Generously sponsored by the Alberta Conservation Association and the Alberta Cooperative Conservation Research Unit
The ACA Grants in Biodiversity program is funded by the Alberta Conservation Association and operated through the Alberta Cooperative Conservation Research Unit – a partnership between the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge. With this year’s awards, the 18 year old ACA Grants in Biodiversity has now awarded over $3.8 million dollars to 383 researchers. The research supported by the ACA Grants in Biodiversity ultimately aims to conserve, protect and enhance Alberta's fish, wildlife and natural habitats.
April 2, 2012 – The projects funded by this year’s ACA Grants in Biodiversity are as wide and varied as the complex environments found across Alberta. The projects include studies on aggressive crickets, ferruginous hawks, Alberta shallow lakes, mountain pine beetles, elk behaviour, forest development, the sex life of flowers, and the effects of metals on songbirds in the oil sands. Although Alberta based universities took the majority of the awards, this year the body of knowledge about Alberta’s biodiversity will also benefit from projects being conducted out of Queen’s University and the University of Northern British Columbia.
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