Good buy for Biocomplexity.As part of its continuing Biocomplexity in the Environment grant effort, the National Science Foundation in October 2003 announced awards totaling $31.9 million for 30 science and engineering projects centered on better understanding biodiversity biodiversity: see biological diversity. biodiversity Quantity of plant and animal species found in a given environment. Sometimes habitat diversity (the variety of places where organisms live) and genetic diversity (the variety of traits expressed and the interrelationships among all living things Living Things may refer to:
adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct. interdisciplinary Adjective research, and the development and use of novel technologies for observing natural processes of all kinds and helping to sustain extant ex·tant adj. 1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts. 2. Archaic Standing out; projecting. species. Foundation director Rita Colwell said, "These investigations will provide a more complete understanding of natural processes and cycles, of human behaviors and decisions in the natural world, and of ways to use new technology effectively to observe the environment and sustain the diversity of life on Earth." |
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