URL: http://www.issg.org/database and http://www.invasivespecies.net/database
Host/Originating Country: Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) / New Zealand; National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) / USA.
Language: English
Description: Provides global information on alien invasive species to agencies, resource managers, decision-makers, and interested individuals. Information is supplied by expert contributors from around the world and includes all types of species. Data includes species ecology, distribution (native and alien ranges), impacts, general and management references, links, and expert contacts.
URL: http://www.issg.org/database/species/search.asp?st=100ss&fr=1&sts=
Host/Originating Country: Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) / New Zealand; National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) / USA.
Language: English
Description: Species listing of information about 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species.
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.
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.
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 (Catalogs under development)
URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_bolivia.html
iv. http://i3n.cria.org.br/
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
vi. I3N- Project - Dominican Republic (Catalogs)
URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_dominicanrep.html
Description: XML files for each of 19 organizations (each containing projects, datasets, experts, and lists of species for that organization); I3N Cataloguer with species, experts, projects, data sets; metadata on species and projects associated with experts, a list of species, a list of institutions, photos and details about 4 invasive species and a questionnaire.
vii. I3N- Project - Ecuador (Proyecto I3N)
URL: http://www.ambiente.gov.ec/AMBIENTE/i3n2000/I3N.htm
Host/Originating Country: Ministerio del ambiente / Republic of Ecuador
Language: Spanish
Description: Lists of research organizations and associated xml pages. I3N catalogs include species metadata.
viii. I3N- Project - El Salvador (Catalogs)
URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_elsalvador.html
Description: 5 fact sheets on invertebrate species, and 2 fact sheets on plant species.
ix. I3N- Project – Guatemala
URL: http://www.geocities.com/otecbio_especies/
Host/Originating Country: Oficina Tecnica de Biodiversidad / Guatemala.
Language: Spanish
Description: Lists of invasive species, experts, projects, databases, a photographic gallery, information on Verticillata hydrilla. I3N catalogs include the I3N-Guatemala catalog of information on invasive species research and activities in Guatemala.
x. I3N- Project – Jamaica (I3N-JA)
URL: http://www.jamaicachm.org.jm/Catalogue/I3N-JA_Clgue.htm
Host/Originating Country: Jamaica Clearing House Mechanism (CHM), Natural History Division of the Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica.
Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Description: Animal and plant species taxonomic information, resource persons catalogue, bibliographic and research listings for Jamaica IAS.
xi. I3N- Project – Mexico
URL:http://www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/info_especies/especies_invasoras/doctos/especiesinvasoras.html
Host/Originating Country: Conabio / Mexico.
Language: Spanish
Description: Describes invasive species information system developments in Mexico, including the Biotica database # in this list, and the National System of Information on Biodiversidad (SNIB) as containing IAS information. I3N catalogs include species information, experts, projects and data sets.
xii. I3N- Project – Paraguay
URL: http://www.seam.gov.py/i3n/index.htm
Host/Originating Country: Centro de Datos para la Conservación / Paraguay
Language: Spanish
Description: Catalogs include a species list and metadata.
xiii. I3N- Project – Peru (Catalogs under development)
URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_peru.html
xiv. I3N- Project – USA
URL: http://www.iabin-us.org/projects/i3n/i3n_documents/catalogs/catalog_usa.html
Description: List of invasive species of concern of the NBII Invasive Species Information Node (clicking on the species name brings up a page, created from the XML, with the actual content of all the links): http://pick1.pick.uga.edu/cgi-bin/20q?act=x_checklist&path=INVASIVES and a Partial Species List with ITIS links.
xv. I3N- Project – Dominican Republic
URL: http://www.ceiba.gov.do/inbidom/index.html
Description: Provides an invasive species inventory of 144 invasive species including common name, scientific name, origin and introduction method, distribution and general observations. Also provides a database of Experts, Institutions, and a third databases of Projects is under development.
URL: http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/
Host/Originating Country:
Language: English
Description: Information on bird, mammal and amphibian species of Latin America, including invasive species. Includes amphibian data for Mexico and Central America, bird and mammal range maps, photos, global conservation status, habitat description, distribution, population status, references, and maps.
