Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species
Information Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Page 45
8/30/2004
Future Database Development
The development team would like to
increase the predictive value of the
database. It is currently used for vector
analysis and to analyze the origins of alien
species. A description of all of the Baltic
sub-regions in terms of salinity and
temperature will allow data to be easily
retrieved for species that for example, occur
in specific salinity and temperature ranges.
Information for invasion corridors and
species traits including salinity tolerance,
temperature tolerance,
and oxygen tolerance will also be added to
the database.
The international biological monitoring
system in the Baltic Sea region is quite well
developed. One of the future tasks will be to
link this system to the Baltic Sea Alien
Species database so that if someone finds
something unusual or different, they can
report it and information for that species can
be added into the database quickly.
A new project (the Nordic Baltic Network on
Invasive Species - NOBANIS) recently
launched by the Nordic Council of Ministers,
is included in plans for regional and pan-
European cooperation. The Global
Environment Facility (GEF) Baltic Sea
regional project, which includes an invasive
species element, has promised to support
some of the database’s development. The
European Union strategic research project
DAISIE also aims to Deliver Alien Invasive
Species Inventories for Europe. It is
important for this project to cooperate with
the GISIN and to be made aware of the
outcomes of this workshop.
Further development of the
Baltic Sea Alien Species
Database
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Increase predictive value of the Database by
Increase predictive value of the Database by
introducing new searchable features
introducing new searchable features
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Baltic sub-regions
(salinity and temperature
ranges, habitat availability, native flora and
fauna richness, available invasion corridors)
–
Species traits
(salinity, temperature, oxygen
tolerance, breeding season, fertility, etc.)
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Creation of new and revision of old individual
Creation of new and revision of old individual
species entries and sub-region descriptions
species entries and sub-region descriptions
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Linkage with the HELCOM biological
Linkage with the HELCOM biological
monitoring and abnormal event early warning
monitoring and abnormal event early warning
systems
systems
Pan-European Invasive Inventory
CEH Banchory, CEH Monks Wood & 17 European Partners
DAISIE
Inventory of Invasive Species
ALARM
Assessing large-scale risk
& hazards of invasions
Alter-Net
Use of LTER sites for
invasion monitoring
EU New Instruments
EPIDEMIE (FP5 RTD)
Mapping plant invasions
on Mediterranean islands
LEDA (FP5 RTD)
Plant traits of Northwest
Europe
BALLAST (FP4 CA)
Introductions by ships to
European waters
EU Funded Initiatives
Austria
Czech Republic
Eire, Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Switzerland
Slovenia, UK
National Atlases
National Data
15 EU States +
Czech Republic
Cyprus, Estonia
Israel, Lithuania
Malta, Norway
Poland, Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Baltic Sea Alien Species
Database
European Research
Network on Alien Invasive
Species
Nordic Invasive Species
Network
Global Invasive Species
Programme
Regional Networks
European Mammal
Database
Atlas of Amphibians and
Reptiles In Europe
Atlas of European
Breeding Birds
Atlas of Flora Europaea
Regional Atlases
European Environment
Agency
International Organisations
CBD
Clearing House Mechanism
A new EU Strategic Targeted Project that over the next 3 years will collate, analyse and
disseminate the first pan-European inventory of aquatic & terrestrial invasive species
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