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.
2.100 of the World’s Worst Invasive Alien Species (in GISD)
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.
3.Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW)
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.
Host/Originating Country: Conserveonline.org / USA.
Language: English
Description: Downloadable access database containing information on over 330 marine invasive species, including non-native distributions by marine ecoregion, invasion pathways, and ecological impact and other threat scores. This is an ongoing project and the database will be updated periodically.
Non-USA Context - IAS Databases
6.IABIN – Invasives Information Network (I3N) (Western Hemisphere)
URL: http://i3n.iabin.net/index.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-Argentina
URL: Database -http://www.inbiar.org.ar/ and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/argentina.html
Host/Originating Country: Universidad Nacional del Sur / Argentina.
URL: Database -http://www.geocities.com/otecbio_especies/ and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/guatemala.html
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.
xi. I3N-Jamaica
URL: Database -http://jamaica.paradigma.com.ar/ and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/jamaica.html
Host/Originating Country: Institute of Jamaica - Natural History Division / Jamaica
Language: English
xii. I3N-Mexico
URL: Database - http://www.conabio.gob.mx/invasoras/index.php/Especies and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/mexico.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.
Xiii. I3N-Paraguay
URL: Database -http://www.i3n.org.py/ and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/paraguay.html
URL: http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/peru.html xv. I3N-Uruguay
URL: Database -http://uruguayi3n.iabin.net/ and http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/uruguay.html
Host/Originating Country: Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad de la República / Uruguay
Language: Spanish
xvi. I3N-USA
URL: http://i3n.iabin.net/participants/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.