Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species
Information Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
I - ix
8/30/2004
Table 1. Invasive Species -- Widely held data types
Resources:
Expert Directories
Individual
Organization
Project
Species Information
Descriptions
Fact Sheets
Best Practices for Management
Specimens/Observations Datasets
Vouchered Specimens
Observations
Photos
Trace records: tracks, samples, etc.
Genomic sequence data
Document collections
[Physical Formats: Paper; Images PDF, etc.;
E-text]
References/Citations
Partial List of Types of Publications
(Relevant to invasives):
Alerts
Checklists
"Fact Sheets"
Field Guides
Keys
Leaflets
Maps
Methods Papers
Posters
Surveys/Inventories
Taxon Treatments(descriptions/revisions)
Manuscript collections
Field notes
Diaries
Lab notes
Table 2 – Invasive species data types, and candidate naming authorities (or controlled
vocabularies, or thesauri) for identifying them. From North American Invasive Species Hub
meeting, Davis, California, 2002
Data Type
Organization/Expert
URI
Dataset
Project catalog
Observation/specimen
Image
Document/Factsheet
ID materials
Bibliography
Educational materials
Subject
LCSH
UMLS (for model)
CSA/NBII
CERES
OECD
UNEP Infoterra
GEMET
ENVOC
IS-specific types
vectors
risk categories
control methods
Taxon
ITIS
GBIF
Sp2000
WHOI
FNA
Location
Getty
GNIS
FIPS
ISO stds
Alexandria
Counties
Hydrological Units
Habitat, Vegetation, Ecoregion
Bailey
Kuchler
National Vegetation
Organization Name
LOC (corporate names)
ISI, etc.
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