C. Brauer

Natural hybridisation reduces vulnerability to climate change

The paper shows hybrid populations of rainbowfish are less vulnerable to climate change than pure endemics due to adaptive introgression.

Environmental selection, rather than neutral processes, best explain patterns of diversity in a tropical rainforest fish

The paper investigates factors driving biodiversity in a tropical rainforest fish, finding environmental selection, not neutral processes, explains genetic and morphological variation.

Variation in intraspecific demography drives localised concordance but species-wide discordance in responses to Plio-Pleistocene climatic change

The paper examines how demographic history and genetic variation influence concordant and discordant responses to climate change in two freshwater fish species.

Recent and rapid anthropogenic habitat fragmentation increases extinction risk for freshwater biodiversity

The paper shows recent habitat fragmentation has increased extinction risk for freshwater fish by analyzing genetic data and simulating population isolation effects.

The roles of aridification and sea level changes in the diversification and persistence of freshwater fish lineages

This study examines how aridification and sea level changes influenced the diversification and persistence of freshwater fish lineages in Australia using genetic and biogeographic analyses.

Adaptation of plasticity to predicted climates in Australian rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia) across climatically defined bioregions

This study examines how phenotypic plasticity in Australian rainbowfishes varies across ecotypes and thermal conditions, finding that subtropical ecotypes show the greatest adaptive resilience to warming.