owady: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains and part of the Appalachian temperate rainforest, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including Kuwohi, Mount Guyot, and Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. With over 11 million visitors in 2025…

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Shenandoah National Park (, often ) is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east. Skyline Drive is the main park road, generally traversing along the ridgeline of the mountains. Almost 40% of the park's land—79,579 acres (124 sq mi; 322 km2)—has been designated as wilderness areas and is protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest peak is Hawksbill Mountain at 4,051 feet (1,235 m).

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Diversity and Ecology of Thrips (Thysanoptera, Insecta) Assemblages in Słowiński National Park-A Biosphere Reserve on the Baltic Coast (Northern Poland).. Słowiński National Park is one of the 23 national parks in Poland and one of the two situated on the Baltic Coast in the country. It was established in 1967 to protect the most valuable ecosystems: coastal lakes, marshes, peat bogs, meadows, forests, and, above all, the dune belt of the Łebska Spit with its unique moving dunes. We aimed to 1. determine the species diversity and structure of thrips assemblages in the most important biotopes of the Park; 2. determine the geographical distribution and food preferences of thrips species; and…

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The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest is an ecoregion of the temperate coniferous forest biome, a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. The ecoregion is the highest and coldest forest type in the southern Appalachian range, thriving in elevations above 5,500 feet (1,700 m) where the climate is too harsh to support the broad-leaved hardwood forest that dominates the region's lower elevations. A relict of the last Ice Age, this forest type covers just over 100 square miles (260 km2) and is considered to be among the most endangered ecosystems in the United States. Southern spruce–fir stan…

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KEYS TO IDENTIFY THE MORE THAN 900 LICHENS AND ALLIED FUNGI OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

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Leptolyngbya species from selected seep walls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK:

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BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

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LICHENS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

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This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Tennessee. Unless otherwise noted, this list is based on one published in April 2020 by the Great Smoky Mountains Association (GSMA) with the National Park Service (NPS). The list contains 250 species. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 66th Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the…

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The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States. The range takes its name from the dark appearance of the red spruce and Fraser fir trees that form a spruce-fir forest on the upper slopes which contrasts with the brown (during winter) or lighter green (during the growing season) appearance of the deciduous trees at lower elevations. The Eastern Continental Divide, which runs along the eastern Blue Ridge crest, intersects the southern tip of the Black Mountain range. The Black Mountain…

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How Large, Decayed, and Moist Must Rotting Logs Be to Act as Thermally Buffered Microhabitats in Temperate Eastern United States Forests?. Deadwood is an essential habitat for forest biodiversity, yet coarse woody debris (CWD) is declining owing to silvicultural practices that impede recruitment (e.g., clearcutting, short logging rotations), and/or forest sanitization that prevents retention (e.g., removal of "waste wood"). Furthermore, connections among studies examining the ecological roles of CWD as potential refugia for saproxylic organisms susceptible to heat and desiccation, or cold, have been hampered by inconsistent thresholds used to define "large-diameter" logs. Here we measured t…