The National Center on Accessibility sponsored this study to identify the perceptions and attitudes of people with physical disabilities toward their experiences related to physical accessibility in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed to individuals with disabilities onsite. Of these questionnaires, 122 completed and usable questionnaires were...

Question: Can a new cost-distance model help us to evaluate the potential for accessibility bias in ecological observations? Howmuch accessibility bias is present in the vegetation monitoring plots accumulated over the last three decades in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee, USA. Methods: Distance, slope, stream cros...

Francesco Rovero* and Andrew R. Marshall Sezione di Biodiversità Tropicale, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Via Calepina 14, 38122, Trento, Italy; Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, c ⁄o Udzungwa Mountains National Park, PO Box 99, Mang’ula, Tanzania; Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK; and Flamingo Land, Kirby Misperton, Malton, North Yorkshire ...

An integrated sequence of multivariate techniques was applied to the vegetation of the western Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Included in the sequence were hierarchial classification, detrended correspondence analysis and multiple discriminant analysis. Based on the importance of landform in previous research, a system of topographical quantification was developed and also used in the cla...

a Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Via Calepina 14, 38122 Trento, Italy Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, c/o Udzungwa Mountains National Park, P.O. Box 99, Mang’ula, Tanzania Department of Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3073, Morogoro, Tanzania Centre for Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiks...

Three new species of oribatid mites of the genus Plonaphacarus, Plonaphacarus sidorchukae sp. nov., Plonaphacarus rybalovi sp. nov. and Plonaphacarus hamulus sp. nov., are described from Bale Mountains National Park (Afrotropical region, Ethiopia). Morphological and taxonomical remarks about Steganacarus (Steganacarus) sol and Steganacarus (Steganacarus) vestitus are presented.