This $311,397 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to integrate mathematical models and microcosm experiments to understand the effects of disturbances, such as fire, drought, and flooding, on community interactions in biological systems. The key objectives of the 3-year project (Aug 2024 - Jul 2027) are to: 1) Determine the differential impacts of pulse (short-term) versus press (long-term)...
This $280,634 federal Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Florida on how individual variation in species traits can influence ecosystem stability. The project aims to develop a theoretical framework for studying "trait-shift induced interaction modification" and its effects on ecological dynamics. Researchers will integrate mathematical modeling and empirical analysis to...
This two-year, $276,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds statistical modeling and simulation research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grantee will develop a unified theoretical, empirical and computational framework to predict how ecological and evolutionary dynamics propagate in response to perturbations across scales over time. Using agent-based simulations of random and experimentally perturbed eco-evolutionary systems, the grantee will characterize...
This $139,114 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of computational models to predict changes in biodiversity patterns over time at the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. Over the one-year period from May 2023 to April 2024, the awardee will synthesize decades of species distribution data and research to generate dynamic models incorporating factors like physiology and species interactions. A...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Arizona State University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant is funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise and increase scientific knowledge. The project, titled "EMB: Mathematical Classification of Complexity in Population Dynamics", will generate biological and...
This $261,226 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) that aims to bridge ecosystem dynamics with evolutionary genetics. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Analyzing the persistence and stability of equilibria in ecological network models, and linking these to the underlying fitness...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award of $739,821 to the University of Florida will fund an interdisciplinary research and educational approach integrating mathematical models and ecological experiments to study heterogeneity in lizard-malaria transmission. The 5-year project, starting on June 1, 2025, aims to develop mathematical models describing vector-borne parasite transmission under various host heterogeneity scenarios, including...
This $253,778 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support research at the University of Illinois to integrate mathematical theory with empirical life history data to better understand plant species coexistence strategies. The project aims to develop theoretical models analyzing the dynamics of plant communities where each species has unique growth, mortality, and reproduction characteristics. This research will also...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $748,624 to North Carolina State University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding will support research to develop integrated distribution models for approximately 100 North American mammal species. Researchers will combine traditional museum data with new camera trap and citizen science data, including from the National Ecological Observatory Network and Snapshot USA program....
This $116,555 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support research to develop a better understanding of biological invasions across spatial scales. The award will fund the compilation of an open-access database of species invasion data collected by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), which will be analyzed using advanced statistical modeling techniques. The goal is to investigate the relative roles of...