Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU

Funding Opportunity Number: G14AS00069 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 30, 2014Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 19, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center (GECSC, Denver, CO) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in developing new techniques and using existing techniques to enhance understanding of the longterm effects of changes in climate and other environmental factors on the distributions of plant species and ecosystems in arid and semiarid portions of the western United States. Three questions of major interest over the next decade are (1) What plants and ecosystems are vulnerable to potential future changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry, (2) What are the long term responses of plant species to a range of changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry, and (3) What combinations of climatic conditions that could have been associated with distributions of species/ecosystems during past climatic episodes (including episodes of cooler than present and warmer than present climate) and how ...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding