Terrestrial Arthropod Inventories for the Alaska NWRS 2013

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Headquarters Region 7 intends to award a single source financial assistance agreement as authorized by 505 DM 2.14.B to University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks. This notice is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to accept proposals. Award will be made 5 days after this notice. This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, CESUs Network. The CESUs network provides research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. The partners serve the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. This project will conduct inventories to document the biodiversity of terrestrial arthropods on Alaska National Wildlife Refuges. Arthropod samples will be collected by Refuge Inventory and Monitoring staff in conjunction with vegetation surveys to provide a better understanding of basic community structure and to establish a baseline with which to monitor the effects of climate change and other stressors on pristine communities.