URL: http://www.zin.ru/rbic/
Host/Originating Country: Zoological Institute RAS / Russia
Language: English
Description: Web portal providing access to the global, regional and national internet resources on biological invasions. RBIC Information System is serving as a Regional Clearinghouse on invasive alien species and information hub of the Global Invasive Species Informational Network. Databases included in the RBIC are:
i. Aquatic Invasive Species of Europe - http://www.zin.ru/projects/invasions/gaas/AA_IDB.HTM
ii. GIS Invader - http://www.zin.ru/rbic/projects/invader/default.asp
iii. Alien Species of the Baltic Sea (#13 in this document)
iv. European Research Network on Aquatic Invasive Species (ERNAIS) - http://www.zin.ru/rbic/projects/ernais/default.asp
v. Alien Species of North-West Russia information system (under development)
URL: http://sns.dk/nobanis/
Host/Originating Country: Danish Forest and Nature Agency / Denmark.
Language:
Description: A gateway to databases on invasive species in the Nordic and Baltic region [under development]. Promoting the exchange of information on IAS, as well as experiences with eradication or control of IAS from Greenland to Northern Russia and from Northern Norway to Germany and Poland.
URL: http://www.sns.dk/natur/nnis/
Host/Originating Country: Danish Forest and Nature Agency / Denmark.
Language: English
Description: Lists of contact persons for marine, freshwater, terrestrial invasive species, and listed alphabetically; Downloadable lists (xls, pdf) of introduced species (taxonomy, observations, origin, vector) and references for introduced species in the Nordic countries, by a Nordic network of scientists and administrators working within the area of introduced/alien species.
URL: http://www.envir.ee/looduskaitse/voorliigid_baas.html
Host/Originating Country: Estonia.
Language: Estonian, English.
Description: Provides access to PDF lists of aquatic invaders, introduced mammals, birds, terrestrial invertebrates and plants.
URL: http://www.sea.ee/Sektorid/merebioloogia/eesti/Marine_Alien_Species_of_Estonia.htm
Host/Originating Country: Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu Tallinn / Estonia.
Language: Estonian, English
Description: Provides information on invasive alien species of plankton, benthic invertebrates and fishes.
URL: http://www.sns.dk/natur/nnis/intro.htm
Host/Originating Country: Danish Forest and Nature Agency / Denmark
Language: Danish, English
Description: Includes a list of 1200 introduced species in Denmark and links to the Nordic Network on Introduced Species (http://www.sns.dk/natur/nnis/).
URL: http://www.ku.lt/nemo/
Host/Originating Country: Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania.
Language: English
Description: Interactive tool, including DATABASE SEARCH, BALTIC SUB-REGIONS and SPECIES DIRECTORY. The information comprised in the Database comes from: a) members of the Baltic Marine Biologists Working Group on Non-indigenous Estuarine and Marine Organisms and other researchers involved in invasive biology studies; b) published papers, environmental reports, “grey literature”, Internet sites; c) a Database Questionnaire (under construction).
URL: http://www.iop.krakow.pl/ias/
Host/Originating Country: Poland
Language: Polish, English
Description: A database of 403 alien species of plants, animals and fungi, describing pathways, place and time of introduction to Poland, current distribution, population trends and impact upon native species, habitats and ecosystems. For some species, there are also suggested methods of control.
URL: http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=5319&lan=en
Host/Originating Country: Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) / Finland.
Language: Finnish, Swedish, English
Description: Biodiversity clearing-house mechanism of the CBD. Currently links to Baltic Sea Alien Species database, Nordic Network on Introduced Species (NNIS), Regional Biological Invasions Center (RBIC) and contains an RTF article by Petri Nummi on Alien Species in Finland.
URL: http://www.svenskamiljonatet.se/
Host/Originating Country: Swedish EnviroNet / Sweden.
Language: Swedish, English
Description: Catalog of environmental information (literature, reseearch) and data for Sweden, including section on introduction and spread of alien organisms.
URL: http://www.ufz.de/biolflor/index.jsp
Host/Originating Country: Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BFN) / Germany.
Language: German, English
Description: information system on vascular plants of Germany, including biological and ecological traits of alien plant species.
URL: http://www.neophyten.de/
Host/Originating Country: The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BFN) / Germany.
Language: German
Description: Fact sheets on invasive alien plant species in Germany, including legal framework, ecology, impacts and control measures.
URL: http://www.floraweb.de/
Host/Originating Country: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) / Germany.
Language: German
Description: National information system on biology, distribution, and threat of all wild growing vascular plants of Germany, including alien plant species.
