Opportunity Information: Apply for P16AS00157
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- The DOI-NPS in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent: Arthropod responses to climate change and natural disturbance events across an elevational gradient in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico." and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 10, 2016 and posted on May 10, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 20, 2016. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $59,974.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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Opportunity Summary:
This Notice of Intent from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (DOI-NPS) describes a cooperative agreement opportunity focused on understanding how climate change and major disturbance events are reshaping arthropod communities in the Jemez Mountains of northcentral New Mexico. The project is grounded in the idea that the American Southwest is already experiencing more variable and extreme weather, including warmer temperatures, deeper and more frequent drought, and larger, more severe wildfires. In the Jemez Mountains specifically, those pressures have recently coincided with substantial conifer mortality linked to drought stress, bark beetle outbreaks, and multiple large catastrophic fires. The grant is meant to support research that helps explain and track ecological change in these montane forests as the climate continues to shift.
A central emphasis of the opportunity is on arthropods, broadly defined here to include insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and certain crustaceans. The rationale is that arthropods are both ecologically important and highly responsive to environmental change. Because many species are specialized for particular combinations of temperature, moisture, and vegetation, they can reflect subtle shifts in habitat conditions. They also play key roles in forest ecosystems, influencing herbivory, predation, nutrient cycling through litter decomposition, pollination, and even pathogen transmission. Their relatively short life cycles mean their populations can change quickly after altered weather patterns or habitat disruptions, making them useful as early indicators of broader ecosystem transitions.
This funding notice builds on a long-term monitoring effort that began in 1992, established by the University of New Mexico in partnership with Bandelier National Monument and the USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station. That long-running study is organized along an elevational gradient in the Jemez Mountains, spanning low-elevation pinyon-juniper woodlands, mid-elevation ponderosa pine forests, and high-elevation mixed-conifer forests. The project’s scientific goal is to determine how climate change affects ground-dwelling arthropods across these distinct forest types and elevations, where temperature and moisture regimes differ in predictable ways. In addition to tracking gradual climate-driven shifts, the sites are also intended to function as monitoring locations for episodic disturbances that are expected to become more common or intense, such as wildfires or bark beetle attacks on dominant tree species.
From an outcomes standpoint, the opportunity is framed around using arthropods as bioindicators to detect changes in species diversity and in trophic and functional structure within montane forest ecosystems. In practical terms, that means documenting how the composition of arthropod communities changes over time (which species are present, how abundant they are, and where they occur along the elevation gradient) and relating those patterns to climate variables and disturbance history. The broader purpose is to strengthen understanding of how Southwestern forest ecosystems are reorganizing under climate pressure, with arthropod community data providing a sensitive, functionally meaningful lens on those changes.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement mechanism, indicating that substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal partner(s) is expected rather than a hands-off grant. The activity category is Natural Resources and the CFDA listing is 15.945. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, along with other eligible entities as described in the opportunity’s additional eligibility language. The opportunity anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $59,974. The notice was posted on May 10, 2016, with an application deadline of May 20, 2016, and it is identified by funding opportunity number P16AS00157.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1) What is this funding opportunity about?
This Notice of Intent from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (DOI-NPS) describes a cooperative agreement opportunity to support research on how climate change and major disturbance events are reshaping arthropod communities in the Jemez Mountains of northcentral New Mexico.
2) What is the main scientific focus of the project?
The central emphasis is on understanding ecological change in montane forests by tracking and explaining shifts in ground-dwelling arthropod communities over time, especially as climate conditions become more variable and extreme and as disturbances (such as wildfire and bark beetle outbreaks) occur.
3) Why are arthropods the focus of this study?
Arthropods are highlighted because they are ecologically important and highly responsive to environmental change. Many species are specialized for particular combinations of temperature, moisture, and vegetation, which can make them sensitive indicators of habitat change. Their short life cycles also mean populations can respond quickly to altered weather patterns or disruptions.
4) What organisms are included under the term "arthropods" in this opportunity?
Arthropods are defined broadly here to include insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and certain crustaceans.
5) What kinds of climate and disturbance pressures are motivating this work?
The opportunity is grounded in observed and expected conditions in the American Southwest, including warmer temperatures, deeper and more frequent drought, and larger, more severe wildfires. In the Jemez Mountains, these pressures have coincided with substantial conifer mortality linked to drought stress, bark beetle outbreaks, and multiple large catastrophic fires.
6) Where will the research take place?
The work is focused on the Jemez Mountains in northcentral New Mexico.
7) What is the long-term monitoring effort this funding builds on?
This notice builds on a long-term monitoring study that began in 1992. The study was established by the University of New Mexico in partnership with Bandelier National Monument and the USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station.
8) How is the monitoring study designed?
The long-running study is organized along an elevational gradient spanning multiple forest types. This design supports comparisons across predictable differences in temperature and moisture regimes across elevations.
9) What forest types are included along the elevational gradient?
The gradient spans low-elevation pinyon-juniper woodlands, mid-elevation ponderosa pine forests, and high-elevation mixed-conifer forests.
10) What is being measured or documented about arthropod communities?
The opportunity emphasizes documenting changes in arthropod community composition over time, including which species are present, their abundance, and how they are distributed along the elevational gradient. These patterns are intended to be related to climate variables and disturbance history.
11) What does it mean to use arthropods as bioindicators in this project?
Using arthropods as bioindicators means leveraging their sensitivity to habitat conditions to detect ecological change, including changes in species diversity and in trophic and functional structure within montane forest ecosystems.
12) What ecosystem processes are arthropods noted as influencing in this opportunity?
The notice describes arthropods as playing key roles in forest ecosystems, including herbivory, predation, nutrient cycling through litter decomposition, pollination, and pathogen transmission.
13) Does the project address gradual climate change, episodic disturbances, or both?
Both. The study is intended to track gradual climate-driven shifts as well as episodic disturbances expected to become more common or more intense, such as wildfires and bark beetle attacks on dominant tree species.
14) What is the expected award mechanism?
The opportunity uses a cooperative agreement mechanism.
15) What does a cooperative agreement imply for the relationship with the federal partner?
A cooperative agreement indicates substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal partner(s) is expected, rather than a fully hands-off grant arrangement.
16) Is this a discretionary funding opportunity?
Yes. It is described as a discretionary funding opportunity.
17) What is the activity category for this opportunity?
The activity category is Natural Resources.
18) What is the CFDA listing for this opportunity?
The CFDA listing is 15.945.
19) Who is eligible to apply?
Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, along with other eligible entities as described in the opportunity's additional eligibility language.
20) How many awards are anticipated?
The opportunity anticipated a single award.
21) What is the maximum funding amount (award ceiling)?
The award ceiling is $59,974.
22) What is the funding opportunity number?
The funding opportunity number is P16AS00157.
23) When was the notice posted?
The notice was posted on May 10, 2016.
24) What is the application deadline?
The application deadline is May 20, 2016.
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