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    • Great Smoky Mountains National Park Elk Forage Offtake Sampling

    Metadata Updated: June 4, 2024

    Many factors combine to determine how much vegetation consumption can occur before a habitat is no longer sustainable. These factors include species composition, season of use, intensity of use, and prior grazing history. In semiarid systems, when grazed versus ungrazed plots were compared, grazed plots had a mean consumption rate of aboveground net primary production (ANPP) of 35 percent. The Forage Offtake Sampling project measures the carrying capacity for elk on the landscape with the goal of ensuring that the habitat remains sustainable in terms of the health of the vegetation and grazing ungulates. The “habitat sustainability threshold” is the amount of forage that must remain ungrazed and maintaining this threshold promotes habitat sustainability by not allowing all vegetation production to be consumed by ungulates.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2268416

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024

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    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
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    Identifier NPS_DataStore_2268416
    Data First Published 2020-01-11T12:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2020-01-11
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
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    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2268416
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 010:118, 010:119
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > National Park Service
    Related Documents https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2268416
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