ESPM 3002 Exotic Plants & Animals

Related Links

General Exotic Species

• National Invasive Species Council
• Nonindigenous Aquatic Species - USGS - comprehensive coverage - maps - clearinghouse
• Global Invasive Species Program
• APHIS USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• APHIS Information Management System for Invasive species
  • Identified Plant Pests Regulated by APHIS (IPPRA)
  • Federal Noxious Weeds (Pest Plants)
  • North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database (NANIAD)
• Bernd Blossey's Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Program site (biocontrol and Phragmites)
• California Native Plant Society
• California Invasive Plant Council
• Noxious Weeds - USDA APHIS
• America's Least Wanted - Web Publication by The Nature Conservancy
• Invasive plants of Canada
• Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States: US OTA 1993 report
• NBII Invasive Species Home Page aka invasivespecies.gov
• Exotic Introductions: Ch 9 of a hypertext book on biodiversity and Conservation by Peter J. Bryant
• Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States - Daniel Simberloff
• California Department of Ag Pest site
• Fish and Wildlife Service Invasive Species Program
• USGS - Our living resources - non-native species somwhat dated (1995) but comprehensive and referenced report
• Minnesota Prohibited Species and Rules
• Minnesota Department of Ag Invasive species program
• MN DNR Harmful Exotic Species Programs
• Minnesota Invasive Species Advisory Council
• Minnesota Invasion Biology Research Consortium (U of MN) IBRC
• Australian Pest Animal Control site
• Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (photos, pubs, etc.)
• Union of Concerned Scientists Invasive Species pages (good for legistlative updates - contact your legislators)
• Biodiversity Partnership - Invasive species (has info by state - but not entirely accurate)
• Columbia University Introduced Species Summary Project (course) page - has synopses of a number of species, primarily terrestrial (last updated in 2002)
• Habitatitude - A new awareness campaign targeted at pet industry. Industry is on board.
  

Aquatic Exotics

• Nonindigenous Aquatic Species- USGS - comprehensive coverage - maps - clearinghouse
• Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species site
• Sea Grant NATIONAL AQUATIC NUISANCE SPECIES CLEARINGHOUSE
• Wisconsin Sea Grant Exotic Species
• Minnesota Sea Grant Exotic Species
• Ruffe Home Page - U of MN -
• USFWS Sea Lamprey Management
• GLFC Sea Lamprey Management
• Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council - exotics page
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants UFL
• Eurasian watermilfoil
• Invasive Nonnative Freshwater Plants in Washington Extensive info on many exotic macrophytes
• GLIN: Exotic Sepcies in the Great Lakes Basin
• Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
• Aquatic Nuisance species in VT
• CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA - noxious marine algae & other marine/aquatic exotics
• Genetic Engineering Creates Supersalmon, and Controversy (Seattle Times)
• Marine exotic species from MIT Sea Grant
• ANS Digest (in pdf) - archives and current issues
• Non-Native Invasive Aquatic and Wetland Plants in the United States - top 24 invasive aquatics
• Carp control in Australia
• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (Invasive species is a top issue - see Invasives section and appendix).

Australia/South Pacific

• Australian Pest Animal Control site
  • Carp
  • Fox
• CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (most exotics shifted to above but does research including wildlife pests and diseases)

Rabbit control

• Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus Science articles
• Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus More info from Science
• Rabbit control old but good archive
• CSIRO Australia rabbit Calicivirus News old but good archive
• Australian Pest Animal Control - Rabbits

Weed control

• CSIRO Entomology - Weed Management Program

Brown Tree Snake - and Island Exotics

• Hawaii - Harmful non-indigenous species database
• Alien species in Hawaii
• Alien vertebrates in Hawaii
• Brown tree snake - good links from Hawaii
• Brown tree snake fact sheet
• Crash's Brown tree snake info page relocated oh no, it is now closed due to time constraints :(
• Brown Tree Snake On line
• USGS Brown tree snake information
• Brown tree snake control in Area 50, Guam rail, & insights.
• Invasions of the brown tree snake (Fritts and Rhoda with refs)

Gypsy Moth

• Forest Service gypsy moth in North America site
• VPI Gypsy Moth site
• Michigan Gypsy Moth Education Program
• WI DNR gypsy moth site
• WI Dept Ag gypsy moth information
• Minnesota Dept. Ag - Homeowner's guide to gypsy moth
• USDA Gypsy Moth Handbook
• British Columbia Gypsy moth page (west coast example)
  

Eurasian watermilfoil

• Milfoil BioControl
• Use of weevils for milfoil biocontrol in Lake Bomoseen
• NAS Eurasian watermilfoil fact sheet (current distribution map)
• Invasive Plants of Canada Mid-1980s distribution map)
• Eurasian watermilfoil in British Columbia
• Eurasian watermilfoil in the State of Washington Good site - management info
• Eurasian watermilfoil - site from Exotic Aquatics on the Move (Sea Grant and Geographic Education Aliances)
• List of Eurasian watermilfoil experts
• Invasive Exotic Plants of Canada Fact Sheet No. 10 Eurasian watermilfoil
• Noxious Freshwater Aquatic Plants in Washington
• Native Plant Conservation Initiative, Alien Plant Working Group - Eusasian watermilfoil
• Eurasian watermilfoil in Vermont

