Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species – South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ...
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) presents validated and verified checklists of introduced (alien) and invasive alien species at the country, territory, and associated island level. The primary intention of GRIIS is to provide checklists for countries, islands and soon a...
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| Format: | Dataset |
| Language: | English |
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Invasive Species Specialist Group ISSG
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/n76oxt https://www.gbif.org/dataset/43fdafb4-67ff-43b4-92d0-01c7f938be0f |
| Summary: | The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) presents validated and verified checklists of introduced (alien) and invasive alien species at the country, territory, and associated island level. The primary intention of GRIIS is to provide checklists for countries, islands and soon also for protected areas. Checklists are living entities, especially for biological invasions given the growing nature of the problem. GRIIS checklists are based on a published methodology and supported by the Integrated Publishing Tool that jointly enable ongoing improvements and updates to expand their taxonomic coverage and completeness. Phase 1 of the project focused on developing validated and verified checklists of countries that are Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Phase 2 which is on-going, aims to achieve global coverage including non-party countries and all overseas territories of countries e.g. Netherlands, France and United Kingdom. Species belonging to all Kingdoms are covered as ... |
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