Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Californian CESU

Post Date

August 25th 2010

Application Due Date

September 1st 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

10HQPA0098

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the California Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $40532

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS, Western Ecological Research Center’s (WERC) Yosemite/Bishop Field Station, is offering a funding opportunity to explore and to bridge the gaps in knowledge of climate effects on alpine mammals and their habitats throughout the Sierra Nevada. Our collaborator in this effort includes the University of California – Davis. The three principal goals are to use ground-based surveys and remote sensing data to develop models of the contemporary ranges for the five species; use a combination of field experiments and ground-based surveys to evaluate the degree to which plant-animal interactions may alter transitions of alpine meadows to woody dominate communities; and use data from the field experiments and ground-based surveys to develop and compare models of projected range shifts with and without incorporation of the effect the mammals have on meadow conversion. The critical aspect of this approach is the testing of multiple models of projected vegetation transitions with and without variables representing shifts in mammal ranges and feedbacks from herbivory and granivory.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  FAITH GRAVES
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 703-648-7356

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contract Specialist

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov