This page provides access to projects of the Invasive Species Information Node and its partners.

The NBII's Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN) and its numerous partners are involved in many research projects to create the components of an Early Detection, Rapid Assessment and Rapid Response system for invasive species. They help us to understand, identify, document or report, monitor, predict, control invasive species and restore invaded habitats. These projects involve extensive data synthesis, literature reviews, original university and governmental research, and research conducted by other NBII nodes. To learn more, choose a research project from the list in the yellow column to the right of this text, or scroll down this page using your mouse and keyboard.

The Global Invasive Species Database

The ISIN and its partners at the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission and the Conservation Management Institute (CMI) of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University are working together to develop and provide online invasive species profiles through the Global Invasive Species Database (GISD). The GISD is maintained by the ISSG and mirrored online in the United States by the ISIN. The 460+ invasive species profiles within the database provide descriptive information about invasive species of global importance, including photographs, ecology, distribution, management and control information, impacts, references and links, and contact information for experts on the species. The development of the GISD is an ongoing project, celebrating five years of a successful partnership in 2007.

The Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) site

The Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) site is a product of the Invasive Species Information Node's partnership with the Center for Aquatic Resource Studies of the Florida Integrated Science Center of the  U.S. Geological Survey.