Primary Recipient

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS

Amount

$165,085.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

One of the major unanswered patterns in ecology is the latitudinal gradient of species diversity from the tropics to the poles. This project will develop a comprehensive explanation for this and related patterns in the distribution and abundance of plants