Geological Survey

Description

The US Geological Survey, Tennessee Water Science Center, is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research related to impacts on southeastern grasslands from climate change and invasive species. Research Objectives: 1. To perform field experiments in a tall-grass prairie site to examine interacting effects of climate change and invasive species. 2. To meet research objective 1 above, field experiments will be conducted to examine interactive effects of warming and precipitation treatments and the invasive species Lespedeza cuneata on native plant communities in tall-grass prairies. 3. Findings from the field experiments will be published as one or more USGS data releases, with appropriate metadata, along with one or more scientific journal papers.

Who can apply

• Others

Contact

Faith Graves 703-648-7356<br/>fgraves@usgs.gov
fgraves@usgs.gov