This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding over 3 years starting June 1, 2025 to investigate how an alpine plant species in the Rocky Mountains will respond and adapt to climate change. The research aims to understand how population responses to microclimate variation impact range shifts under climate change scenarios. The project will use field and greenhouse experiments, genetic analyses, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $487,639 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct long-term monitoring and research on plant community dynamics in the Colorado alpine biome. The project aims to assemble a unique long-term dataset on population and community changes in response to rapid environmental changes, such as climate change, to advance ecological theory and forecasting. Key activities...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded on August 15, 2024 for $214,838, will support collaborative research to study how local adaptation and climatic extremes shape continental-scale changes in distribution and abundance under climate change. The project will use transplant experiments and long-term monitoring of two widespread tundra plant species across 29 populations in western North America. The research aims to develop...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, a $458,919 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The 3-year grant, active from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will support a collaborative research project to integrate plant trait data, phylogenetic relationships, and species distribution models to forecast the resilience of North...
This $159,804 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a collaborative research study to synthesize long-term, multi-site data on the demographic responses of two tundra plant species to environmental variation across western North America. The goal is to understand how climate-driven changes in survival, growth, and reproduction of these plant populations could impact their geographical ranges. The research team at the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $210,322 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to conduct collaborative research on how local adaptation and climatic extremes will shape continental-scale changes in the distribution and abundance of two common tundra plant species under climate change. The award will fund long-term monitoring of wild populations of Silene acaulis...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $206,971 to the University of California, Merced under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The four-year project grant will support collaborative research to harness adaptive genetic variation in drought resistance strategies to manage plant populations under climate change. Researchers will characterize how genetic variation acts through regulatory networks to adaptively tune organismal...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $622,375 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. Through this award, UCSD will conduct collaborative research to develop integrated mechanistic predictions of ecological and evolutionary responses to increasing aridity across the range of the iconic California poppy plant species. UCSD researchers will employ multiple approaches including field...
This $156,669 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports collaborative research to examine the impacts of the evolution of land plants on Earth's landscapes, climate, and biogeochemical cycles. The research team from the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) is conducting field, laboratory, and modeling studies focused on the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to reconstruct ecological and environmental...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $303,166 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026. The grant will fund an interdisciplinary team to study the migratory and adaptive potential of the partridge pea plant (Chamaecrista fasciculata) under climate change. The researchers will evaluate genetic differences and gene flow among plant populations to identify models...