Planetary Biodiversity Inventories

Post Date

March 4th 2009

Application Due Date

January 14th 2010

Full Proposal Target Date(s): January 10, 2006 January 12, 2008 January 14, 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

06-500

CFDA Number(s)

47.074

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

5

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $2500000

• Award Range:

  $None - $3000000

Grant Description

To accelerate the discovery and study of the world’s biodiversity, proposals are invited from teams of investigators to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys (or other automated identification tools) for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group. Proposals may target any particular group of organisms, from terrestrial, fresh-water, or marine habitats, at any feasible level in the taxonomic hierarchy, but must be global in scope.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Science Foundation

• Office:

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• Agency Contact:

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• Agency Email Address:

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• More Information:

  NSF Publication 06-500