Medfly

• Med fly in Florida - lost (a lot of medfly info has vanished from the web)
• Med fly information links
• APHIS Mefly Environmental Documents
• APHIS preventative release program
• CA Dept. Ag. Medfly Exclusion program

Plants - general

• Invasive plants of Canada
• Federal Interagency Weed Committee
• INVADERS Database System - invasive alien plants in the northwestern US
• Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council
  • A good set of links from the Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council
• NPS Handbook for Ranking Exotic Plants for Management and Control
• Bernd Blossey's Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Program site (biocontrol and Phragmites)

Purple Loosestrife

• Purple loosestrife management broken also - see invasives.fws.gov
• Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey & NAPIS' page on LYTHRUM (loosestrife); Purple, Lythrum salicaria
• Purple loosestrife Info Center
• Purple Loosestrife Biological Control In Illinois
• Invasive Exotic Plants of Canada Fact Sheet No. 4 Purple loosestrife

Saltcedar

• Salt Cedar Information links
• Nature Conservancy Saltcedar Element Stewardship Abstract- detailed & referenced
• Saltcedar maps and links from Univ Wyoming
• Salt Ceder - a noxious weed in Washinton (state)

Zebra Mussel

• USACE Zebra Mussel Page
• Zebra mussel Information system (USACE) life history and biology
• Non-indigenous Aquatic Species - Zebra Mussel Information Page
• Zebra Mussel info from SG Nat. Aquat. Nuis. Sp. Clearing House Formerly National Zebra mussel clearing house (NY Sea Grant)
• Zebra mussel literature

Other exotics

• Invasive Exotic Plants of Canada Fact Sheet No. 3 European frogbit
• CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA - noxious marine algae & other marine/aquatic exotics
• Caulerpa in the Mediterranean (in French)
• Caulerpa in southern California
• Research done on Caulerpa (lots of good, referenced information)
• Waterchesnut (Trapa natans)
• Asian Longhorned Beetle -NCFES site
• Asian Longhorned Beetle - Illinois site
• USDA Asian longhorned beetle site
• Nile perch - marketing success or ecological disaster?
• Lake Victoria - Water hyacinth, nutrient runoff and Nile perch
• Weevils work wonders for Lake Victoria
• USGS Report on Abundance and Distribution of Water Hyacinth in Lake Victoria
• Cane toad
• Melaleuca in Florida
• Melaleuca quinquenervia Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
• Formosan termite USDA site
  • University of Florida site - referenced info
• Killer Bees (Africanized Honey Bees)
• Africanized Bees in California

Rates of Spread, Spread Models, Climate Models and Exotics Modelling

• Modelling Forest Insect Dynamics
• Models of dispersal and spread - stratified dispersal - diffusion models Good treatment of models
• Climex - climate matchining model
• CSIRO (Australia) IPM Modelling Network

Risk Assessments of Exotics

• APHIS Risk Assessment for Noxius Weeds
• US EPA Guidlines for Ecological Risk Assessment
• Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force - Generic risk analysis review process See also Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points and Pathway Definition,
  Risk Analysis and Risk Prioritization
• EVALUATING INDIRECT ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL - IOBC Symposium, Oct 1999 Montpillier France Symposium Link gone, is to book
• Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds - Guidelines Reviewers Manual in pdf
• Ecological Risk Assessment of Aquatic Exotic Species - Good overview and links but currently offline
• Minnesota (MISAC) Rankings of Threat

Biological control

General:

• Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America - Cornell Univ.
• National Biological Control Institute
• International Organization for Biological Control
• Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook
• EVALUATING INDIRECT ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL - IOBC Symposium, Oct 1999 Montpillier France
• Non-target impacts of biocontrol agents - research needs
  

Weeds:

• Cornell BC - Weed Feeders
• Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant Species
• Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States (Van Driesche et al. 2002) Comprehensive coverage of Aquatic and Terrrestrial weed biocontrol.
• IOBC/NRS Biological Control of Weeds Working Group
• Rhinocyllus conicus - Thistle-head weevil
• APHIS - Permits for Weed Biocontrol
• Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds - Guidelines Reviewers Manual in pdf

Aquatic Weeds:

• Biological Control Insects For Aquatic and Wetland Weeds (Center for Aquatic Plants, FL)
• FAIRS Aquatic Weed Guide (Fl. Ag. Info. Ret. Syst.)
• Milfoil BioControl
• Use of weevils for milfoil biocontrol in Lake Bomoseen
• Melaleuca control agent
  • Center for Aquatic Plants info on Melaleuca agent
• Grass carp
• Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States (Van Driesche et al. 2002)
  • see sections I and II

  Alligatorweed
  Floating Fern (Salvinia)
  Water Chestnut
  Waterhyacinth
  Waterlettuce  
  Eurasian Watermilfoil
  Hydrilla

  • Wetland Plants

  Australian Paperbark Tree (Melaleuca)
  Common Reed
  Old World Climbing Fern  
  Purple Loosestrife
  Japanese Knotweed

Insects:

• Insect Biocontrol Laboratory USDA
• Cornell BC Site - Predators, Parasitoids and Pathogens
• Pheromones and semiochemicals
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Biocontrol in Hawaii

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