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Sponsored by
United States Department of State
National Biological Information Infrastructure
United States Geological Survey
In cooperation with
CAB International, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI), National Chemical Laboratory,
Chinese Academy of Sciences -- Zoology, Danish Forest and Nature Agency, Discover Life, Global
Invasive Species Programme (GISP), Information Center for the Environment -- University of
California at Davis, Information International Associates (IIa), Instituto Horus -- Brasil, Integrated
Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)
Invasives Information Network (I3N), Klaipeda University -- Lithuania, National Institute of Invasive
Species Science (NIISS), NISbase, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity,
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), World Conservation Union's Invasive
Species Specialist Group (IUCN-ISSG) -- New Zealand
Acknowledgements
The contributions of members of the organizing committee/planning team, participants in the Global
Invasive Species Information Network online community, respondents to the pre-meeting informational
surveys, and the workshop participants are gratefully acknowledged as is the direct financial support and
contributions provided by the sponsors and the substantial contributions provided by the cooperators.
Special appreciation is extended to (in alphabetical order) Andrea Grosse, Annie Simpson, Bill Gregg,
Bob Meese, Brian Steves, Catherine Crosier, Greg Sherley, Hannu Saarenmaa, Hans Svart, Jeff Fisher,
Jenn Foreman, Jim Quinn, John Pickering, Kathryn Johnson, Keng-Yeang Lum, Kobie Brand, Les
Mehrhoff, Liz Sellers, Lucie Rogo, Marcos Silva, Mark Fornwall, Michael Browne, Mike Ruggiero, Pam
Fuller, Philip Thomas, Rachel Muir, Richard Smith, Sergej Olenin, Shelaine Curd-Hetrick, Silvia Ziller,
Soetikno Sastroutomo, Tom Stohlgren, Vishwas Chavan, and Yan Xie. We apologize to those who
served but have been inadvertently omitted here.
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Accessed: [date] online at http://www.gisinetwork.org.
For individual papers (Example):
Sellers, E., Databasing Invasions: A Review in the Context of the Global Invasive Species Information
Network (GISIN). pp 9–14. In: Sellers, E., Simpson, A., Fisher, J.P., S. Curd-Hetrick, editors. 2004.
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