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Links & tools on Discover Life

This following explains some of the major links and tools on Discover Life. Click on the blue links below to go to them.

• All living things -- for natural history information on the flora and fauna.
• Checklists -- for lists of species from Great Smoky Mountains National Park & elsewhere
• Conservation -- conservation information will appear here; currently links to an article that outlines conservation issues, focused on the Appalachians
• Education -- for training guides, research protocols, training teachers & students how to study biodiversity and put their findings on the Web.
• Events -- for ATBI & associated events
• Get Involved -- to enter data about yourself so that you can get involved
• Help -- for this page. Read the following "helps" before you use IDnature guides and other tools on Discover Life:
  • IDnature guides
  • Maps
• IDnature guides -- on-line identification guides to help you identify organisms
• Invasives -- information on invasive species
• Labels -- allows you to retrieve label information, input data, and make labels
• Links -- links to associated sites
• Maps -- allows you to build and display maps using the Polistes Global Map Browser, developed in partnership with Topozone.com, includes 1:1,000,000 scale maps of the world, topographic maps of the United States, and aerial photographs of 89% of the United States.
• Nature Days -- a program that we are developing to establish ecological study sites around the world
• Register -- register to become involved and receive information
• Report -- to report results use the "Report" tool in IDnature guide's banner
• Search -- search for participants, key words, and locate species by common and scientific names.
• Study sites -- plans & methods for study of Great Smokies & elsewhere.
• Who we are -- names & addresses, organizational structure, correspondence, events and travel information.

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Contact us

• Adding information to this Website:
  Denise Lim (dl@discoverlife.org); phone: 706-542-6676
• Logistical support in the Smokies & Coordination of volunteers:
  Jeanie Hilten (jeanie@discoverlife.org); phone: 865-430-4752.
  Also see www.discoverlifeinamerica.org.

Discover Life | All Living Things | Identification Guides | Help