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39348
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1272
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467

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Bradley J. Cardinale is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant emphasis on ecology and related subfields. Cardinale's work spans topics such as plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, conservation and biodiversity, land use and ecosystem services, fish ecology, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity, and economic and environmental valuation.

Among Cardinale's recent publications are the following papers:

  • Human pressure drives biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Scaling up biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships across space and over time, 2020, Ecology
  • Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition, 2021, Science Advances
  • An empiricist's guide to modern coexistence theory for competitive communities, 2020, Oikos

Cardinale has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Feng-Hsun Chang
  • Luz Boyero
  • Naiara López-Rojo
  • Javier Pérez
  • Mark O. Gessner

Their work commonly appears in venues such as Ecology, Global Change Biology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Communications, and Science Advances.

Cardinale's contributions to the field have been recognized with fellowships from key scientific organizations. These include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013 and a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017. Earlier in their career, they were awarded the Hellman Fellowship in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

    David U. Hooper;E. Carol Adair;E. Carol Adair;Bradley J. Cardinale;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes

  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Diane S. Srivastava;J. Emmett Duffy;Justin P. Wright

  • Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Justin P. Wright;Marc W. Cadotte;Ian T. Carroll

  • Stability and Aggregation of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Natural Aqueous Matrices

    Arturo A Keller;Hongtao Wang;Dongxu Zhou;Hunter S Lenihan

  • The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Kristin L. Matulich;David U. Hooper;Jarrett E. Byrnes

  • The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity

    J. Emmett Duffy;Bradley J. Cardinale;Peter B. McIntyre

  • Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Margaret A. Palmer;Scott L. Collins

  • Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos

    Martin Solan;Bradley J. Cardinale;Amy L. Downing;Katharina A. M. Engelhardt

  • Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

    Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Lars Gamfeldt;Forest Isbell;Jonathan S. Lefcheck

  • Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

    Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Forest Isbell;Lars Gamfeldt

  • Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

    Bradley J. Cardinale

  • Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

    Marc W. Cadotte;Bradley J. Cardinale;Todd H. Oakley

  • Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

    J. Emmett Duffy;Casey M. Godwin;Bradley J. Cardinale

  • Biodiversity and biocontrol: emergent impacts of a multi-enemy assemblage on pest suppression and crop yield in an agroecosystem

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Chad T. Harvey;Kevin Gross;Anthony R. Ives

  • A synthesis of subdisciplines: predator–prey interactions, and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Anthony R. Ives;Bradley J. Cardinale;Bradley J. Cardinale;William E. Snyder

  • The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems

    Alan P. Covich;Melanie C. Austen;Felix Bärlocher;Eric Chauvet

  • Biodiversity conservation in agriculture requires a multi-scale approach

    David J. Gonthier;Katherine K. Ennis;Serge Farinas;Hsun Yi Hsieh

  • Species richness and the temporal stability of biomass production: A new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments

    Kevin Gross;Bradley J. Cardinale;Jeremy W. Fox;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Linking species diversity to the functioning of ecosystems: on the importance of environmental context

    Brad J. Cardinale;Karen Nelson;Margaret A. Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
Phillip E. Savage
Phillip E. Savage Pennsylvania State University
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Todd H. Oakley
Todd H. Oakley University of California, Santa Barbara
Diane S. Srivastava
Diane S. Srivastava University of British Columbia
David U. Hooper
David U. Hooper Western Washington University
Kevin Gross
Kevin Gross North Carolina State University
Anthony R. Ives
Anthony R. Ives University of Wisconsin–Madison
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota

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