IUCN/Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)/Publications

Invaders from Planet Earth. World Conservation, Vol. 28, No. 4 and Vol. 29, No. 1 (Double issue), 1998, 63pp.
Lowe S. J., M. Browne and S. Boudjelas (2000). 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species (pdf version). Published by the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), Auckland, New Zealand. Hardcopies from: ISSG
McNeely, Jeffrey A., ed. ; Mooney, Harold A., ed. ; Neville, Laurie E., ed ; Schei, Peter Johan, ed. ; Waage, Jeffrey K., ed. Global strategy on invasive alien species - Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment; IUCN; CAB International - Gland: IUCN, 2001.
McNeely, Jeffrey A., ed. -The great reshuffling: human dimensions of invasive alien species. IUCN, Biodiversity Policy Coordination Division - Gland : IUCN, 2001.
Report of Workshop on Alien Invasive Species, GBF-SSEA. Colombo, October 1999. IUCN Regional Biodiversity Programme, Asia, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Copies from: IUCN Regional Biodiversity Programme, Asia

Policy

Guidelines for the Prevention of Biodiversity Loss caused by Alien Invasive Species.Prepared by the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) and approved by the 51st Meeting of the IUCN Council, Gland Switzerland, February 2000. This publication is also available in French and Spanish. Hardcopies (English version only) from: ISSG
Shine S., N. Williams and L. Gündling (2000). A Guide to Designing Legal Institutional Frameworks on Alien Invasive Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, Cambridge and Bonn. xvi + 138pp (English version) (Français). Hardcopies of this publication are available in English, French and Spanish and can be obtained from: IUCN Publications Services Unit
Legal and Institutional Dimensions of Alien Invasive Species Introduction and Control. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Legal and Institutional Dimensions of Alien Invasive Species Introduction and Control. Held at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Godesberger Allee 108-112, Bonn, Germany 10-11 December 1999.
Workshop on Mitigating the Impact of Alien/Invasive species. In: IUCN - The World Conservation Union (1999). Report of the Thirteeth Global Biodiversity Forum, San José, Costa Rica. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, p15-22. Available from: IUCN Biodiversity Policy Coordination Division and: IUCN Oficina Regional para Meso-America

GISP Publications

Mooney H. A., J. A. McNeely, L. E. Neville, P. J. Schei and J. K. Waage (eds). Invasive Alien Species: Searching for Solutions. Island Press, Washington, D.C. (volume in preparation).
Wittenberg R. and Cock M. J. W. (2001). Invasive alien species: A Toolkit of Best Prevention and Management Practices. CAB International, Wallingford , Oxon , UK .
Invaded Series Species Profiles Table of Contents
Invasive Alien Species Toolkit: Case studies.

Other

Carlton J. T. and J. B. Geller (1993). Ecological roulette: The global transport of nonindigenous marine organisms, Science, 261:78-82
Clout M. N. and S. J. Lowe (1997). Biodiversity loss due to biological invasion: prevention and cure. In: IUCN. Conserving Vitality and Diversity: Proceedings of the World Conservation Congress Workshop on Alien Invasive Species. Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Ottawa, pp 29-40.
Fritts T. H. and G. H. Rodda (1998). The role of introduced species in the degradation of island ecosystems: a case history of Guam. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:113-140
Howard G. H. (2000). Control options: freshwater invasives. Presented at the Workshop on "Best Management Practices for preventing and controlling Invasive Alien Species", Cape Town, South Africa, 22-24 February, 2000.
Jenkins P. T. (1999). Global Policy Changes Needed to Stop Biological Invasions Caused by International Trade. Presented at the Workshop on the Legal and Institutional Dimensions of Alien Invasive Species Introduction and Control. Held at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Godesberger Allee 108-112, Bonn, Germany 10-11 December 1999.
Lodge D. M. (1993). Biological Invasions: Lessons for Ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 133-137
Lonsdale W. M. (1999). Global Patterns of Plant Invasions and the Concept of Invasibility. Ecology, 80(5): 1522-1536
Low Tim (1999). Feral future: the untold story of Australia's exotic invaders. Penguin Books Australia, 380 pp.
Mack R. N. and W. M. Lonsdale (2001). Humans as Global Plant Dispersers: Getting More Than We Bargained For. Bioscience, 51(2): pp 95-102
Mooney H. A. and R. J. Hobbs (2000). Invasive Species in a Changing World. Island Press.
Mack R. N., D. Simberloff, W. M. Lonsdale, H. Evans, M. N. Clout and F. Bazzazz (2000). Biotic invasions: causes, epidemiology, global consequences and control. Issues in Ecology 5: 1-20.
Reichard Sarah H. and Peter White (2001). Horticulture as a Pathway of Invasive Plant Introductions in the United States. Bioscience, 51(2): 103-113
Simberloff D. (1996). Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States. CONSEQUENCES: Volume 2, Number 2.
Zavaleta E. S., R. J. Hobbs and H. A. Mooney (2001). Viewing invasive species removal in a whole-ecosystem context. TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 16, No. 8: 454-459.

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