Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Basin CESU

Funding Opportunity Number: G15AS00069 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 15.808Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DOI-USGS1Closing Date: May 15, 2015Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Apr 28, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a Member of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled ¿Geospatial Analyses of Western Landscapes¿. This project is aimed at gaining a better understanding of population connectivity and habitat availability for western wildlife and plants by identifying existing corridors and core habitat areas that have the potential to promote gene flow and population viability across a landscape encumbered by a variety of renewable energy development areas in addition to utility and transportation corridors, military training, recreation activities, urbanization, and climate change. Present, past, and future species distributions will be analyzed by incorporating various climate scenarios. Data from a variety of projects and different research designs will be spatially analyzed using a library of environmental covariate...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding