This $670,495 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research into drought and cold resistance in Northeastern U.S. tree species. Under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the University of New Hampshire will lead a collaborative effort to investigate how Northeastern tree species respond to drought and how those adaptations impact vulnerability to other climate stressors like extreme cold. The research team will conduct extensive field measurements of drought-related...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $502,817 Project Grant to Smith College under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The grant will support research to understand tree phloem functioning during drought conditions. Specifically, the grantee will quantify differences in phloem function for mature forest trees under control and drought scenarios. Experiments will investigate when the phloem loses function...
This $256,599 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research to investigate the role of tree carbohydrate dynamics in drought recovery mechanisms. The project aims to develop the ability to remotely measure tree carbohydrates using hyperspectral imaging and predict drought recovery and survival before drought onset. Key research activities include greenhouse and field studies to examine how maintaining higher pre-drought...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $472,614 to Cornell University from July 2022 through June 2026 to study the impacts of severe drought on tropical forest post-disturbance recovery. Specifically, the researchers are conducting a rainfall manipulation experiment in a forest in Puerto Rico that is recovering from Hurricane Maria in 2017. The project aims to characterize and predict forest resilience to climate change by...
This $333,092 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at North Carolina State University to quantify tree recruitment and vertebrate consumer relationships across North America. The research will collect extensive gradient sampling data on tree fecundity, recruitment stages from seed supply to seedling establishment to advanced regeneration, and vertebrate activity linked to climate and habitat variables. Predictive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ORCC: INTEGRATING LEAF METABOLOMICS AND TREE DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON FORESTS IN THE ROCKIES AND SMOKIES", provides $446,865 to the University of Denver to conduct interdisciplinary research on the impacts of climate change on forests in the Rocky Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. The researchers are using a...
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...
This $252,739 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support collaborative research to understand how pine trees adapt to manage water on their needles. The research aims to decipher the interplay between needle shape, surface properties, and elasticity that enable pine trees to passively shed water, which is crucial for photosynthesis and tree health. The project will combine experiments, ecological data analysis, and...
This $100,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences CFDA program, will support research to improve the representation of plants in ecosystem models. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Investigating methods to estimate plant traits using evolutionary histories to improve the parameterization of vegetation hydraulic traits in hydrologic and ecosystem models....
This National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $127,687 to Warren Wilson College to conduct collaborative research on the role of plant-associated microbes in forest ecosystems from November 2022 to May 2025. The research will explore how tree diversity influences leaf and root microbiome communities, leaf chemistry, insect populations, and ultimately tree productivity. Researchers will leverage a 32-acre tree biodiversity experiment in...