This $255,423 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to incorporate secondary foundation species into coastal restoration efforts conducted by Duke University from May 2023 through April 2026. The research aims to test approaches that restore secondary foundation species to increase growth of primary foundation species, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions like climate resistance at restored sites. Key products include...
This $228,975 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research on the resilience of a foundational ant-acacia mutualism following the removal of an invasive ant species in central Kenya. The project aims to determine whether the original ant-acacia partnership and ecosystem can be restored after the removal of the invasive ant, and how factors like rainfall influence this resilience. The research will employ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $981,074 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) on August 15, 2024. The grant, titled "DISES: Socioecological Outcomes of Restoration in Forest-Grassland Ecosystems," investigates how and why restoration programs impact social and environmental systems in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research employs multiple methods, including remote sensing, field-based ecological...
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 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 National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) Project Grant award of $599,999.00 will support long-term studies of salt marsh primary production in North Inlet, South Carolina. The research, which builds upon over 35 years of prior work, aims to test three key hypotheses related to the regulation of marsh elevation gain, the relationship between primary production and soil organic matter decomposition, and the impacts of accelerating sea-level rise on mineral deposition...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Effects of Individual Experience on Population Social Structure: Integrating Development, Gene Expression and Social Ecology." The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research from March 2022 to February 2024 in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
This $521,796 National Science Foundation project grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at San Diego State University Foundation from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The research will investigate how changing ocean conditions like ocean acidification and nutrient pollution affect the growth and survival of eelgrass, a foundational species that provides valuable ecosystem services. Researchers will examine how these stressors interact with local...
This $1,599,937 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of California, Davis and Humboldt State University from July 2021 through June 2026. The grant funds ecological and social science research to develop a socio-environmental systems framework for informing coastal habitat restoration decisions under climate change. At UC Davis, the grant supports coordination of scuba diving research at multiple northern...
This $442,219 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research at North Carolina State University to test incorporating secondary foundation species into coastal habitat restoration efforts. The research aims to increase ecosystem regrowth, biodiversity recovery, and climate resistance through harnessing beneficial species interactions. Specifically, the project will test how enhancing previously restored sites and co-restoring primary foundation species with complementary or similar secondary foundation species, at both low and high abundances, affects primary species growth, local biodiversity, and key ecosystem functions. Survey work will also quantify secondary species abundance and complementarity relationships with changes in primary species, biodiversity, and ecosystem function across sites. Results will inform evidence-based restoration approaches and be integrated into training materials to support conservation scientists and provide hands-on demonstration of techniques. The award period is from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026.