Z. S., Rokni, S., Rutishauser, R., de Salas, M. F., Schaefer, H., Schley, R. J., Schmidt-Lebuhn, A., Shapcott, A., Al-Shehbaz, I., Shepherd, K. A., Simmons, M. P., Simões, A. O., Simões, A. R. G., Siros, M., Smidt, E. C., Smith, J. F., Snow, N., Soltis, D. E., Soltis, P. S., Soreng, R. J., Sothers, C. A., Starr, J. R., Stevens, P. F., Straub, S. C. K., Struwe, L., Taylor, J. M., Telford, I. R. H., Thornhill, A. H., Telford, I., Thornhill, A., Udovicic, F., Utteridge, T. M. A., Del Valle, J. C., Anthony Verboom, G., Vonow, H. P., Vorontsova, M. S., de Vos, J. M., Al-Wattar, N., Waycott, M., Welker, C. A. D., White, A. J., Wieringa, J. J., Williamson, L. T., Wilson, T. C., Wong, S. Y., Woods, L. A., Woods, R., Worboys, S., Xanthos, M., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y.-X., Zhou, M.-Y., Zmarzty, S., Zuloaga, F. O., Antonelli, A., Bellot, S., Crayn, D. M., Grace, O. M., Kersey, P. J., Leitch, I. J., Sauquet, H., Smith, S. A., Eiserhardt, W. L., Forest, F., Baker, W. J., Forest, F. & Baker, W. J., 2024, In: NATURE. 629.0, p. 843-850

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    337 Citations (Scopus)

  • Riparian areas as a conservation priority under climate change

    Zhang, X., Ci, X., Hu, J., Bai, Y., Thornhill, A. H., Conran, J. G. & Li, J., 1 Feb 2023, In: Science of The Total Environment. 858, Part 2, p. 1-11 159879.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    26 Citations (Scopus)

  • Tracing the world's timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification

    Low, M. C., Schmitz, N., Boeschoten, L. E., Cabezas, J. A., Cramm, M., Haag, V., Koch, G., Meyer-Sand, B. R. V., Paredes-Villanueva, K., Price, E., Thornhill, A. H., Van Brusselen, J., Zuidema, P. A., Deklerck, V., Dormontt, E. E., Shapcott, A. & Lowe, A. J., 28 Feb 2023, In: IAWA Journal. 44, 1, p. 63-84

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    45 Citations (Scopus)
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