Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

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Dimensions of Biodiversity

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2010

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Dimensions of Biodiversity is a program solicitation from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. FY 2010 was year one of the program. [MORE from NSF]

The NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity program seeks to characterize biodiversity on Earth by using integrative, innovative approaches to fill rapidly the most substantial gaps in our understanding. The program will take a broad view of biodiversity, and in its initial phase will focus on the integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Project investigators are encouraged to integrate these three dimensions to understand the interactions and feedbacks among them. While this focus complements several core NSF programs, it differs by requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously, to understand the roles of biodiversity in critical ecological and evolutionary processes.

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An Integrated Study of Energy Metabolism, Carbon Fixation, and Colonization Mechanisms in Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities at Deep-Sea Vents (Microbial Communities at Deep-Sea Vents)
Bacterial Taxa that Control Sulfur Flux from the Ocean to the Atmosphere (OceanSulfurFluxBact)
Biological Controls on the Ocean C:N:P ratios (Biological C:N:P ratios)
Coevolution of scleractinian corals and their associated microorganisms (GCMB)
Collaborative Research: Dimensions: Evolutionary Ecology of Sponges and Their Microbiome Drives Sponge Diversity on Coral Reefs (DimensionsSponge)
Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Genetic, functional and phylogenetic diversity determines marine phytoplankton community responses to changing temperature and nutrients (Phytoplankton Community Responses)
Dimensions: Diversity, assembly and function of microbial communities on suspended and sinking particles in a marine Oxygen Deficient Zone (ETNP_ParticleOmics)
Dimensions: Links Between Spectral Irradiance and Cryptophyte Biodiversity in Environments from Ponds to Oceans (Spectral Irradiance and Cryptophyte Biodiversity)
Dimensions: The Role of Viruses in Structuring Biodiversity in Methanotrophic Marine Ecosystems (Viruses in Methanotrophic Marine Ecosystems)
Dimensions: Uncovering the novel diversity of the copepod microbiome and its effect on habitat invasions by the copepod host (CopepodMicrobiome)
Do Parallel Patterns Arise from Parallel Processes? (PaPaPro)
Functional diversity of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton and their contributions to the C and N cycling (DimBio NABE)
Oligotrophic phytoplankton community response to changes in N substrates and the resulting impact on genetic, taxonomic and functional diversity (PhytoNsubResponse)
Pattern and Process in Marine Bacterial, Archaeal, and Protistan Biodiversity, and Effects of Human Impacts (Bacterial, Archaeal, and Protistan Biodiversity)
Significance of nitrification in shaping planktonic biodiversity in the ocean (Nitrification and Marine Planktonic Biodiversity)

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