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The Yellowcheek darter (YCD), Nothonotus moorei (Robison and Buchanan 2020), is endemic to the headwater tributaries (a.k.a. ‘forks’) of Little Red River system (South Fork, SF; Middle Fork, MF; Archey Fork, AF; and Beech Fork, BF) in north central Arkansas. Large portions of critical stream habitat in each stream fork were inundated in 1964 with the construction of Greers Ferry Dam, and the YCD is now restricted to relatively short, free-flowing stretches of each fork upstream of the dam. YCD were once reported as the most abundant riffle species in these headwater tributaries (Robison and Harp 1981), however, multiple status surveys and collection efforts in the decades since dam construction have documented a...
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Archery Fork,
Arkansas,
Ecology,
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Greers Ferry Lake,
Little Red River,
Middle Fork,
South Fork,
Turkey/Beech/Devils Fork,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Quality,
Yellowcheek Darter,
biota,
stream habitat,
water quality, Fewer tags
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