Cellular Slime Molds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
Landolt JC, Cavender JC, Stephenson SL. 2004. Cellular Slime Molds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.. Systematics and Geography of Plants. 74(2):293-295
As one component of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) being carried out in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an ongoing survey of dictyostelid cellular slime molds has yielded a combination of previously reported species together with additional Park records as well as a number of species possibly new to science. As results from previous studies conducted elsewhere in the world have indicated, there appear to be assemblages consisting of particular species of dictyostelids characteristically associated with certain habitats. This certainly seems to be true in the Park. In many cases, the distribution pattern of a given species can be related to the differences that exist from place to place for such environmental parameters as elevation, soil pH and the overall moisture regime. In this paper, we report on the current status of the ATBI dictyostelid survey and discuss some of the more interesting and/or unusual species discovered thus far.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Landolt, John; Cavender, James; Stephenson, Steven
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, Dictyostelids, Ecology, Forests, GRSM-00087, slime molds