The University of Florida was awarded a $231,660 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MRA: DISTRIBUTIONS OF MACROFUNGI: QUANTIFYING ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE DRIVERS OF FUNGAL REPRODUCTION." The research will be performed from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA #47.074). The goal of this program is to promote progress in the biological...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $150,235 to the University of New Hampshire from January 2022 through December 2025. The grant supports research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MRA: DISTRIBUTIONS OF MACROFUNGI: QUANTIFYING ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE DRIVERS OF FUNGAL REPRODUCTION" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to increase scientific understanding of major problems in...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $380,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MRA: DISTRIBUTIONS OF MACROFUNGI: QUANTIFYING ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE DRIVERS OF FUNGAL REPRODUCTION." The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 with a completion date of December 31, 2025 under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The University of Arizona will use the funding to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $826,475 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support collaborative research titled "Microbial Necromass Decomposition: Moving from Predictions to Principles" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,586 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to conduct research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of mutualisms for species range expansion from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. This award supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $183,600 Project Grant to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to study how climate change affects soil fungi. The 3-year grant, which runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, supports research to develop a trait-based framework for understanding and predicting fungal community responses to global change drivers. The project has three main objectives: 1) create a trait-based framework using advanced...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $193,119 will fund research to advance understanding of soil fungal biodiversity patterns across North America. Leveraging two extensive DNA sequencing datasets from the National Ecological Observatory Network and Dimensions of Biodiversity Project on North American Soil Fungi, the University of Michigan team will apply novel modeling techniques to identify key environmental variables influencing fungal community composition and geographic...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $283,627 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the University of Minnesota Duluth, to support research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The award will fund research from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027 to develop and test an integrated framework for understanding how global changes are influencing plant traits in ways that...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $138,000 to fund research titled "How Spatial and Temporal Variation in Environment and Soil Fungal Diversity Shapes Plant Phenotypes." The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $207,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Functional Biogeography of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: Elucidating Cross-Scale Mechanisms that Inform Global Models" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA #47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and...