This grant, offered by the Environmental Research Department, aims to investigate the impacts of aluminum toxicity, calcium availability, and nitrogen saturation on plant species distribution in threatened high-elevation spruce-fir forests. The project will correlate existing soil chemistry data with soil solution chemistry using lysimeters. This initiative is designed to enhance the utility of findings for assessing ecological thresholds in critical load models. Specifically, this grant focuses on determining the variability of soil solution chemistry across these forests, understanding the relationship between bulk soil and soil solution chemistry, and evaluating the applicability of non-lysimeter methods for collecting soil solution samples in southern Appalachian spruce-fir forests. This research is crucial for understanding environmental stressors on vital forest ecosystems.
Opportunity ID: 54270
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | NPS-NOI-GRSM-10-GR02 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Are threatened high-elevation spruce-fir forest impacted by aluminum toxicity and calcium loss? |
| 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: | — |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 04, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 18, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 18, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | Jun 17, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $25,523 |
| Award Ceiling: | $25,523 |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This is a "Notice of Intent" of a single source task agreement award to the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO under the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). The cooperator for this project was chosen because of the unique ability to conduct this research. The PI’s research program has the overarching goal of identifying and quantifying key ecological processes and interactions that define ecological sustainability. The PI examines how resource availability (e.g., light, water, nutrients, carbon) and disturbances (e.g., management interventions, fire, exotic invasions) influence ecosystem structure and function in agroforests, natural forest, and plantation forests. In addition, the PI worked closely with researchers on the first phase of this project from inception to implementation. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Park Service |
| Description: | The Cooperator will examine how aluminum toxicity, calcium availability, and nitrogen saturation vary with modeled deposition, topography, and edaphic characteristics and how these factors influence the distribution of plant species. This supplemental implementation plan for year 3 describes how we will use lysimeters to correlate soil chemistry data, collected in year 1 and 2 of the project, to soil solution chemistry. This will allow the results of this project to be more useful in assessing the ecological thresholds of critical load models. The project specifically addresses the following objectives: 1. Determine the variability of soil solution chemistry across spruce-fir forests 2.Determine the relationship between bulk soil chemistry and soil solution chemistry 3. Determine if a non-lysimeter method of collecting soil solution samples is applicable to spruce-fir forests of the southern Appalachians |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Tonya Bradley
Contract Specialist Phone 402-661-1656 Email:tonya_bradley@nps.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Tonya Bradley Contract Specialist Phone 402-661-1656 Email: tonya_bradley@nps.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PKG00018476 | May 04, 2010 | May 18, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
54270 SF424-2.0.pdf
54270 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
54270 SF424A-1.0.pdf
54270 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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