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Annex 2. Essential websites and

databases

For general information on invasive species there are European Information System for Alien Species (COST
various databases and websites. They provide a valuable TD1209)
source of information, most through online databases, http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/fa/Actions/TD1209
on the distribution and facts of alien species in the
Mediterranean and elsewhere with useful links. North European and Baltic Network on Invasive Alien
Species European (NOBANIS) Database
Global Coverage http://www.nobanis.org/
CABI Invasive Species Compendium (ISC) European Environment Agency ‘Signals’:
http://www.cabi.org/isc/ http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/killer
-slugs-and-otheraliens
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), database on
Introductions of Aquatic Species (DIAS) Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe
http://www.fao.org/figis/servlet/static?dom=collection&x (DAISIE)
ml=dias.xml http://www.europe-aliens.org/
FISHBASE Mediterranean Coverage
http://www.fishbase.org/
CIESM Atlas of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean Sea
Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) is linked to NISbase, a distributed database managed by
http://www.gisp.org the Smithsonian Institute, aiming at a census of all
non-indigenous aquatic species introduced around the
TNC's Global Invasive Species Team (GIST) was world.
disbanded in March 2009. http://www.nisbase.org/nisbase/index.jsp
Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) MAMIAS Database from Regional Activity Centre For
http://www.invasivespecies.net/ Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA) of the Barcelona
Convention
Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) http://www.rac-spa.org/
http://www.gisinetwork.org http://www.mamias.org
GloBallast Partnerships: To implement sustainable, ESENIAS
risk-based mechanisms for the management and control East and South European Network for Invasive Alien
of ships’ ballast water and sediments to minimize the Species. Regional data portal on invasive alien species
adverse impacts of aquatic invasive species transferred (IAS) in East and South Europe (Albania, Bosnia and
by ships. Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo under
http://globallast.imo.org/ UNSC Resolution 1244/99, FYR Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia, Romania (invited country) and
The IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group and IUCN Turkey.
Global Invasive Species Database (GISD), http://www.esenias.org/
http://www.issg.org/#ISSG
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/ National Coverage
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) InvasiBer, Especies Exóticas Invasoras de la Península
http://www.nature.org/invasivespecies Ibérica (Spain)
http://tncinvasives.ucdavis.edu/ http://invasiber.org/

European Coverage Ellenic Network on Aquatic Invasive Species (ELNAIS) -
Greece
European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) elnais.ath.hcmr.gr
http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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