This grant by the USGS aims to analyze existing Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) fisheries data using multivariate parametric models. The core purpose is to gain insight into fish habitat requirements across communities, focusing on associations with environmental factors often manipulated in restoration projects like depth, velocity, and temperature. By employing latent guild models, researchers can evaluate abundance and distribution responses to environmental gradients across species, enabling inference on community-wide habitat requirements. The project will assess if seasonal habitat associations align with life history hypotheses and allow understanding of poorly understood species by borrowing information from similar, well-known species. Finally, developing these models for multiple study reaches will reveal variations in species-level and community responses.
Opportunity ID: 293699
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G17AS00064 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Plains CESU |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.808 — U.S. Geological Survey_ Research and Data Collection |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 08, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 22, 2017 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 22, 2017 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 08, 2017 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $14,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $14,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUâ¿¿s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research to use multivariate parametric models with existing Long Term Resource Monitoring element (LTRM) fisheries data to gain insight into fish habitat requirements across communities, with emphasis on associations with environmental covariates that are commonly manipulated through restoration projects (e.g., depth, velocity, temperature). The use of latent guild models allows us to evaluate abundance and distribution responses to environmental gradients across species, allowing inference on community-wide habitat requirements. By inferring guilds by seasonal sampling period from models, we can evaluate whether seasonal habitat associations align with hypotheses made based on life history guilds. Further, if model-based estimates of habitat associations do align with life history guilds, we can gain an understanding of life history attributes of poorly understood and possibly rarer species by borrowing information from similarly clustered, but well understood and more common species. Finally, by developing latent guild models for multiple study reaches, we can evaluate the variation in species-level responses and the diversity in fish community responses across reaches. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Faith Graves 703-648-7356
fgraves@usgs.gov Email:fgraves@usgs.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 293699 Full Announcement-FUNDING OPPORTUNITY -> FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Faith Graves 703-648-7356 fgraves@usgs.gov Email: fgraves@usgs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.808 | G17AS00064 | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Plains CESU | PKG00232429 | May 08, 2017 | May 22, 2017 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
293699 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
293699 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
293699 SF424A-1.0.pdf
293699 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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