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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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Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW)

URL: http://www.hear.org/gcw/alpha_select_gcw.htm

Host/Originating Country: U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) / USA.

Language: English

Description: Reviews the information in the publication entitled "A Global Compendium of Weeds" by Rod Randall

(Department of Agriculture of Western Australia [AgWest]). Contains references to approximately 20,000 taxa of plants,

citing information about "weedy" characteristics of each.

World Weeds Database

URL: http://w3.to/weeds (NOTE: non-functioning URL).

Host/Originating Country: Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford University, UK.

Language: English

Description: Displays information on more than 2400 weed species around the world, including non-native species, ranked

according to the severity of infestation. Users can view data by country, plant, genus, or family.

Mammal Species of the World

URL: http://nmnhwww.si.edu/msw/

Host/Originating Country: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Systematic Biology Vertebrate

Zoology / USA.

Language: English

Description: Contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, including invasive species, in a

taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus.

Non-USA Context - IAS Databases

IABIN – Invasives Information Network (I3N) (Americas)

URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_project.html

Host/Originating Country: National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), USA.

Language: English

Description: A regional network of invasive species knowledge bases, providing direct access to national knowledge bases

throughout the Americas. Includes a data search capability across all contributing countries, list of country catalogs, value-

added products, fact sheets, and presentations.

i) I3N - Project - Argentina (InBiAr)

URL: http://www.uns.edu.ar/inbiar/database.asp

Host/Originating Country: Base de Datos sobre Invasiones Biologicas en Argentina (InBiAr) /

Argentina.

Language: Spanish

Description: invasive species database.

ii) I3N - Project - Bahamas (Catalogs)

URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_bahamas.html

Description: Includes invasive species lists for all species, plants and animals, and a Pest List of

Ministry.

iii) I3N - Project - Bolivia (Catalo gs under development)

URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_bolivia.html

iv) I3N - Project – Brazil (I3NATCRIA)

URL: http://i3n.cria.org.br/

Host/Originating Country: Rede de Informacao sobre Especies Invasoras / Brazil.

Language: Portuguese

Description: Catalog of researchers, projects information sources and a list of invasive species.

v) I3N - Project – Chile (Catalogs under development)

URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_chile.html