URL: http://www.biodiversity.be/bbpf/forum/invasion/invspecies.html
Host/Originating Country: Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism / Belgium
Language: English
Description: List of IAS that live in Belgium and that are known to have a detrimental impact on the environment. Includes species of terrestrial plants, molluscs, crustraceans, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Species names link users to fact sheets/profiles containing taxonomic information (including common name in English, French, Dutch and German), photographic images, a description of origin and distribution (including map of belgium with location points of feral populations), ecology and life history traits (habit preferences, life cycle, dispersion capacity, competition & predation, defense mechanisms), detrimental effects, population control, references, internet links, and contact email for those responsible for preparing the fact sheet/species profile.
URL: http://www.biodat.ru/db/intro/plant_e.htm
Host/Originating Country: Global Environment Facility, Quarantine Institute of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Russia.
Language: Russian, English
Description: Two databases (one of 1119 introduced plant records, and the other of 3250 introduced animal records) searchable by latin name, russian name, order, family, country of origin, and region of introduction. Information provided for species includes latin name, russian name, kingdom, order, family, point of exportation, country of exportation, region of exportation, manner of encroachment, detection point, area of introduction, country of introduction, region of introduction, biotype of introduction, year of introduction, population, dispersal dynamics, type of introduction, purpose of introduction, target organism, enemies and competitors, introduction results, economic importance, information source, year and scientific institution.
URL: http://www.appliedvegetationdynamics.co.uk/IAAPwebsite/
Host/Originating Country: Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory, University of Liverpool / UK.
Language: English
Description: Information on all Alien or Non-native organisms that are invasive in the UK providing information regarding problem species, management strategies and control techniques. Includes all taxonomic groups of multicellular organisms, classified as plants or animals, and aquatic (freshwater) or terrestrial. Marine species are included in a fifth section which includes; algae, higher plants and animals.
URL: http://www.jncc.gov.uk/marine/non_native/
Host/Originating Country: Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) / UK.
Language: English
Description: An online listing of marine flora and fauna information sheets describing non-native marine invertebrates, algae, and plants in the United Kingdom.
URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/crab/index.htm
Host/Originating Country: The Natural History Museum / UK
Language: English
Description: Provides information on Chinese Mitten crab classification, life history, distribution and associated environmental problems.
URL: http://www.brc.ac.uk
Host/Originating Country:
Language: English
Description: National custodian of wildlife distribution data for the British Isles. Provides species distribution information, including introduced crayfish and other marine invasive species.
URL: http://www.eppo.org/QUARANTINE/Alert_List/alert_list.html
Host/Originating Country: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) / France.
Language: English
Description: Information on pests selected because they may present a phytosanitary risk for the EPPO region. Includes reports on pests that are new to science, new outbreaks, reports of spread, etc.
URL: http://www.ame-lr.org/plantesenvahissantes/
Host/Originating Country: Agence Méditerranéenne de l'Environnement / France.
Language: French
Description: Linked list of 15 plant species providing information on description, reproduction biology, history, habitat, impacts, control, culture, and mapped distributions/observations.
URL: http://www.ciesm.org/atlas/
Host/Originating Country: International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (CIESM) / Monaco.
Language: English
Description: Provides a comprehensive, group by group, survey of recent marine 'immigrants' in the Mediterranean, which is undergoing drastic and rapid changes to its biota. Includes crustacean decapods and stomatopods, fishes, and molluscs.
URL: http://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/basecaul/
Host/Originating Country: Center of Oceanology of Marseilles / France.
Language: French.
Description: Provides a bibliography of publications on Caulerpa taxifolia in the Mediterranean.
URL: http://www.isima.fr/ecosim/ct.html
Host/Originating Country: Institut Supérieur d'Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs Applications (ISIMA) / France.
Language: English
Description: Provides images showing the different stages for the simulation of Caulerpa taxifolia evolution in the north Mediterranean sea. Part of the Caulerpa modeling & simulation program.
URL: http://www.caspianenvironment.org/biodb/eng/main.htm
Host/Originating Country: Caspian Environment Programme / Caspian Sea nations
Language: English, Russian (Common names also in Kazakh, Turkmenian, Azerbaijani)
Description: Information about aquatic alien invasive species in the Caspian Sea including taxonomic description (phylum, class, order, family, genus, synonyms), common names, photographic images or diagrams, description and map of distribution of species within the Caspian Sea (includes status as per International/National Red Data Books, references for the first record for the Caspian Sea and for the redescription of the species), general characteristics of the species, relation to abiotic environmental factors, feeding, reproduction, life history and development, interspecific relations, impacts, references, and name/affiliation of the record creator.
URL: http://lv.invasive.info/
Host/Originating Country: http://lv.invasive.info/ / Latvia
