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News Release 16-111
NSF awards $15.9 million to foster new understanding of biological systems on regional to continental scales
Macrosystems biology and early NEON science awards support predictive understanding of large-scale biological responses to climate, land-use change
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![NSF MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science researchers are studying tree genes to canopies.](/news/mmg/media/images/autumn tree canopy Superior National Forest USDA_f.jpg)
NSF MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science researchers are studying tree genes to canopies.
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![Pollinators and plants are the subject of a new MacroSystems Biology/Early NEON Science grant.](/news/mmg/media/images/hummingbird_penstemon_lg USFS_f.jpg)
Pollinators and plants are the subject of a new MacroSystems Biology/Early NEON Science grant.
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![Ecological variables and tick-borne diseases are among the new grant topics.](/news/mmg/media/images/blacklegged tick CDC_f.jpg)
Ecological variables and tick-borne diseases are among the new grant topics.
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![MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science investigators are tracking plants' flowering timing.](/news/mmg/media/images/phenology2_f_18708273-34b2-4de3-b7d2-66cc6873546d.jpg)
MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science investigators are tracking plants' flowering timing.
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![Mice-o-scapes--understanding small mammal ecology over the past 100 years--is another new project.](/news/mmg/media/images/PF2319 MMG mouse_f.jpg)
Mice-o-scapes--understanding small mammal ecology over the past 100 years--is another new project.
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![Aerial views of lawns in San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Phoenix, and Levittown, N.Y.](/news/mmg/media/images/MSB lawns_f.jpg)
Aerial views of lawns in San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Phoenix, and Levittown, N.Y.
Credit: N. Giner, Clark University
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