[APWG] FUNDING: Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Mar 25 12:37:41 CDT 2008
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/InvasiveSpecies/preism.htm
Under the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species
Management (PREISM), ERS conducts intramural research and funds extramural
research to support the economic basis of decisionmaking concerning
invasive species issues, policies, and programs. PREISM focuses on
economic issues related to invasive species of agricultural significance
or other pests that fall under USDA programs. These include exotic pests
of crop, forest, and range land (such as insects, weeds, and
disease-causing pathogens), and foreign livestock, poultry, and zoonotic
diseases (transmittable between animals and humans), but also exotic pests
and foreign diseases affecting public lands, ecosystems, and urban
systems. USDA programs that address invasive species relate to exclusion,
detection, monitoring, eradication, control, and restoration, and their
domestic and international components.
Funding for competitive awards in fiscal 2008 is approximately $750,000.
The deadline for submitting proposals is April 25, 2008.
See the link above for information on the priority research areas and
application requirements for 2008.
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