What are we about?
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to global biodiversity. As a result ‘Trends in IAS’ was selected as one of 22 Headline Indicators (HI) to measure progress towards the Convention on Biological Diversity's target of reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.
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Listing of invasive alien species associated with 10 forms of uncertainty!
Populating the pressure indicator for invasive alien species - in other words ‘number of invasive alien species per country’ (see McGeoch et al. 2010) � is dependent on the availability of high quality lists of invasive alien species for a range of taxonomic group, countries and regions. The listing of invasive alien species is prone to a wide range of both avoidable and unavoidable errors.
Database
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- Apr 2012 Listing of invasive alien species associated with 10 forms of uncertainty!
- Jun 2011 What is needed to report on Aichi Target 9 for Invasive Alien Species?
- Nov 2010 New Target for Invasive Alien Species — 2011-2020
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Indicator in Action
- 2012 Uncertainty in invasive alien species listing, Ecological Applications
- 2010 Global indicators of alien species invasion: threats, biodiversity impact and responses, Diversity and Distributions
- 2010 Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines, Science
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Publications
- Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
- Bird Life International
- Centre for Invasion Biology
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Global Environment Facility
- Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
- Indicator Fact Sheet: Trends in Invasive Alien Species
- Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)
- IUCN Red List
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