Great Smoky Mountains All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) Fungi
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Great Smoky Mountains All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) Fungi. 1998
In 1998, the Smokies began a park-wide biological inventory of all life forms; this project is referred to as an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, or ATBI. The goal of an ATBI is to determine what species live in the park, their distribution, and their ecological community. Scientists have discovered nearly 10,000 species that were not previously known from the park, and many of these (~1000) had never been seen anywhere in the world before-- they were new to science. The extraordinary diversity of this park led to the park’s designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. The ATBI in the Smokies is coordinated by our non-profit partner Discover Life in America, or DLIA. Together, the park and DLIA have made tremendous progress, and the ATBI has grown to become the largest sustained natural history inventory in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. This is a catch-all project for any Fungi sampling that do not fall into the other Fungi-related projects.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, Fungal, Fungi, GRSM