Northern Arizona University will receive $632,366 over four years from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems to conduct research modeling organismal responses to changing ecological regimes via investigation of stress, growth and reproduction in the longest-lived mammal. This Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major...
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...
This Project Grant award of $116,555.00 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a research project at the University of Arizona to investigate biological invasions across spatial scales. The project aims to compile an open-access database of species invasion data from the National Ecological Observatory Network and analyze it using advanced statistical methods. The goal is to better understand the relative roles of propagule pressure, abiotic...
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...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $630,909 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year grant will fund research examining how dietary fiber can improve small intestinal nutrient sensing mechanisms and gut-brain signaling pathways that regulate food intake and metabolic homeostasis. Specifically, the university will analyze the...
This $2.19 million National Science Foundation project grant supports research into integrative wildlife nutrition from molecules to macro-ecology over three years. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grant to Northwestern University will investigate how six species of wild primates in two tropical forests modulate their nutrition in response to varying food availability. The research team, which includes Rutgers University, Cornell University, Hunter College, and...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $182,143 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences to develop quantitative methods addressing sediment modification. With a completion date of August 31, 2025, this award falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research into quantitative approaches for analyzing modifications to sediment systems. The University of Arizona,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,384,257 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant funding will support a research project focused on understanding the mechanisms of nutrient sensing and homeostasis in plants. Key objectives include identifying the pathways by which plants respond to low potassium and high magnesium levels, and how...
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...
Northern Arizona University was awarded a $3 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "MIM: DISCOVERING IN REVERSE ? USING ISOTOPIC TRANSLATION OF OMICS TO REVEAL ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN MICROBIOMES" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The award is being administered under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $928,174 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems on November 1, 2021 to complete the project by October 31, 2024.
The grant funds research into how sequential acquisition of nutritional resources modulates allocation decisions from a whole-organism perspective on life history tradeoffs. This project aligns with the goals of the Biological Sciences program administered by NSF, which provides support for basic research aimed at strengthening the scientific enterprise and increasing knowledge in major areas confronting the nation, such as nutrition and life processes.
The University of Arizona, operating under the Arizona Board of Regents, will conduct the research and deliver findings to NSF on the interplay between an organism's nutritional intake over time and its life history choices, providing insights with broad relevance to biology.