Title: Ecological Impacts from the Interactions of Climate Change, Land Use Change
and Invasive Species: A Joint Research Solicitation - EPA, USDA

URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2007/2007_star_ecoimpacts.html

Open Date: 03/26/2007 - Close Date: 06/26/2007

Summary: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve
Results (STAR) Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)
National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program are seeking
applications for research on the ecological impacts from interactions of
climate change, land use change, and invasive species. An invasive species is
an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or
environmental harm or harm to human health. The purpose of this joint
solicitation is to quantitatively investigate how climate change, climate
variability, and land use change: (1) influence the establishment, abundance
and distribution of invasive species; (2) interact with invasive species to
create feedbacks that increase their success; (3) interact with invasive
species to cause threshold responses in natural and managed systems; or (4)
affect the chemical, biological and mechanical management of invasive species.
The EPA is interested in proposals addressing aquatic ecosystems and the USDA
in proposals addressing managed terrestrial systems, both of which can be used
to enhance decision support tools used by decision makers to respond to
invasive species.