The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,243 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from January 2023 through December 2025. The research aims to understand how stochasticity and spatial context impact the dynamics of functional diversity in freshwater ecosystems under global change. Specifically, the grantee will conduct...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $134,250 awarded on January 1, 2023 will fund research examining the roles of stochasticity and spatial context in the dynamics of functional diversity in stream ecosystems under global change. The research will be conducted through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) in collaboration between the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University System of Maryland.
The project aims to advance understanding of how community...
This $425,200 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Arizona State University from July 2022 through June 2024 towards understanding responses to climate change and invasion vulnerability in drylands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The research will combine geospatial techniques such as species distribution modeling with a trait-based methodology to assess amphibian species' vulnerability to...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program ($937,251) funds research into scaling climate connectivity and communities in streams. Led by Pennsylvania State University from March 2022 through December 2023, the grant supports a three-year field study across 10 regions in the southern, central, and western U.S. Researchers will collect streamflow and biological data to investigate differences between intermittent and perennial streams. The University...
This $450,260 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support collaborative research by the University of Montana to investigate the thermal vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities of cutthroat trout predators and tailed frog prey in mountain streams of the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
The research team will use a multidisciplinary approach combining DNA sequencing, physiology experiments, and computer modeling to understand how...
This $197,022 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research at Louisiana Tech University examining the effects of leaf diversity on aquatic insect colonizer diversity. The university researchers will manipulate the mixtures of dead tree leaves in artificial ponds to study how the diversity of tree species surrounding aquatic habitats affects aquatic biodiversity....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) is for a collaborative research project that will assess the impact of extreme flooding caused by Hurricane Helene on the population genetic structure and phenotypic traits of several freshwater fish species in the Southern Appalachian region. The $118,674 award to Florida State University will fund the resampling of approximately 20 sites across three river basins that were...
This $2.9 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers will fund research from 2023 to 2027 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). Oregon State University will lead a collaborative effort to study the resilience of freshwater ecosystems under changing climate conditions. Researchers will test how biodiversity and individual variation among species affect an ecosystem's ability to withstand environmental changes. They will conduct...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $928,161 Project Grant to The Reed Institute under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to resolve multi-scale ecological consequences of thermal refuges amidst climate warming. Over a five-year period ending April 2028, the grantee will document the extent and patterns of diversity associated with thermal refuges in freshwater ecosystems. Research will assess population-level costs and benefits...
This $224,827 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research to quantify how salinization impacts carbon processing across the boundaries between terrestrial riparian zones and stream ecosystems. The primary objectives are to: 1) measure field relationships between terrestrial and stream carbon dynamics across a salinity gradient, 2) experimentally determine how soil salinization affects carbon exchange...
This $1,082,076 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a research project by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate the impacts of climate change and land use on stream biodiversity in the Appalachian region. The project will deploy high-frequency sensors to monitor dissolved oxygen levels in stream habitats and link these environmental conditions to the behaviors and reproductive success of the Eastern Hellbender, a sensitive salamander species. The findings will guide conservation actions, including releasing hatchlings to circumvent population declines caused by filial cannibalism. The research aims to advance scientific understanding of the connections between organismal, population, and ecosystem ecology, and inform evidence-based strategies to conserve freshwater biodiversity impacted by climate change. The award will also provide research training and engagement opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.