Project Grant 2029102

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 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 three-year, $643,366 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences will support research into understanding the spatial and temporal variation in community assembly processes through leveraging ecological modeling, functional ecology, and the fossil record of small mammals over the late Quaternary period (past 21,000 years). Specifically, the University of California, Merced will conduct a comprehensive re-assessment of existing small mammal fossil records,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $192,386 Project Grant through its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Arizona for a 3-year collaborative research project to reconstruct tropical rainfall patterns over the last 200 years. The project aims to use stable oxygen isotopes measured in tree ring cellulose from sites across Central and South America to study variations in the position and width of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and understand how these changes...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is funding a collaborative research project to investigate the relationship between surface productivity and ecological structure in marine benthic communities. The $360,460 award to the University of California, Berkeley will leverage the Panama Paleontology Project's extensive modern and fossil mollusk collections to (1) evaluate how productivity affects the energetics and trophic structure of...

This $129,702 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research between the University of Miami and its sub-awardee to test for the acclimation of individual tropical rainforest trees to over four decades of climate change through a longitudinal study. The research aims to improve understanding of how Amazonian tree species have responded or not responded to climate change and the consequences for species performance and...

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 $860,741 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MRA: PANAM PEAT: UNDERSTANDING WATER AND CARBON CYCLING ACROSS THE PAN-AMERICAN TROPICAL PEATLAND BIOME" at Arizona State University. The overarching goal is to gain new insights into tropical peatland environments and better constrain regional and global carbon budgets. Key deliverables...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project to understand tropical rainfall patterns in northern South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. The $349,971 award to Brown University will fund measurements of chemical signals in a sediment core to reconstruct past rainfall, which will provide insights into the hydrological cycle during times of sustained global warmth similar to projected...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $432,829 to The Ohio State University will support collaborative research to understand the relationship between surface productivity and ecological structure in marine benthic communities. The project aims to: (1) evaluate how productivity affects the energetic and trophic structure of marine benthic communities on both sides of the modern Isthmus of Panama, (2) use this knowledge to evaluate the...