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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $209,582 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support collaborative research titled "DISTRIBUTIONS OF MACROFUNGI: QUANTIFYING ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE DRIVERS OF FUNGAL REPRODUCTION." The three-year award period runs from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The grant supports research under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program,...
This $223,991 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research examining seed-fungal interactions and their influence on tropical tree recruitment. Over a four-year period ending in February 2027, the University of Arizona will investigate how seed chemistry, environmental conditions, and genetic factors determine outcomes of seed-fungal relationships in tropical forests. Researchers will use metabolomics and assays to study seed...
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 Oregon was awarded a $636,463 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on quantifying the ecosystem and climate drivers that influence the reproduction of macrofungi. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal of increasing scientific knowledge of major issues, this research will provide insights...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to study how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi impacts pollination and plant fitness in anthropogenically disturbed environments. The grant, provided under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research from August 2021 to July 2023 exploring how the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi is impacted by human disturbances and influences plant reproduction. The Biological Sciences program aims to...
This $788,505 National Science Foundation Project Grant will support research into seed-fungal interactions and their influence on tropical tree recruitment. The grant was awarded to the University of South Florida on March 1, 2023 for a four-year period ending February 28, 2027. The grant will fund collaborative research between the University of South Florida, University of Illinois, Utah State University, and University of Arizona to better understand how seed chemistry influences...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Buried Solution for Agricultural Resilience: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. This award falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems confronting the...
Arizona State University was awarded a $1,112,373 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2025. The award is being used to study the Role of Non-Phototrophs in the Growth and Fitness of Biological Soil Crust under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing knowledge and...
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 research how ecosystem and climate factors influence the reproduction of macrofungi. The NSF Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the nation's biological research capacity. This award supports that goal by furthering scientific understanding of important issues facing the environment and climate change through the lens of macrofungal reproduction drivers.