Brad Cardinale
Department Head, Ecosystem Science and Management
-
121 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA - bjc6025@psu.edu
Huck Graduate Students
Huck Affiliations
Links
Most Recent Publications
Great Lakes shoreline restoration: A summary of 21 projects funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
Kia Billings, Bradley Cardinale, 2025, Ecological Restoration
Conservation Biology
Bradley Cardinale, James Murdock, 2025, on p. 672
The perceived ecological and human well-being benefits of ecosystem restoration
Matthew Jurjonas, Christopher A. May, Bradley Cardinale, Stephanie Kyriakakis, Douglas R. Pearsall, Patrick J. Doran, 2024, People and Nature on p. 4-19
Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales
Matthew G.E. Mitchell, Jiangxiao Qiu, Bradley J. Cardinale, Kai M.A. Chan, Felix Eigenbrod, María R. Felipe-Lucia, Aerin L. Jacob, Matthew S. Jones, Laura J. Sonter, 2024, Landscape Ecology
Long-term changes in multi-trophic diversity alter the functioning of river food webs
Dieison A. Moi, Alejandro D'Anatro, Ivan González-Bergonzoni, Nicolás Vidal, Ivana Silva, Benoit Gauzens, Gustavo Q. Romero, Bradley J. Cardinale, Claudia C. Bonecker, Vítor Carvalho-Rocha, Franco Teixeira de Mello, 2024, Functional Ecology
Impacts of Fungal Disease on Algal Biofuel Systems: Using Life Cycle Assessment to Compare Control Strategies
Elena M. Miyasato, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology on p. 2602-2610
Tolerance to allelopathic inhibition by free fatty acids in five biofuel candidate microalgae strains
Patrick K. Thomas, David C. Hietala, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2023, Bioresource Technology Reports
A synthesis of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative according to the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation
Matthew Jurjonas, Christopher A. May, Bradley J. Cardinale, Stephanie Kyriakakis, Douglas R. Pearsall, Patrick J. Doran, 2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research on p. 1417-1431
Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands
Dieison A. Moi, Fernando M. Lansac-Tôha, Gustavo Q. Romero, Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Bradley J. Cardinale, Pavel Kratina, Daniel M. Perkins, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Erik Jeppesen, Jani Heino, Fábio A. Lansac-Tôha, Luiz F.M. Velho, Roger P. Mormul, 2022, Nature Ecology and Evolution on p. 1279-1289
Effects of consumer diversity on prey consumption are not influenced by omnivory
Feng Hsun Chang, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2022, Elementa
Most-Cited Papers
Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats
Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Forest Isbell, Lars Gamfeldt, John N. Griffin, Nico Eisenhauer, Marc J.S. Hensel, Andy Hector, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, 2015, Nature Communications
Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity
J. Emmett Duffy, Casey M. Godwin, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2017, Nature on p. 261-264
Estimating local biodiversity change: A critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity
Andrew Gonzalez, Bradley J. Cardinale, Ginger R.H. Allington, Jarrett Byrnes, K. Arthur Endsley, Daniel G. Brown, David U. Hooper, Forest Isbell, Mary I. O'Connor, Michel Loreau, 2016, Ecology on p. 1949-1960
Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: What's known and what's next?
Lars Gamfeldt, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, John N. Griffin, 2015, Oikos on p. 252-265
Is local biodiversity declining or not? A summary of the debate over analysis of species richness time trends
Bradley J. Cardinale, Andrew Gonzalez, Ginger R.H. Allington, Michel Loreau, 2018, Biological Conservation on p. 175-183
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies
Patrick Venail, Kevin Gross, Todd H. Oakley, Anita Narwani, Eric Allan, Pedro Flombaum, Forest Isbell, Jasmin Joshi, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Jasper van Ruijven, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2015, Functional Ecology on p. 615-626
A general biodiversity–function relationship is mediated by trophic level
Mary I. O'Connor, Andrew Gonzalez, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Lars Gamfeldt, John N. Griffin, David Hooper, Bruce A. Hungate, Alain Paquette, Patrick L. Thompson, Laura E. Dee, Kristin L. Dolan, 2017, Oikos on p. 18-31
Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: A global study
Luz Boyero, Richard G. Pearson, Cang Hui, Mark O. Gessner, Javier Pérez, Markos A. Alexandrou, Manuel A.S. Graça, Bradley J. Cardinale, Ricardo J. Albariño, Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam, Leon A. Barmuta, Andrew J. Boulton, Andreas Bruder, Marcos Callisto, Eric Chauvet, Russell G. Death, David Dudgeon, Andrea C. Encalada, Verónica Ferreira, Ricardo Figueroa, Alexander S. Flecker, José F. Gonçalves, Julie Helson, Tomoya Iwata, Tajang Jinggut, Jude Mathooko, Catherine Mathuriau, Charles M’Erimba, Marcelo S. Moretti, Catherine M. Pringle, Alonso Ramírez, Lavenia Ratnarajah, José Rincon, Catherine M. Yule, 2016, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage
Bruce A. Hungate, Edward B. Barbier, Amy W. Ando, Samuel P. Marks, Peter B. Reich, Natasja van Gestel, David Tilman, Johannes M.H. Knops, David U. Hooper, Bradley J. Butterfield, Bradley J. Cardinale, 2017, Science advances
Ecosystem services in the Great Lakes
Alan D. Steinman, Bradley J. Cardinale, Wayne R. Munns, Mary E. Ogdahl, J. David Allan, Ted Angadi, Sarah Bartlett, Kate Brauman, Muruleedhara Byappanahalli, Matt Doss, Diane Dupont, Annie Johns, Donna Kashian, Frank Lupi, Peter McIntyre, Todd Miller, Michael Moore, Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, Rajendra Poudel, James Price, Bill Provencher, Anne Rea, Jennifer Read, Steven Renzetti, Brent Sohngen, Erika Washburn, 2017, Journal of Great Lakes Research on p. 161-168
News Articles Featuring Brad Cardinale
Mar 29, 2025
Zootonic diseases to wildlife trade: Here’s how ecological disruptions threaten national security
Overfishing, public health crises, and environmental crime such as illegal poaching of wildlife and forest products can impact social and political stability around the world and here in the U.S.
Full Article
Mar 27, 2025
Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security
When the natural environment is stretched beyond its ability to meet basic human needs for food, clean air, drinkable water and shelter, it is not just a humanitarian concern for the world community. Research shows that these crises are a matter of national security for the U.S. and other countries.
Full Article
Jan 31, 2023
Eissenstat retires from College of Ag Sciences after three decades at Penn State
David Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology, retired recently after a distinguished 28-year career on the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences faculty, including a two-year stint as interim head of the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management.
Full Article
Jun 02, 2022
Should we protect nature for its own sake? For its economic value? Because it makes us happy? Yes
As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history.
Full Article