All-taxa biodiversity inventory

An all-taxa biodiversity inventory, or ATBI, is an attempt to document and identify all biological species living in some defined area, usually a park, reserve, or research area. An all-taxa biodiversity inventory, or ATBI, is an attempt to document and identify all biological species living in some defined area, usually a park, reserve, or research area. The first use of the term appears to have been in 1993, in connection with an effort initiated by ecologist Daniel Janzen to document the diversity of the Guanacaste National Park in Costa Rica. An ATBI focusing on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of the southeastern United States, called Discover Life in America, is one of the most active and may be one of the most thorough to date.