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Great Smoky Mountains All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) Plot Vegetation Monitoring Database
These data encompass all of the vegetation inventory data collected by GRSM Inventory and Monitoring staff from 1998 to 2002. Protocols for these plots mostly follow Jenkins... -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Cades Cove White-tailed Deer Monitoring (Spotlight Survey)
Nighttime roadside spotlight counts of white-tailed deer in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park American Holly Monitoring
The data is from a multi-year study of the impact of an unidentified defoliator. Collected data include: diameter, height, crown class, percent live crown ratio, percent crown... -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Elk Management Database
Elk capture and mortality data.Database that houses all elk management information including: captures, releases, management reports, and aversive conditioning. -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rhododendron Monitoring Database
Data is an MS Access database of tables of in the field health evaluation of rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) at one location that has a history of rhododendron decline. -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Stehn Plots: Overstory, Shrubs, Seedlings, Herbaceous plants, Bryophytes, Soil
This dataset results from systematic sampling on 60 randomly selected plots within the spruce-fir zone of GRSM. Researchers recorded the frequency and cover of 97 bryophyte... -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Noland Divide Water Quality
Based on studies in the 1980s linking stream water quality (acidification) and atmospheric acid deposition, the GRSM initiated a long-term continuous water quality monitoring... -
Vascular Plant and Lichen Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Researchers are conducting watershed by watershed surveys for lichens and vascular plants in the park, especially to note locations of new and rare species. In 1999, this team... -
Continuing Inventory of the Aquatic Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Through 2008, 30 species of aquatic oligochaetes representing at least 4 families and 15 genera have been documented from aquatic habitats in the park, all representing new park... -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park American Beech Monitoring
This database includes ratings of branch dieback, defoliation, beech scale and presence of Nectria spp. on high elevation American beech at least 3.5 cm in diameter in ten 20m x... -
A Survey of Post-Fire Ascomycete and Basidiomycete Fungi in an Eastern Deciduous Forest.
Fruiting bodies (mushrooms) will be collected, photographed, described, dried and accessioned into TENN-Fu (University of Tennessee Herbarium). Collection data will be... -
Fine-scale Genetic Structure in the Desmognathus quadramaculatus-marmoratus Complex.
Field Methods: I will sample salamanders at five locations within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Collections will take place during June 2015. D. quadramaculatus and D.... -
Genetic Characterization of Feral Swine in Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Field Methods: As a component of feral swine control measures conducted by National Park Service employees within Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I would request that either... -
Bird Genoscape Project - Mapping the Flyways of the Birds of North America.
Field Methods: Birds will be captured via passive mist netting as well as by using target taxa song playbacks. The use of species-specific song playbacks will reduce the... -
Elk camera trapping in GRSM near Fines Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Summary of proposed field methods and activities: With the assistance of Kim Delozier from Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, we will set 3-4 Reconyx Camera Traps on the ridges... -
Long-term trends in the avifauna of the southern Appalachians: disentangling climate change from habitat change - Dataset
Field Methods: The proposed research will address the following questions: Q1. What is the frequency, volume, and orientation of LWD in GSMNP streams? Q2. What is the relative... -
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Balsam Woolly Adelgid Monitoring
Annual monitoring of tagged Fraser fir trees on four mountain tops- Clingmans Dome, Balsam Mountain Road, Mt Sterling, and Mt LeConte- for density of non-native balsam woolly... -
Viral impacts on fluvial and limnetic systems
Collection of the following specimens or materials, quantities, and any limitations on collecting: 20 L whole water samples will be collected every 2-4 weeks from our site on... -
How do Plant-Microbial Interactions Influence Plasticity Under Novel Temperature Conditions?
Field Methods: We propose to explore the effects of plant-microbial interactions on plasticity in flowering time and growth of populations from a broad latitudinal gradient. We... -
Ultrasonic Acoustics of the Federally Endangered Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel in GSMNP.
Field Methods: To determine distribution and habitat occupancy of Carolina Northern Flying Squirrels (CNFS) with GSMNP, I will randomly place detectors in high-elevation...