Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
Supporting long-term research projects in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science through the LTREB Program, focusing on extended data series and important environmental questions.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Amounts: Up to $600,000 total per award (5 years); approx. $6,000,000 total program funding annually
Summary: Supports long-term research projects generating extended time series of data to address key questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science.
Description
The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) program funds projects that require the collection and analysis of data over extended periods (typically a decade or longer) to address significant questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. The program particularly supports research on processes and phenomena that cannot be adequately understood through short-term studies, such as the effects of natural selection, interspecific interactions, long-lived population dynamics, feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes, and the impacts of climatic cycles or other long-interval external forces.
Projects must be hypothesis-driven, grounded in at least six years of core data collected by the proposing team, and must articulate a decadal research plan. The intent is to foster research that advances general understanding in environmental biology and provides datasets of broad value to the scientific community.
LTREB proposals are reviewed by one of three clusters within NSF's Division of Environmental Biology: Ecosystem Science, Population and Community Ecology, or Evolutionary Processes. Marine ecological research is generally not supported, but studies focusing on evolutionary dynamics in marine systems are eligible.
