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APPENDIX: Current International and National Programs
Pages 45-48

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... relates to international global change initiatives and to current research programs by national agencies. Summarized here are the current activities of federal agencies in the USGCRP as they relate to the six questions specified in the report, indicating which agencies are addressing each question and the foci within Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE)
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... NSF NSF NSF HDP NASA USFS DOE EPA EPA NFS NASA USGS USFS FWS 4. Ecological Complexity USFS GCEC NASA NSF 5.
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... There has been substantial NSF funding for descriptive studies of how community structure has changed in the past in response to events such as El Nino, invasions, and successional development. NASA and EPA have also funded descriptive studies focusing on the current relationships between ecosystem processes and structure.
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... . At the national level, efforts to describe the biotic role in the hydrologic cycle have included studies funded and planned by NASA (e.g., First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Field Experiment, Boreal ExosystemAtmosphere Study)
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