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Database: Alaska Exotic Plant Mapping Project (AKEPMP)
Host: U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center (ASC)
Scope: AKEPMP is a project that coordinates the compilation of a regional database of exotic plant distributions for Alaska and creates maps for those distributions. The program is based on the cooperation of the ASC and AKEPIC collaborators. ASC personnel are responsible for collecting exotic plant species field data from collaborators and organizing the data into a master regional database, generating geographic information system (GIS) based distribution maps and distributing the maps and database on the Internet. Collaborators collect exotic plant species field data and submit these data to ASC using suggested standards. These collaborators include state and federal agencies, tribal governments, universities, private consulting firms and other interested parties.
Database: CalWeed Database
Host: California State Deptartment of Food & Agriculture; California Interagency Noxious Weed Coordinating Committee; U.S. Bureau of Land Management; University of California-Davis
Scope: This database contains weed eradication project profiles, including many invasive weeds, in California. Profile data include: targeted invasive name(s); targeted species for (re)introduction; project location; lead and participating agencies; controls used; time frame for project; resource issues; and project contact information. Users can view the data by project, by targeted invasive, by county, or by control method.
Database: CalFlora Database (requires registration)
Host: CalFlora Database Project is a collaborative project of the USDA Forest Service, the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project, the United States Geological Survey, the UC Davis Information Center for the Environment, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and others.
Scope: CalFlora provides information on California plant biodiversity for conservation, research, and education. This database contains summary geographic and ecological distribution information for 8,363 California vascular plant taxa, as well as additional habitat information for rare taxa and species of the Sierra Nevada.
Database: Digital Flora of Texas
Scope: This collaboration involving six institutions will be centered on continued development and enhancement of an herbarium specimen browser system that is now available through the Flora of Texas Consortium Web site. Content of this system at the end of the project period will be 300,000 specimen records, images representing 2,000 Texas species, and key/description coverage of over 1,000 species.
Database: Florida - Invasive Species
Host: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Scope: Scope of the multi-year project is to provide a geo-referenced inventory and tracking tool for occurrences of invasive exotic plants on Florida's public conservation lands.
Database: Geographic
Information System (GIS) for Weed Surveys and BioControl
Host: Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Scope: From the mid-90’s to
2005, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture Weed
Integrated Pest Management team piloted a variety
of strategies for collecting and distributing geographic
information regarding noxious and invasive weeds in
Minnesota – as well as biological releases designed
to control those weeds. These innovative strategies
produced a wealth of data and lessons learned towards
a more efficient and cost-effective approach to managing
weeds in Minnesota.
Database: Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR)
Host: U.S. Geological Survey; University of Hawai'i
Scope: This Web site provides
technology, methods, and information to decision-makers, resource managers, and the general public to aid in the fight against harmful alien species in Hawaii. Its Harmful Non-Indigenous Species Database (HNIS) offers data on plant, vertebrate, and invertebrate invaders.
Database: Introduced Marine Species of Hawai'i
Host: Bishop Museum, Hawaii Biological Survey and University of Hawaii
Scope: This guide was assembled to provide information concerning some of the most common marine alien species to people who spend time in the coastal waters of Hawaii.
Database: Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE)
Host: University of Connecticut
Scope: The New England Invasive Species Data Server provides access to plant databases for the New England region. Retrieved data include geographic identifiers so that it can be joined or linked to geographic boundary files for New England, its states, its counties, towns, and other geographical areas.
Database: Marine Invader Tracking Information System
Host: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sea Grant Center for Coastal Resources
Scope: Contains information and monitoring data on marine invasive species in the northeast United States.
Database: National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS)
Host: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Scope: NEMESIS is a resource for information on non-native, or exotic, species that occur in coastal marine waters of the United States. NEMESIS provides summaries for approximately 500 non-native coastal species including when, where and how these species invaded and key information on their biology and ecology. NEMESIS provides access to data on non-native species in the Chesapeake Bay.
Database: New York Flora Atlas
Host: New York Flora Association
Scope: Searchable database of aquatic and terrestrial vegetation found in New York State. Provides ecological status, distribution maps by county, and bibliographic information.
Database: Non-Native Aquatic Species in the Gulf of Mexico Region
Host: Gulf States Marine Fisheries
Commission, Gulf and South Atlantic Regional Panel
on Aquatic Invasive Species
Scope: Work contained herein identifies exotic and non-indigenous species in the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem and research needs for these species.
Database: Pearl Harbor Legacy Project Species List
Host: Bishop Museum, The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Honolulu Hawai`i
Scope: This listing was developed by Bishop Museum researchers under contract to the U. S. Navy (Department of Defense Legacy Project Number 106). It provides the taxonomic names and identifying authorities, collection dates, locations and references for 1141 taxa of marine algae, invertebrates and fishes that have been collected or observed in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii since the first biological observations were made in the harbor in 1866. The information was derived from published literature, unpublished reports, collected material recorded the Bishop Museum algal, mollusk and marine invertebrate catalogues and 434 taxa collected from or observed at 15 stations Pearl Harbor during 1996. Species considered to be introduced or cryptogenic (not verifiably native or introduced) are so designated.
Database: Southern
Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Nonnative Invasive
Data Tool
Host: USDA,
Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Scope:
Includes data and summaries on the current distribution of the 33 invasive
plants covered in Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern
Forests and the additional 20 forest invasive plants
in Florida. For more information, see Maps
of Occupation and Estimates of Acres Covered by Nonnative
Invasive Plants in Southern Forests.
Database: Southwest Exotic Mapping Program (SWEMP)
Host: U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Plateau Research Station, Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse
Scope: A regional database regional database of non-native invasive plant distributions for the southwest
(Arizona, New Mexico and adjacent areas of adjoining states) and creates maps
for those distributions.
The SWEMP 2006 database contains over 31,600 records of invasive, non-native plant occurrences that were contributed by weed managers in the Southwest.
Database: Texas Plant Database
Host: TEXASINVASIVES.ORG - Pulling Together Initiative
Scope: Online database devoted to plants known to occur in or around Texas that are suspected of causing invasive problems in natural areas around the United States. The purpose of this database is to provide illustrated plant descriptions, ecological information, distributions & habitats, history of introductions, plant reproduction, management approaches, and other useful information about the species listed.
Database: WeedMapper (Oregon)
Host: Oregon State University,
Rangeland Resources
Scope: WeedMapper includes locations of noxious weeds throughout Oregon as collected by responsible federal, state, and local agencies. Electronic maps are viewable at the state, county, township, or section (square mile) level. WeedMapper is designed to facilitate identification, reporting, and verification of noxious weeds in the state of Oregon. It provides maps of known infestations of the most serious weed pests, as well as photographs, taxonomic and diagnostic characteristics to assist in their identification.
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