NSF announces new awards for research to better understand Earth’s biodiversity

NSF announces new awards for research to better understand Earth’s biodiversity

Carla Atkinson studies the evolutionary ecology of freshwater mussels.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $18 million in 10 new projects to research processes in nature and their complex interactions with climate, land use and invasive species at local, regional and continental scales. The awards are funded through NSF's Dimensions of Biodiversity program in the agency's environmental biology division.

Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet's biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is ...

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296993&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


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Published October 25, 2018 at 05:17PM
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