Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NPS.gov website, viewed December 21, 2020).
Contents
1. Introduction. 1.1. Purpose of this document -- 1.2. Relationship to the Appalachian Highlands Network (APHN) VITAL Signs Monitoring Plan (2005) -- 1.3. Policy and legal mandates for monitoring -- 1.4. Goals and objectives -- 1.5. Background of monitoring at Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- 1.6. Description of park natural resources and drivers of the ecosystem -- 1.7. Overview of major stressors -- 2. Conceptual modeling -- 3. Vital signs. 3.1. GRSM process for vital sign identification and prioritization -- 3.2. Development of conceptual models for ecological processes -- 3.3. Organizing candidate vital signs -- 3.4. Ranking of vital signs -- 4. Sampling design. 4.1. Monitoring ecological linkages -- 4.2. The rest of the park, surveillance for large changes -- 4.3. Other monitoring in the park -- 5. Sampling protocols -- 6. Data management and archiving. 6.1. GRSM data management goals -- 6.2. Data management roles and responsibilities -- 6.3. Project work flow and the data management process -- 6.4. Data management resources -- 6.5. Data acquisition and processing -- 6.6. Quality assurance and quality control -- 6.7. Data documentation -- 6.8. Data dissemination -- 6.9. Data maintenance, storage, and archiving -- 7. Data analysis and reporting. 7.1. Analysis of monitoring data -- 7.2. Communications and reporting -- 8. Administration/implementation of the monitoring program -- 9. Schedule -- 10. Budget -- 11. Literature cited.
