National Biodiversity Observation Network
From pick@pick.uga.edu Tue Oct 6 13:00 EDT 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:17:06 -0400
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From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: GSMNP-ATBI + National Biodiversity Observation Network
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RE: Design of Great Smoky Mountains National Park All Taxa Biodiversity
Inventory
Peter White
NC State
Peter,
In your capacity as coordinator of the ATBI study design team, I suggest
that you and our other designers examine the final report linked to the
following URL:
http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/biodwrk98
and a related write-up in SCIENCE, 25 Sept., 1998, pg. 1935.
These concern a recent NSF sponsored workshop to consider funding a
National Biodiversity Observation Network The report is full of good ideas
that we should considered in designing the Great Smokies ATBI. I trust
that the ATBI's design will be a superset of an envisioned Biodiversity
Observatory, and hence, make the Park eligible to join this program should
it come to fruition.
We should work with the biodiversity community to develop the ATBI as a
foundation to help the biodiversity observatories choose focal taxa and
extrapolate their findings. Examining geographic variation and questions
of scale within the Park for a large set of taxa should help other sites
select focal taxa and interpret findings in a broader taxonomic context.
I'll contact Mike Bowers, who chaired the NSF workshop report, and Doug
Siegel-Causey, the NSF program officer, and copy this to other NSFers and
potentially interested parties.
Cheers,
Pick
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John Pickering
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2602
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