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Peter Kotanen

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ProfessorDepartment of BiologyUniversity of Toronto

Peter Kotanen

Professor

Department of Biology

University of Toronto Mississauga

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 NSERC), most recently in 2022.

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Latest funding

Understanding limitations to invasions by non-native plants at high latitudes
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$99,000
Understanding limitations to invasions by non-native plants at high latitudes
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$39,000
Exchanges of enemies between native and non-native plants
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$168,000

All 10 grants and awards

Understanding limitations to invasions by non-native plants at high latitudes

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

Keywords: biological invasions; non-native plants; range limits; marginal populations; northern ecosystems; subarctic/arctic ecology; herbivory; biotic resistance; soil feedback; global change

$99,000

Understanding limitations to invasions by non-native plants at high latitudes

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Northern Research Supplement

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

Keywords: biological invasions; non-native plants; range limits; marginal populations; northern ecosystems; subarctic/arctic ecology; herbivory; biotic resistance; soil feedback; global change

$39,000

Exchanges of enemies between native and non-native plants

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$168,000

Growth Chambers for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Plant Biology

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Johnson, Marc

$150,000

Interactions between non-native plants and their natural enemies in core and marginal populations

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$190,000

Biotic interactions and invasions by non-native plants

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$124,000

Elemental analysis of plants, soils and invertebrates

Co-investigatorNSERC2002Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Jefferies, Robert

$55,000

Control of woody plants by seed predators and pathogens in temperate forest gaps

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$110,000

Germinator chamber for studies of seed biology

Principal investigatorNSERC1999Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$27,762

Comparative ecology of plant invasions: an experimental approach

Principal investigatorNSERC1997Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kotanen, Peter

$88,200

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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