This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $524,000 will support the development of network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity responses to climate change and species invasions in marine biological communities. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award reflects NSF's mission to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the scientific enterprise.
Specifically, researchers at the University of California, Davis will leverage long-term data and paleontological records from the Californian, Chilean, and South African coasts to develop new models integrating empirical data with network ecology, oceanography, paleontology, evolution, theoretical ecology, and community ecology approaches. The models aim to predict how functional trait responses to environmental changes may impact ecosystem resistance and resilience over time. In addition, the grant will support early career scientist workshops and diversity initiatives through January 2025.
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