The Ohio State University received a $322,954 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports research on plant-soil feedbacks and population dynamics of two arid system shrubs with contrasting spatial distributions and life histories. This work aligns with the Biological Sciences program under the CFDA number 47.074. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $713,464 project grant to the University of Oregon from May 2021 through January 2025 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research examining how climate and competition interact to determine plant and animal species' phenology and coexistence. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing knowledge of major issues facing the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded $188,656 under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to the University of Georgia Research Foundation from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026. This Project Grant will support collaborative research evaluating how iron cycling impacts the temperature sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration in humid tropical soils over time. The research combines field experiments leveraging the Tropical Responses to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $334,985 Project Grant to Oklahoma State University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds a research study titled "Effects of Experimental Warming, Disturbances, and Species Interactions on Tropical Tree Community Demography." Oklahoma State University will oversee day-to-day management of planned shade house and field...
The National Science Foundation awarded Ohio Wesleyan University a $499,750 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to establish the Macrosystems Ecology for All Research Coordination Network from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2027. The Network will provide training to ecology faculty, particularly those from teaching-focused institutions, in macrosystems ecology concepts and techniques for working with large environmental datasets. It will support...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074, provides $472,257 to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025. The award will fund research training for 36 undergraduate students over three summers, with 12 students participating each year. Students will conduct ecology and environmental science research related to urban-rural gradients,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, totaling $122,698, will fund research into the effects of climate change on sex ratios in dioecious plant populations. The award was made on September 1, 2022 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic biological research strengthening the scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University of Georgia Research Foundation will conduct collaborative research with scientists in China...
This $185,395 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research on continent-wide changes in forest recruitment across North America. The grantee, Regents of the University of Michigan, will conduct extensive gradient sampling of tree fecundity, seedling success, and vertebrate activity distributed across climate and habitat zones. Predictive vertebrate modeling using data from camera traps, live trapping, and bird...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $297,571 Project Grant under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Michigan State University. The award, which runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will fund collaborative research to investigate how the structural and functional diversity of forest canopies influences ecological climate and its impacts on plant and animal habitats. The project will leverage data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to...
The Ohio State University was awarded a $299,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for work on "EAGER: IIBR INFORMATICS: A REINFORCED IMPUTATION FRAMEWORK FOR ACCURATE GENE EXPRESSION RECOVERY FROM SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQ DATA." This two-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support the development of a new computational framework to more accurately recover gene expression profiles from single-cell RNA...