OpportunityTitle: Creating Adaptation Strategies for Parks Using Enduring Features
CategoryExplanation: This is a Notice of Intent to Award, not a request for applications and no applications will be accepted under this announcement. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service&apos;s intention to fund this project without competition as a modification to an existing task agreement under an existing cooperative agreement with NatureServe(P15AC01330).
Description: Data on sensitivity and adaptive capacity was incorporated at the landscape scale using remote sensing data. But, the assessment needs ground-truthing, using the substantial fine scale data available from NCRN monitoring plots. This will provide park managers with explicitly-defined sensitivity to stressors by assessing ecological integrity, and with improved understanding of existing adaptive capacity measures that incorporate topographic complexity, local connectivity and forest patch size. The NCRN data will improve the modeling of forest response to larger landscape and regional scale exposures from stressors. We will use a spatial framework that assesses the systems ecological integrity over time and include other system stressors. The framework will use plot data from the parks&#8217; vegetation classification and maps (113 plant communities, grouped into 24 ecological systems) and also 15 years of NCRN and other eastern I&amp;M Networks monitoring data.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: This is a Notice of Intent to award ONLY.
GrantorContactText: LaQuita Palmer &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-619-7082
CloseDateExplanation: This is a Notice of Intent to Award, not a request for applications and no applications will be accepted under this announcement. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service&apos;s intention to fund this project without competition as a modification to an existing task agreement under an existing cooperative agreement with NatureServe(P15AC01330).