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"The Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) announced today a funding opportunity for research proposals that address high priority knowledge gaps associated with natural resource conservation and management across the nation’s heartland.
Research projects under consideration for 2014 funding must address one or both of the following science themes as they relate to prairie restoration, river restoration, agroecology conservation practices and/or urban watershed management.
Ecosystem services – Synthesize data on ecosystem services related to emerging conservation practices and develop optimization models to determine effective strategies for landscape-scale conservation design and delivery. Studies may address ecological and economic values, human dimensions of incentives for adoption, and/or public perception and policies.
Conservation endpoints – Define a matrix of desired outcomes for context-dependent restoration decisions and determine a suite of metrics within a consistent underlying framework to measure impact, anticipate return on investment, and communicate success at multiple scales…Metrics may include factors such as restored connectivity, expanded habitat, species targets, education/outreach, agency mandates, and/or stakeholder perceptions."
For further information about elibility requirements and for application materials, go to: http://www.tallgrassprairielcc.org/news/funding-opportunity-to-benefit-landscape-level-natural-resource-conservation-and-management-in-the-midwest/
Renée Gracon