Grants

(~ total - $1,300,000)

2008 NSF, REU Supplemental grant. “Crab Herbivory and the Structure of Southwestern Atlantic Salt Marsh Plant Communities.” $14,200 B. R. Silliman.

2008 Florida Sea Grant, Newell Seminar Series Special Guest Lecturer – Dr. Peter Mumby. $1,750. B. R. Silliman.

2008 The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Think Tank Recurring Funding. Upto $10,000/ year. B. R. Silliman.

2007 Mellon Foundation, Young Investigator Grant, 'Impacts of grazer-facilitated plant disease and physical stress on the structure of plant-dominated coastalecosystems' Pending Trustee Approval, $312,000.

2007 SEAGEP, University of Florida, 'Impacts of sea-level rise, community die-off, of bioengineering on marsh accretion rates.' $50,000. B. R. Silliman and MatthewKirwin.

2007 SEAGEP, University of Florida, 'Genetic Connectivty of Caribbean intertidalcommunities.' $50,000. B. R. Silliman and Edgardo Diaz-Ferguson.

2007 SEAGEP, University of Florida, 'Crab mediation of plant competition in SouthAmerican marshes.' $50,000. B. R. Silliman and P. Daleo.

2006 NSF, LTER panel, 'Coastal Landscapes and Climate Change.' Georgia Coast Reserve-Long Term Ecological Research Site. 6,200,000. S. Pennings and 8 other co-PIs including B. Silliman (proportion of grant received $138,540).

2006 Danish National Science Foundation. Gracilaria vermiculophylla: a new threat to marine ecosystems. $69,250. Thomsen, M. D. and B. R. Silliman.

2006 SEAGEP, University of Florida, 'Global warming, disease and grazer impacts in coastal marshes.' $20,000. Blomn, G. and B. R. Silliman.

2006 NSF, Ecology, 'Collaborative Research: Crab Herbivory and the Structure of Southwestern Atlantic Salt Marsh Plant Communities.' $260,000. Bertness, M. D. and B. R. Silliman (proportion of grant received $100,000).

2005 Danish National Science Foundation. Gracilaria vermiculophylla: a new threat to marine ecosystems. $53,330. Thomsen, M. D. and B. R. Silliman.

2005 University of Florida, Opportunity Fund Grant, 'Top-down control in Argentine Marsh Plant Communities.' $30,700. Silliman, B.R.

2004 The Nature Conservancy, ' Do consumers and drought stress interact to cause die off of southern salt marshes? $120,000. Silliman, B. R.

2004 Georgia Sea Grant, 'Top-down and bottom-up forces interact to cause massive die-off of southern salt marshes.' $121,385. Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness.

2002 NSF, Dissertation Improvement Grant, Division of Environmental Biology, 'A mechanistic understanding of periwinkle grazing on and control of live Spartina alterniflora: implications for top-down control of community structure in southern salt marshes.' $4,125. Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness.

2000 NSF, Biological Oceanography, 'Top-down control of primary production in East Coast Salt Marshes.' National Science Foundation: Biological Oceanography/Ecology $451,723. Bertness, M. D. and B. R. Silliman.

2000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 'Relative effects of predation and Nitrogen enrichment on the community structure of New England salt marshes.' $80,000. Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness.

2000 Environmental Protection Agency, 'Top-down versus bottom-up control of community structure in New England salt marshes.' $102,000. Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness.

1997 New Jersey Sea Grant: Marsh Ecology Research Program. 'Grazing impacts of the coffee bean snail in New England salt marshes.' $15,000. Silliman, B. R. and M. D. Bertness.