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Installation of the rainfall exclusion experiment at the KBS LTER, one of the new treatments added to the experiment in 2021.

January 10, 2023

MSU's Long-Term Ecological Research program awarded $7.65 million NSF grant

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Earth and Environmental Sciences, IBIO, KBS-LTER, NSF LTER, agricultural systems, eeb, ees, long-term data collection, plant biology

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research program at Michigan State University was awarded a renewal of their foundational grant, reaffirming the program’s future and status as one of the country’s premier research sites. Continuation funding for the program began on Dec. 1, 2022 and will run through November 2028. MSU animal ecologist Nick Haddad and microbial ecologist Sarah Evans led the grant proposal, “Ecological and social mechanisms of resilience in agroecosystems.” In it, they detail the program’s new focus on climate change and land use change.