Cooperative Agreement L24AC00629

This $463,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will examine the origin and genetics of four rare plant species in the California Floristic Province. The project, led by Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation (also known as HSU Foundation), aims to test the phylogenetic and genetic predictions of the "budding speciation" process, which is hypothesized to be a primary driver of rare plant diversity in the...

This $988,130 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program focuses on advancing understanding of the evolutionary history and ecological adaptations of the Montiaceae plant family. Led by researchers at Yale University, the project will construct a comprehensive phylogeny (evolutionary tree) for the Montiaceae, which contains ~250 species of annual and perennial herbs found across diverse environments like deserts, mountains, and Mediterranean regions....

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) provides $143,280.00 to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) to conduct research and conservation efforts for the recovery of the Butte County meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp. californica). The award will fund pollination studies, including pollinator observations, and test the management technique of...

This $468,143 National Science Foundation project grant supports a collaborative research effort to build a robust phylogenetic framework of the hyper-diverse flowering plant subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae). Led by The Research Foundation for The State University of New York, the three-year award beginning June 1, 2022 will utilize next-generation DNA sequencing approaches involving targeted enrichment, transcriptomics, and broad taxonomic sampling. The research team will circumscribe major...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $210,322 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to conduct collaborative research on how local adaptation and climatic extremes will shape continental-scale changes in the distribution and abundance of two common tundra plant species under climate change. The award will fund long-term monitoring of wild populations of Silene acaulis...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $2,999,552 to the University of Nevada, Reno to quantify the phytochemical landscape of indigenous communities through knowledge integration, interaction diversity genomics, and network dynamics from 2022-2026. Key products include the development of an accessible website compiling edited video interviews with Kichwa and Waorani elders on plant-animal networks and interspecies...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $487,639 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct long-term monitoring and research on plant community dynamics in the Colorado alpine biome. The project aims to assemble a unique long-term dataset on population and community changes in response to rapid environmental changes, such as climate change, to advance ecological theory and forecasting. Key activities...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $442,709 Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) Project Grant to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to support research on the Burke's goldfields (Lasthenia burkei) and Contra Costa goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens) plant species. The 3-year project, which began on February 1, 2024, aims to: (1) evaluate seed production, quality, viability, and dormancy rates; (2) assess seed...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) received a $217,536 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program. The grant will support CDFW's efforts to evaluate the effects of the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire and fire suppression activities on the recovery of two endangered plant species native to the Santa Cruz Mountains: Santa Cruz cypress...

This three-year, $393,461 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research effort to build a robust phylogenetic framework of the hyper-diverse flowering plant subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae). The awardee, Missouri Western State University, will utilize next-generation sequencing approaches including targeted enrichment, transcriptomics, and broad taxonomic sampling to circumscribe major clades within Lamioideae and...