Sunday 25 November 2007

DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST

European Strategy on Invasive Alien Species
http://www.coe.int/t/e/cultural_co-operation/environment/nature_and_biological_diversity/nature_protection/sc23_tpvs07erev.pdf?L=E
In English.

Alien Species and Nature Conservation in the EU: The Role of the LIFE program http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/lifefocus/documents/alienspecies_en.pdf In English. 2,11 MB.

Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species
http://www.gisp.org/publications/brochures/globalstrategy.pdf
Docs for download. In English. Available also in French and Spanish. 719 Kb.

A Toolkit of Best Prevention and Management Practices
http://www.gisp.org/publications/toolkit/Toolkiteng.pdf
Docs for download. In English. Available also in French and Spanish. 2,5 MB.

A Guide to Designing Legal and Institutional Frameworks on Alien Invasive Species http://www.iucn.org/themes/law/pdfdocuments/eplp40en.pdf
In English. Aprox. 1,2 MB.

100 of the World’s Worst Invasive Alien Species
http://www.iucn.org/places/medoffice/invasive_species/docs/invasive_species_booklet.pdf
In English. Available also in Spanish. Aprox. 1,3 MB.

Guidelines for the control and management of ship’ ballast water to minimize the transfer of harmul aquatic organisms and pathogens
http://globallast.imo.org/index.asp?page=resolution.htm&menu=true
Available in English, French, Spanish,Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Portuguese.

Harmful non-indigenous species in the United States
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_1/DATA/1993/9325.PDF
In English. 8,64 MB.

Weed Control Methods Handbook
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/handbook.html
In English.

Status and Trends of the Nation’s Biological Resources http://www.hear.org/AlienSpeciesInHawaii/articles/hawaii_and_the_pacific.pdf
http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/sandt/Hawaii.pdf
In English. 2,93 MB.

Biological Invasions
http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloadpubs/scope37/scope37.html
In English.

An Invasive Species Assessment Protocol: Evaluating non-native plants for their impact on biodiversity
http://www.natureserve.org/library/invasiveSpeciesAssessmentProtocol.pdf
In English. 1,06 MB.

Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests. A Field Guide for Identification and Control http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs062/
In English. 1,6 MB.

Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/identif.html

In English. 3,8 MB.