BioBlitz! 2011, October 14-15

Chickasaw National Recreation Area

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Record setting attendance and wonderful weather contributed to the success of this year's BioBlitz! Oklahoma. 333 citizen scientists and expert biologists scoured the drought stricken park to find over 880 species, from microscopic diatoms to the tracks of a black bear! The extra dry summer contributed to very low numbers of plants and aquatic invertebrates. Yet, we were able to find the virile crayfish - the species depicted in our 2011 logo! The bird, mammal, and fish counts were near average and, of course, the terrestrial invertebrates nearly doubled the count.

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Taxa	Number of Species
Mammals	18
Birds	93
Amphibians & Reptiles	18
Fish	18
Aquatic invertebrates	26
Terrestrial invertebrates	still counting!
-- Odonata	29
-- Lepidoptera	72
Fungi	19
Diatoms & Algae	97
Vascular Plants	190
Lichens	21
GRAND TOTAL	877 +/-

Chickasaw NRA Website

BioBlitz! is a project of the Oklahoma Biological Survey and the University of Oklahoma. For more information contact the BioBlitz! Committee at prill@ou.edu or 405-325-7658.