Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2034 The University of Texas at El Paso (143922)
Principal Investigator: La Rue,Elizabeth Ann
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 4,057
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 5/1/22 - 11/23/22
Restricted Research: NO
Academic Discipline: Biological Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Biological Sciences
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Exploring New Dimensions of Forest Ecosystems with Structural Diversity
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
CFDA Link: NSF
47.074
Program Title:
Biological Sciences
CFDA Linked: Biological Sciences
Note:
Structural diversity - the volume and physical arrangement of biotic components in ecosystems - has important implications for ecosystem pattern and process, including responses to global change threats. However, our theoretical understanding of the cross-ecosystem controls of structural diversity on ecological processes is limited due to inconsistent approaches for measuring it (i.e. aquatic/marine vs. terrestrial, grassland vs. forest). To address this gap, LaRue is organizing a workshop for twelve participants from May 9-11 in El Paso, TX on “Establishing standardized cross-ecosystem structural diversity indices” as part of NSF grant (DEB# 1924942). The workshop expands upon a virtual meeting held in May 2020 and a special issue featuring 7 peer-reviewed articles in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment that will be published February 2023. This workshop is being supported by DEB# 1924942 to utilize funds that originally could not be used in May 2020 for travel due to public health restrictions and challenges caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this workshop is to develop a set of ecologically relevant, standardized metrics that can be used with different remote sensing techniques to measure the structural diversity of sessile biota (i.e. vegetation, corals) in different ecosystem types. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to collaborate on the writing of a paper to disseminate the workshop synthesis on the topic.
Discussion:
Withdrawn by Institution (Manuela Dokie) - Previously reported in 2022.