Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species Information
Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Appendix C
Draft List of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Online Databases and Databases
Containing IAS Information.
Elizabeth Sellers, Annie Simpson, Shelaine Curd-Hetrick, Invasive Species Information Node, National Biological Information Infrastructure,
United States Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 302, Reston VA 20192. (703) 648-4385. esellersATusgs.gov.
A preliminary draft document, prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global
Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 6-8 April 2004. It will be available
online at http://www.invasivespecies.net/gisin.htm .
- DRAFT -
List of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Online Databases
and Databases Containing IAS Information
A preliminary draft document, prepared for the
Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a
Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN),
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
6-8 April 2004
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST:
This document contains a list of Internet-accessible databases providing species, bibliographic,
taxonomic, expertise, distributions, images and many other information types as they pertain to
invasive, exotic, alien, introduced, non-native species and all other species of world flora and fauna.
NOTE: Information contained within this document is planned for future cataloguing. Databases are
listed in no specific order or priority with the exception of the numbering and arrangement of databases
into basic groups. This list of databases and related information is by no means intended to be
comprehensive. If there is a database or information about a database that you feel should be included
in this list, please do not hesitate to email Elizabeth Sellers at esellersATusgs.gov.
*** Additions incorporated after the 2004 Experts Meeting are highlighted with asterisks ***
Global Context - IAS Databases
1.
Host/Originating Country: Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) / New Zealand; National Biological Information
Infrastructure (NBII) / USA.
Language: English
Description: Provides global information on alien invasive species to agencies, resource managers, decision-makers, and
interested individuals. Information is supplied by expert contributors from around the world and includes all types of species.
Data includes species ecology, distribution (native and alien ranges), impacts, general and management references, links,
and expert contacts.
2.
Host/Originating Country: Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) / New Zealand; National Biological Information
Infrastructure (NBII) / USA.
Language: English
Description: Species listing of information about 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species.
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