Bradley Cardinale

6/6 When the dataset you are using to assess diversity change does not consider the dominant driver of diversity loss, and relies on studies where biodiversity can only go up (e.g., recovery, succession), then it not representative of how humans are altering biodiverity on Earth.

5/6 BioTime does not account for the single largest contributor to biodiversity decline -- habitat loss. Not one study in that dataset shows how 43% of Earth's land surface that used to be forested, but has been converted to agriculture, has influenced biodiversity.

1/6 A. Gonzalez tries to clarify stance on use of time-series data (e.g. BioTIME) to draw conclusions about biodiversity loss. When asked if it was a 'surprise' time-series found equal numbers of +/- diversity trends, Andy overly complicates issue ... insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

2/6 No, it's not a surprise there were many examples of + trends. We've known this since Sax's pubs. There are, in fact, many locations on Earth where invasions have outpaced extinctions. And no one ever expected all locations on Earth to be in diversity decline.

More biodiversity loss denialism (sigh). Cherry picking and misrepresentation of data and are being used intentionally to sow doubt about biodiversity loss in the same way the Heartland Institute trys to sows doubt about climate change. This is bad science.

Invasive species have cost the world more than €612 billion over the last 50 years, with 🥕agriculture 🌳forestry 🐟fisheries being the most affected sectors. Better biosecurity policies are key to limiting such losses. More in this @SfEP study 👉 europa.eu/!3RmMVH #IAS

Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security buff.ly/p2T6bqv

Good study on biodiversity change quantifying local diversity loss and lack of biotic homogenization. I wonder how the #BioTIME group will respond ... probably just ignore this and publish another paper using their deeply flawed time-series. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Young faculty who are mobile, and the best graduate students and postdocs are currently thinking about leaving the U.S. to start their careers elsewhere. We're going to experience a 'brain-drain', which will impact America's ability to remain a leader in anything.

Our new article in The Conversation highlights Nature's Role in National Security theconversation.com/ecological-dis…

11/ Democracy isn’t self-sustaining. It requires us to choose it — again and again. Not with platitudes. But with vigilance, accountability, and courage. We still have time. But not forever.

@IFAD @UNBiodiversity Silly

Agriculture has the potential to protect biodiversity, but right now it's a leading driver of its decline. To nourish the planet and achieve #ZeroHunger, this must change. Agrobiodiversity is the key to getting there 🌱 🥭🙌

I am increasingly convinced we have a reproducibility crisis in Ecology because of the abuse of statistics and its explanatory power, particularly of complex models and analysis that many researchers do not fully understand. This paper should be an alarm call.

One of my PhD students just shared this with me after I edited a draft of his first chapter 😆

Hot off the press! 🌟 Dr. Bradley Cardinale, professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, has released the 2nd edition of his widely acclaimed textbook Conservation Biology with Oxford University Press. ow.ly/SQ9E50UO7Hn

Does anyone review for Frontiers Media? They were once on Beall's list of predatory journals, but there has since been defense of their journals. Even so, it's a for-profit publication factory with 100s of journals & 1000s of papers. What is the quality of peer-review?