This grant from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Science Center supports research into climate-driven co-evolutionary dynamics, specifically hybridization and introgression among mesocarnivore species in the Arctic, boreal, and North Pacific biomes. This research is vital for informing management agencies about biodiversity changes in a warming high-latitude climate. Preliminary data show hybridization in ermine across Alaskan and Canadian regions, and between North American marten species in Southeast Alaska. The study aims to understand the ecological correlates and consequences of post-isolation events, leveraging genomic technologies like next-generation sequencing. This understanding is crucial for managing these species amidst environmental shifts.
Opportunity ID: 294193
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | G17AS00067 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau 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 30, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 30, 2017 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $55,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $55,000 |
| 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 Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Geological Survey |
| Description: | The U.S. Geological Surveyâ¿¿s Alaska Science Center is offering a funding opportunity for research focused on climate driven co-evolutionary dynamics, particularly hybridization/introgression within and among mesocarnivore species distributed through the Arctic, boreal, and North Pacific temperate rainforest biomes of Alaska and neighboring Canada. This research is critical for informing management agencies within Alaska and elsewhere as to biodiversity trajectories within a warming high latitude climate regime. Considerable preliminary data exist based on previous funded research efforts attesting to hybridization dynamics occurring between closely related ermine (Mustela erminea) lineages occupying boreal and Arctic biomes in western Alaska and eastern Canada, as well as more ancient hybridization dynamics associated with Beringian and North Pacific ermine lineages. As well, prior classical genetic research has uncovered signatures of past and recent hybridization between the two North American marten species, Martes americana and Martes caurina, on islands of the Alexander Archipelago of southeast Alaska and elsewhere along the North Pacific Coast. The history of diversification of these mesocarnivore species includes divergent ecological habitat affinities and isolation-reconnection dynamics associated with sea-level changes and post-isolation secondary contact (including human-caused translocation efforts) through the biogeographic province of Beringia. Obtaining a more nuanced understanding of the temporal ecological correlates of these post-isolation events, and their consequences, benefits from the application of genomic (next-generation sequencing and parallel tagged amplicon sequencing) technologies. |
| 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 294193 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 | G17AS00067 | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU | PKG00232829 | May 30, 2017 | Jun 16, 2017 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
294193 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
294193 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
294193 SF424A-1.0.pdf
294193 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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