This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports collaborative research to investigate how species' functional traits influence population and community synchrony across environmental gradients. The $346,098 grant, awarded on September 15, 2024, will fund research combining long-term plant composition data with species trait data to assess how trait variation and trait-by-environment interactions regulate synchrony...
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...
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...
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 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 Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $454,886 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research to study the timescale-dependent effects of transient dynamics in plant-pollinator networks. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's...
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 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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $1,414,358 to support research examining how plant traits and species interactions influence ecosystem and population stability in the face of climate change. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will conduct theoretical modeling, greenhouse and field experiments, and engage in knowledge sharing activities from January 1, 2023 to...
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...