Research Proposals funded under the Department of Energy's predecessor program to NICCR, the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), that had continuing activity in FY 2006-2007 have been brought into the NICCR program through a supplemental funding award.

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Subcontract Project	Institution	Principal Investigator
An optimal merger of data and models for carbon sequestration assessment at Ameriflux sites	Duke University	John D. Albertson
Linking microbial activity and soil organic matter transformations in forest soils under elevated CO2	University of Kansas	Sharon A. Billings
Carbon isotopic studies of assimilated and ecosystem respired CO2 in a SE pine forest (joint with M. Conte)	Florida State University	Jeff Chanton
Carbon isotopic studies of assimilated and ecosystem respired CO2 in a SE pine forest (joint with J. Chanton)	Bermuda Biological Station for Research	Maureen Conte
Effects of climate change on multi-trophic interactions in agriculture and grasslands in the southwestern United States	Tulane University	Lee Dyer
Woody encroachment and carbon storage across regional gradients in precipitation and land use	Duke University	Robert B. Jackson
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 enrichment and N fertilization on extraradical and mycorrhizal fungi: Implications for carbon flow into southeastern forest soils	College of Charleston	Seth Pritchard
Radiative and hygroscopic properties of aerosols containing black carbon at various mixing states	University of Kentucky	Asit K. Ray
Changes in biodiversity under elevated CO2	University of South Florida	Peter Stiling
Laboratory investigation of mixing states and physical and optical properties of soot-containing aerosols	Texas A & M University	Renyi Zhang