• The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a project of Discover Life in America (DLIA), seeks to inventory the estimated 100,000 species of living organisms in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  
  
• The project will develop checklists, reports, maps, databases, and natural history profiles that describe the biology of this rich landscape to a wide audience.
  
  
• The species level of biological diversity is central to the ATBI, but the project is developed within an ecological and conservation context and encourages understanding at other levels of organization, including genetic variation within species and ecosystem descriptions.

Scientists and volunteers sort and catalogue moths and butterflies during the 2004 Lepidoptera Bio-Quest.

Photo by Jeanie Hilten.

• Inventory the estimated 100,000 species of living organisms in the Park
• Develop data and natural history profiles describing the biology of the Park.

• Species new to science are ones that have never been formally identified and described.
• New records to the Park are species that were previously known to science but until now had not been found in the Smokies.

• The ATBI Quarterly Newsletter focuses on scientific research.
• ATBI Quarterly newsletters are available in .pdf format.

• Conduct research using a wide variety of field methods including Bio-Quests and Fern Forays.
• “Pilot Study” established 19 plots one hectare in size.

• Organizes the efforts of scientists working with various taxa.
• Composition based on taxonomic order or combined into broader groups.

• Scientists participating in the ATBI present their findings at various conferences.

• Scientific publications related to the ATBI.

• Other parks conducting ATBIs.
• ATBI researchers' web sites.
• Volunteers' web sites.