This National Science Foundation project grant of $352,942 supports research into the ecological and evolutionary responses of the iconic California poppy to increasing aridity across its range from 2023 to 2027. The University of Connecticut, as prime awardee, will conduct field observations, greenhouse experiments, population genetics analyses, and species distribution modeling to improve predictions of species persistence under climate change. Researchers will study genetic variation in...
University of California, Merced was awarded a $276,129 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The award's completion date is May 31, 2027. The grant will fund research into improving predictions of ecological and evolutionary responses to increasing aridity across the range of the iconic California poppy plant species. The university will employ multiple approaches,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant, awarded to Scripps College on January 1, 2025 for $344,805, will evaluate the effects of weather conditions on plant populations in coastal California. The research aims to analyze long-term data on plant survival, growth, and reproduction to compare different statistical modeling methods for predicting how climate change impacts, such as increased drought, will affect plant communities. The project will...
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...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $500,611 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to support research into the mechanisms of altitudinal range expansion by plant species under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino will analyze historical and contemporary plant samples to elucidate patterns of adaptation that have allowed the model species Arabidopsis...
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 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research to explore the mechanisms and repeatability of speciation (the formation of new species) with gene flow in dune sunflowers. The $806,156 award, granted on March 15, 2025, will fund a 5-year project at the University of California, Riverside to address three primary research questions: (1) how and why assortative mating evolves between sunflower...
This $680,134 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research at the University of California, Davis examining the effects of phenological shifts on plant-insect interactions due to climate change. The grantee will use herbarium specimens collected over the past hundred years and an experimental garden mimicking past, present and future climatic conditions to assess potential novel species interactions resulting from changes...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers provides $258,490 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: INTEGRATING EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS AND POPULATION ECOLOGY TO DETECT CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS A SPECIES RANGE." The research aims to advance understanding of how bee populations are adapting to...
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...