Project Grant 1555793

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 four-year, $799,960 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will assess the effects of human activity on the composition of tropical forests. The Florida Institute of Technology will examine how human impacts such as planting, cutting, burning of plants have potentially shaped rainforest ecosystems over extended periods. Alternative hypotheses around more recent intensive...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $231,060 over 5 years to Lewis & Clark College to research the long-term dynamics of tropical forest regeneration across sites in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, and Panama. The project aims to understand how variations in environmental conditions and climate patterns, including seasonality and multi-year cycles, impact the timing and success of plant...

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, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BOCP-IMPLEMENTATION: INTEGRATING TRAITS, PHYLOGENIES AND DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA TO FORECAST RISKS AND RESILIENCE OF NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS", was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The award of $265,453 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, will fund a collaborative research effort...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant, awarded to the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus, provides $150,000.00 over five years from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028. The project conducts collaborative research to understand how the timing and success of reproduction in tropical plants varies due to within-year seasonality, multi-year climate cycles, and the effects of climate change. The research takes place at three tropical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $268,066 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support collaborative research on tropical plant-pollinator interactions. The project will engage 15 U.S. students, particularly from underrepresented groups, in an 8-week international research program in Colombia to investigate the impacts of climate and landscape changes on plant-pollinator relationships....

The California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation has received a three-year $338,358 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to document an indigenous language as it relates to local plant life. The project will produce comprehensive documentation of plant names, descriptions, traditional and modern uses in areas like cooking, construction and medicine. A field guide and documentary will be created for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $448,516 to the Missouri Botanical Garden to conduct collaborative international research in Colombia on the role of floral scents in attracting and maintaining insect pollinators, and how this influences patterns of tropical plant diversification. Over the 3-year award period from November 2025 to October 2028, the project will provide cohorts of 6 U.S....

This $1,207,852 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program will fund a 5-year collaborative research project focused on understanding how landscape structure influences tropical forest regeneration in Madagascar. The project aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of landscape properties like habitat amount, fragmentation, and matrix quality on seed dispersal and post-dispersal seedling recruitment in regenerating tropical forests. The...