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News Release 16-111
NSF awards $15.9 million to foster new understanding of biological systems on regional to continental scales
Macrosystems biology and early NEON science awards support predictive understanding of large-scale biological responses to climate, land-use change
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NSF MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science researchers are studying tree genes to canopies.
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Pollinators and plants are the subject of a new MacroSystems Biology/Early NEON Science grant.
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Ecological variables and tick-borne diseases are among the new grant topics.
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MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science investigators are tracking plants' flowering timing.
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Mice-o-scapes--understanding small mammal ecology over the past 100 years--is another new project.
Credit: Holly Gellerman, Island Conservation
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Aerial views of lawns in San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Phoenix, and Levittown, N.Y.
Credit: N. Giner, Clark University
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