Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Desert Southwest CESU

Post Date

June 12th 2014

Application Due Date

June 23rd 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

G14AS00084

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

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $45404

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK), is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to evaluate riparian ecosystems in the Sonoran Desert. Declines in native amphibians in Arizona have been attributed to degradation and fragmentation of habitat, reductions in surface water, disease, and invasions by nonnative species. The Center proposes to determine how rates of survival, reproduction, and growth of lowland leopard frogs and canyon treefrogs govern patterns of occupancy and abundance, and to test hypotheses about the links among these demographic processes, availability of surface water, and Bd infection. This information will be used to identify specific values of ranges of demographic rates that can serve as thresholds to differentiate stable metapopulations from those vulnerable to extinction in the foreseeable future given the anticipated range of future environmental conditions. The anticipation is that this information can be utilized within a structured decision-making context to help inform and develop management strategies that will address demographic rates and life stages that govern rates of change in occupancy and abundance, direct management actions to the appropriate spatial scale given demographic models and predicted effects of threats, and trigger management actions in time to prevent irreversible changes. The intent is to advance our understanding of factors that govern population dynamics of amphibians in desert riparian areas and provide resources to enhance their conservation and management.

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/