Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: The evolution and future of a paradigm

Bradley Cardinale, Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

Thursday, November 10, 2011
10:30 AM, Lake Superior Hall
4840 South State Road

Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719

Dr. Bradley J. Cardinale is an Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2002, and then completed a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His work combines mathematical theory, novel experiments, and meta-analyses of existing data to develop predictive models of extinction risk, and to forecast how loss of genes, species, and entire communities can alter ecological processes that are required to sustain higher life.  To date, Dr. Cardinale has published 59 peer-reviewed papers, including five papers in Nature, one in Science, three in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and 16 in Ecology or Ecology Letters.  He has won several research awards, including the Hynes Award for the most influential paper by a young scientist in aquatic ecology from the North American Benthological Society and, most recently, the Harold J. Plous Award – the highest honor given to junior faculty at the University of Santa Barbara for excellence in research.  He serves on the editorial board of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, and is an elected member of the Freshwater Biodiversity Committee of DIVERSITAS – An International Program of Biodiversity Science.