Project Grant 2515538
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program awarded $1,471,168.00 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for a collaborative research project titled "Density Dependent Plant-Mycorrhizal-Soil Interactions Create Self-Reinforcing Feedbacks on Woody Encroachment in Tundra Ecosystems." The project aims to evaluate the role of associations between plants and root-soil fungi in contributing to shrub expansion in alpine tundra...
- This $841,120 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research by Colorado State University to investigate the physiology, phenology, and phylogeny of grass species. The research aims to develop improved mechanistic models for predicting how grass distributions may respond to changing environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures and precipitation patterns. Specifically, the project will use...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $487,639 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct long-term monitoring and research on plant community dynamics in the Colorado alpine biome. The project aims to assemble a unique long-term dataset on population and community changes in response to rapid environmental changes, such as climate change, to advance ecological theory and forecasting. Key activities...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $2,275,000 Project Grant to New Mexico State University to study the shift from grasslands to shrublands in drylands of the Southwestern U.S. The research aims to advance understanding of this ecological change, including how weather, land management, and biotic interactions influence the transition, and how it impacts carbon and nutrient cycling, soil erosion, and human wellbeing. The project will also...
- This $159,804 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a collaborative research study to synthesize long-term, multi-site data on the demographic responses of two tundra plant species to environmental variation across western North America. The goal is to understand how climate-driven changes in survival, growth, and reproduction of these plant populations could impact their geographical ranges. The research team at the...
- This $706,641 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports collaborative research to investigate the role of plant-soil feedbacks in promoting the resilience of pinon woodlands in the western United States to severe drought conditions. The research involves field inoculations of pinon pine seedlings with beneficial soil microbes, laboratory assays, and greenhouse experiments to understand how plant-microbe...
- This $793,094 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program will fund research at the University of Colorado to quantify how global environmental changes, such as drought and warming, impact biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The project aims to transform understanding of the causal mechanisms by which biodiversity responds to global change drivers and how those biodiversity changes then feed back to alter productivity and other ecosystem...
- This $202,001 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to investigate plant-soil feedbacks and their role in the resilience of pinon woodlands to severe drought. The key objectives are to: Test the hypothesis that adding beneficial soil microbes can aid the recovery of pinon pine seedlings in areas impacted by experimental severe drought. DNA sequencing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $420,762.00 to Colorado State University to conduct research on the role of mycorrhizal associations in shaping density-dependent threshold dynamics and how these feedbacks shift across heterogeneous tundra ecosystems. The objectives of the 4-year project include: (1) quantifying heterogeneity in rates of woody plant expansion using remote sensing and supervised image classification, (2) assessing biotic and abiotic drivers of woody expansion, including mycorrhizal colonization rates, communities, and soil biogeochemistry, (3) investigating the role of mycorrhizal symbionts in mediating shrub growth rates and nitrogen transformations, and (4) integrating field and modeling experiments across different spatial scales to understand plant-soil feedbacks that may result in shrub expansion into alpine ecosystems. The project will also engage K-12 students and educators, train undergraduate students through project-based research, and mentor a graduate student on ecosystem-scale simulation modeling.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $420.8k | 8/14/25 |