This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research conducted by the University of California, Davis to investigate how species traits influence population and community synchrony across environmental gradients. The $259,844 award, effective from September 2024 through August 2027, will integrate plant composition data from a global grassland experiment with species trait data to assess how trait variation...
This $282,184 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research at New Mexico State University (NMSU) to investigate the role of functional traits in population and community synchrony. The research combines plant composition data from a global grassland experiment with species trait data to assess how traits and trait-by-environment interactions influence synchrony patterns across environmental...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded on August 15, 2024 for $214,838, will support collaborative research to study how local adaptation and climatic extremes shape continental-scale changes in distribution and abundance under climate change. The project will use transplant experiments and long-term monitoring of two widespread tundra plant species across 29 populations in western North America. The research aims to develop...
This $102,864 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program will fund a collaborative research project titled "OPUS: Advancing Theory and Concept of Ecosystem Heterogeneity: A Five-Decade Synthesis." The project aims to study how the fundamental ecological concept of "patchiness" or spatial heterogeneity has progressed over time, integrating insights from community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and urban...
This $949,431 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, supports research to investigate how the timing of seasonal life cycles influences interactions among multiple species, especially indirect effects involving shared predators or resources. The project will integrate experiments studying amphibian pond communities with theoretical models to determine how variation in the sequence and spacing of species' phenologies...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $799,458 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) for the 3-year period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund collaborative research to integrate plant traits, phylogenies, and distributional data to forecast the risks and resilience of North American plant communities in response to climate and land use changes. The...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers provided $138,000 in funding to integrate genetic and morphological concepts of diversity in ecological and environmental contexts. The award falls under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic research to advance understanding of major issues facing the nation. Specifically, the grant recipient will conduct postdoctoral research from January 2022 through...
This $299,551 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Colorado State University to evaluate the impacts of plant biodiversity on the productivity of grasslands and forests across the United States. The project will use remote sensing technologies and field-based observations to characterize different facets of biodiversity and quantify their relationships with primary productivity. The research aims to...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $711,741 awarded on October 1, 2022 will fund research and education activities advancing understanding of climate-phenology coupling through 2026. Under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the University of Michigan will develop a macrosystems framework to quantify interactions between climate and phenology across scales. Researchers will analyze phenology data globally and from the National Ecological Observatory Network to...