FAR-SAIN Share Aquatic Resources Content

Southern Appalachian Information Node

The Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (FAR) Node recently unveiled a new Aquatic Invertebrates section on the FAR portal Web site that provides access to information on annelids, arthropods, cnidarians, ctenophores, echinoderms, flatworms, mollusks, ribbon worms, and sponges. Some of the portlets developed by FAR for its aquatic Organisms pages have been utilized on the Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN) Web site: Aquatic Invertebrates as Indicator Species, OneFish directory, FishBase, North American Native Fishes Association, Leeches feature, Visit the Unio Gallery, and Photographs of Freshwater Invertebrates. In turn, the FAR site has incorporated SAIN portlets on Dragonflies & Damselflies, Mayflies, and Stoneflies. This fruitful FAR-SAIN collaboration has improved user access to valuable resources and has reduced the work load for both nodes.