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Collaborative Research: LTREB Renewal: Feedbacks between evolution and demography in sever — NSF Award to Northwestern University

This project continues a long-term study of natural selection in the purple coneflower, Echinacea angustifolia. At the beginning of the 1800s, prairie covered a great swath of North America. Since then, about 99% of the tallgrass prairie has been destroyed. The small, isolated patches of prairie that remain harbor grea

Award titleCollaborative Research: LTREB Renewal: Feedbacks between evolution and demography in sever
Award ID2622240
AwardeeNorthwestern University at Chicago
CityEVANSTON
StateIL
Amount obligated$70,250
Principal investigatorStuart Wagenius
ProgramEvolutionary Processes
Start date04/01/2026
AbstractThis project continues a long-term study of natural selection in the purple coneflower, Echinacea angustifolia. At the beginning of the 1800s, prairie covered a great swath of North America. Since then, about 99% of the tallgrass prairie has been destroyed. The small, isolated patches of prairie that remain harbor great biodiversity, yet rates of local plant extinctions are alarmingly high in these remnant prairies. This project is advancing scientific understanding of why some populations go ex
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