Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast Mountain

Post Date

August 4th 2011

Application Due Date

August 15th 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

G11AS20076

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. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Gulf Coast Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $86000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity for research to document food sources used by APC chicks historically and contemporaneously, to elucidate diet switches in post-release animals, and to determine whether these switches are affected by season and year; determine if the apparent switch to diets dominated by plants and insects with C3 signatures from the diet mix of C4 and C3 plants provided to captives is a consequence of choice or availability at the APCNWR; characterize the carbon and nitrogen content of selected plant material and insect biomass used by APCs at the APC National Wildlife Refuge (APCNWR) and correlate it with the profile obtained in blood and feather samples of individuals currently occurring at the Refuge.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Faith Graves, 703-648-7356
  fgraves@usgs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov/