Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Southern Appalachian Mountians CESU

Post Date

February 3rd 2014

Application Due Date

February 14th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00031

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 Southern Appalachian Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $50000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, is offering a funding opportunity to conduct research that analyzes the response of tree species and forest types across the US to N deposition, emphasizing the consequences for biodiversity, climate, and C sequestration. Data sets will be gathered, evaluated, and then synthesized to produce a spatially representative assessment of the relationships between plant-available soil chemistry and plant response. Specific tasks include assembling data on soil solution, soil exchange chemistry, and plant responses for field plots in the US and Canada to determine if there are thresholds that can be related to detrimental plant physiological responses. A data base of these records will be developed, and then further used to scale up analysis to the continental US using FIA (Forest Inventory Analysis) data. Using hierarchical Bayesian analyses, data will be analyzed for tree growth and survival as a function of N deposition, species, tree growth stage, soil type and climate.

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