What is an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory? For details, scroll down to the bottom of this page and see the links to the All Taxa Biodiv. Inventory of the Great Smokey Mtn. National Park. What's a Beetle Blitz? See the link below to the Aquatic beetle page! We designed this page initially on March 26,2008. As we design this section of the webpage, our efforts will start small. We're actively expanding it, concentrating on Buffalo National River documented species. But when info on those species is not readily available, we're providing links to other websites with info on Arkansas species.
For convenience, at the moment we list taxa in the order pulled from the Great Smokey Mountain All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. Most web sites are almost always "under construction" and this one is definitely not an exception. Here are links to list of species for the Buffalo National River, and in addition lists of websites listing and/or discussing other Arkansas species. We will work on the sequence and duplication within this list!
Some orphans and info about other orphans below.
We need data on Arkansas and/ or Buffalo National River sites for the following groups: Annelida (worms and leaches), Hirudinea (Freshwater leeches), Oligochaeta (True-segmented worms), Polychaeta (Freshwater worms), and any other "orphan" groups below without attached websites. If you know of a website, let Sedgehead know at sedgehead2008 - at - sedgehead dot com (written this way to discourage digital webworms from spamming me)!
Arthropoda (Mites, Spiders, Springtails,Insects)
Arachnida (Mites,Spiders), Collembola (Springtails) are orphans.
Insecta (Insects)
Chordata (Fish, Amphibians, Birds,Mammals, Reptiles)
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes), Amphibia (Amphibians), and Cephalaspidomorphi (Lampreys) are all orphans because we've not looked hard enough for websites for all taxa, or for Buffalo National River lists, which surely exist. Someone will bring them to our attention!
Aves (Birds)
Checklist of birds of the Buffalo National River in a pdf format
Mammalia (Mammals)
Checklist of mammals of the Buffalo National River in a pdf format
Reptilia (Reptiles)
Snakes of Arkansas website.
Lizards of Arkansas within the Snakes of Arkansas website.
More orphans, so let us know if you find related Arkansas or Buffalo National River websites. Meanwhile, we will keep looking. We've not searched for most of these yet.
Mollusca (Snails, Slugs), Gastropoda (Snails, Slugs), Tardigrada (Tardigrades), Eutardigrada, Heterotardigrada.
Lichens
More orphans
Fungi, Ascomycota, Ascomycetes, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycetes , Sordariomycetes, Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Pucciniomycetes, Tremellomycetes, Deuteromycota, Deuteromycetes, Zygomycota, Zygomycetes.
Plantae (Plants)
Arkansas Flora Project, the folks who are writing a field guide to Arkansas' vascular plants.
Smith's 1988 Atlas of Arkansas plants.
Even more orphans.
Yea, we know. Hey, this project just started! Give us a break! We need to format the names listed below for these orphans and search for websites! Anthocerotophyta (Hornworts) Anthocerotopsida Bryophyta (Mosses) Andreaeopsida (Granite mosses) Bryopsida (True mosses) Sphagnopsida (Peat mosses) Hepatophyta (Liverworts) Hepatopsida
Orphans, or not!, we're working on organization but its not done yet. Please excuse the incompleteness!
Coniferophyta (Conifers) Pinopsida Equisetophyta (Horsetails) Equisetopsida
Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Checklist of the spring flowering plants of the Buffalo National River
Checklist of the trees and shrubs of the Buffalo National River
Carex sedge page! provides a list species we have previously studied, sedges in the genus Carex of the Buffalo National River.
Sedges of Arkansas, our series of pages related to Arkansas sedges, as well as how we financially support this effort!
Orphanless orphans
Ok, these are not orphans, they are covered by other websites above. We're saving the typed names for when we organize this site. Liliopsida (Monocotyledons) Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons) Wildflowers Pteridophyta (Ferns) Filicopsida
Protozoa
Hmmmm. We will have to think about Myxomycota, Protozoa, and Myxomycetes.
Eventually we hope to support a list of species known and published for the Buffalo National River. We may tackle the entire Sylamore District or at least the Leatherwood Wilderness Area. If you are interested in assisting in this effort, please contact us. How? You know who we are! Just search for "sedgehead" on the internet or look in the Sedgehead Store for contact info. Even the limited info there will be updated soon. In our new webdesign were trying to make most pages fit onto your computer screen. Exceptions will be details requiring long sections of text such as our Arkansas Carex list page or pages like this one where we're in too much of a hurry to post to worry with ALL the details! Enjoy! And for more ATBI info, come back soon as we do expect to update THIS WEEK.
Discover Life in America, a non-profit organization supports and coordinates the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We envision a similar Arkansas organization who's purpose will be to create and manage an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory for the Buffalo National River and the adjoining Leatherwood Wilderness on the Sylamore District of the Ozark National Forest.
What is an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory? Our All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory will seek to inventory the tens of thousands of species of living organisms in Buffalo National River and the adjoining Leatherwood Wilderness.
Links (copied from link page on March 26, 2008).
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