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Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Department of the InteriorGeological Survey

AI Overview

Riparian plant research exploring how hydropower dam operations along the Colorado River affect native and invasive plant species. This study combines controlled experiments and existing monitoring data to understand which plants thrive or struggle under daily flow fluctuations, helping inform dam management strategies that could improve riverside vegetation conditions.

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Key Details

Agency
Department of the Interior
Funding Amount
$1 – $400,000
Release Date
December 12, 2025
Due Date
January 13, 2026 (Closed)

Official Description

The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for conducting riparian plant physiological experiments and a synthesis of existing data to evaluate how plant interactions are mediated by dam operations by using species occurring along the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead (the Colorado River ecosystem, CRe) and historic data that includes ground-based monitoring data of riparian vegetation along the Colorado River in Arizona and broad-scale regional datasets. Bot...

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