News

Websites and Datasets

• NBII Invasive Species Information Node
  • lists
  • experts
  • projects
  • data
• Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) List of U.S. Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Online Information Systems
• Global Invasive Species Database of the IUCN-ISSG
• Related databases, species lists, and Web sites (These are not I3N-USA products)

• Species Lists:
• DiscoverLife list of Kinds of Invasive Species in North America. (species names are hyperlinked to species profile pages containing graphics and other descriptive information)
• DiscoverLife and NBII catalog of 254 Invasive Species in the USA (MS Excel)
• Global Invasive Species Database list of invasive species that are invasive, native, or biostatus unknown in the USA
• United States Government Federal Noxious Weeds List
• Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council's Regional Forester's List and Ranking Structure Invasive Exotic Plant Species of Management Concern, USDA Forest Service, Southern Region
• Partial invasive species list with ITIS links (MS Excel)
  

• Experts:
• I3N USA is evaluating the possibility of creating a distributed experts database that will search regional experts databases.

• Taxonomic Resources and Expertise Directory (TRED). Search for a taxonomist by name, general and specific taxonomic expertise, geographic expertise, or habitat expertise
• NBII Invasive Species Information Node list of Experts databases
• NBII California Information Node list of invasive species experts

• Datasets:
• NBII Central Southwest / Gulf Coast Information Node datasets that catalog or inventory the invasive species of the region

• Projects:
• NBII Invasive Species Information Node invasive species projects
• NBII California Information Node list of invasive species projects

Progress Reports

• Progress report by I3N-USA (Jun 2006)

Publications and Other Documents

Presentations

• USA Presentation at January 16 2002 workshop

Pilot Project

Contact

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 302
Reston, Virginia 20192, USA
Website: www.nbii.gov

Lead: Annie Simpson
Tel: (1-703) 648-4281
Fax: (1-703) 648-4224
E-mail: asimpson@usgs.gov