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Collaborative Research: Integrating modern and paleo perspectives to disentangle grazer an — NSF Award to Princeton University (NJ

Fire is an Earth system process with both vegetation and atmospheric feedbacks. Grass-fueled fires in savannas currently dominate global burned area, but grazers potentially eat enough grass to suppress fires at the landscape scale. How these processes affect global biogeochemical cycles is not quantitatively understoo

Award titleCollaborative Research: Integrating modern and paleo perspectives to disentangle grazer an
Award ID2547017
AwardeePrinceton University
CityPRINCETON
StateNJ
Amount obligated$364,804
Principal investigatorAnn Carla Staver
ProgramEcosystem Science
Start date10/01/2025
AbstractFire is an Earth system process with both vegetation and atmospheric feedbacks. Grass-fueled fires in savannas currently dominate global burned area, but grazers potentially eat enough grass to suppress fires at the landscape scale. How these processes affect global biogeochemical cycles is not quantitatively understood. This project combines present-day experiments and observations with paleoecological observations on the timescale of thousands of years. The project tests predictions about the
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