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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8/30/2004
Host/Originating Country: A voluntary alliance of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), land-grant universities and other
agricultural organizations, in cooperation with citizen groups and government agencies. USA.
Language: English
Description: Search for; publications, references, and online databases related to exotic/ invasive species and agriculture.
183.
Host/Originating Country: Center for Invasive Plant Management in the Western United States, Department of Crop and
Soil Sciences, Cornell University / USA.
Language: English
Description: Lists ecological data and general weed management strategies for the most common and difficult to control
weed species in the state of New York. Includes weed descriptions, color photographs of weed life history stages, tips on
distinguishing the species from similar looking species, summaries of major control strategies, and statements about various
aspects of the species' ecology.
184.
Host/Originating Country: The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wildland Invasive Species Team / USA.
Language: English
Description: Links to all TNC resources specific to individual invasive species including invasive plant ESAs (Element
Stewardship Abstracts) written for The Nature Conservancy that summarize relevant aspects of an organism, including its
ecology and control. Also includes species management abstracts and cultivar notes on invasive species.
185.
Host/Originating Country: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences
Laboratory - Missoula, Montana / USA.
Language: English
Description: Literature reviews of botanical characteristics, life cycle, habitat, succession, distribution, impacts, fire ecology,
and fire effects for 1000 plant and animal species, including 67 non-native invasive species.
186.
Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
Host/Originating Country: North Carolina Botanical Garden; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USDA, APHIS /
USA.
Language: English
Description: Search for information on all vascular plants and vertebrate species (native, naturalized, and adventive) of the
United States and Canada.
187.
Host/Originating Country: Bishop Museum, The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Honolulu Hawaii / USA.
Language: English
Description: Lists taxonomic names and identifying authorities, collection dates, locations and references for 1141 taxa of
marine algae, invertebrates and fishes that have been collected or observed in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii since the first
biological observations were made in the harbor in 1866. Species considered to be introduced or cryptogenic (not verifiably
native or introduced) are so designated.
188.
Host/Originating Country: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Biological Control
Documentation Center (BCDC) / USA.
Language: English
Description: Contains collection, introduction, release, culture, establishment, recolonization, and impact of non-indigenous
organisms and pollinators on pests in the United States. Includes information on arthropods (insects, mites and ticks),
nematode and other invertebrate pests, weedy plants, and microbial (bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa) pests.
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