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According to our matching algorithm, Laura Prugh is the likely recipient of the following grants.
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Recipients |
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Title / Keywords |
Matching score |
2014 — 2018 |
Prugh, Laura |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Research: Interactive Effects of Climate, Ecosystem Engineering, and Trophic Interactions On Grassland Community Dynamics @ University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
Predicting the effects of climate change on ecological systems is complicated by the many separate and interacting ways in which climate can affect the different species and processes in the same place. This project will investigate the multiple effects of a decrease in annual precipitation in desert grassland in California where burrowing, seed-eating mammals strongly affect soil nutrients, soil moisture, and seed dispersal by plants, and where introduced plant species compete with native ones. Researchers will exclude mammals, intercept or add rainfall, and measure effects on populations of mammals, plants, and invertebrates and on nutrient levels over four years. This unusual opportunity to experimentally test multiple, complex effects of climate in a natural system will advance our basic understanding of the ecological consequences of climate change.
The broader impacts of this project include development of the workforce for science likely including underrepresented groups, outreach to the public, and applications to the conservation of biodiversity and the management of natural areas. The project will train a postdoctoral researcher, a graduate student, and three research technicians. Work with two local organizations will promote public science education and volunteering. Findings will inform management of the Carrizo Plain, the last major remnant of a major type of grassland in California and a refuge for endangered species.
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0.955 |
2017 — 2022 |
Prugh, Laura |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Career: Integrating Positive and Negative Interactions in Carnivore Community Ecology @ University of Washington
Large carnivores are key components of ecosystems, but the ability of scientists to predict their cascading effects on the abundance and behavior of other species remains alarmingly poor. Large carnivores can reduce populations of smaller carnivore species through killing and intimidation, but large carnivores may also benefit some smaller carnivore species by providing them with easy meals in the form of carrion left on carcasses of animals killed by large carnivores. An improved understanding of the role of large carnivores in ecosystems is critical, because rapidly changing carnivore distributions are creating unprecedented challenges to societies worldwide. This study will examine positive and negative relationships among carnivore species in an integrated framework, providing new insights that will improve carnivore conservation and management in a changing world. This research will be incorporated into a wildlife course with 150 students per year by creating new inquiry-based labs using photos from carcass sites. In addition, this study will involve Alaska Native students in field and lab research in partnership with the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, and video vignettes about carnivore ecology will be created in partnership with Symbio Studios to reach 2 million K-12 students per year for 5-7 years.
This study will examine the movements and population dynamics of two common mesopredators, coyotes and bobcats, as part of a new collaborative study of wolves, cougars, deer, and elk in northern Washington. Wolves are naturally recolonizing Washington, creating a mosaic of variation in large carnivore presence. A powerful combination of animal-borne GPS and video tracking technology, stable isotope enrichment of carcasses, fecal genotyping, and cameras at kill sites will be used to jointly examine positive and negative relationships among carnivores. The researcher hypothesizes that scavenging is a critical yet overlooked factor determining mortality risk for mesopredators, creating hotspots of negative species interactions across the landscape. Carrion may thus present a "fatal attraction" whereby local-scale clustering of competing carnivores leads to landscape-scale suppression of subordinate mesopredators. Coyotes and bobcats will be used to test this hypothesis, because they differ strongly in their scavenging activity but are otherwise ecologically similar.
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