What are Invasive species?

Find out more about invasive species and why they threaten our world.

Calendar of events

Workshops, conferences and events focusing on invasive species.

Websites and online databases

Search for websites and online databases about invasives species.

GISP Phase I (1998-200) Scientific Steering Committee

Phase I "Building the Knowledge Base"

Phase I Programme Elements / affiliated committee members:

Human Dimensions of Invasives - Jeffrey McNeely Ecology of Invasives - Marcel Rejmanek, Dave Richardson
Global Change and Invasives - Richard Hobbs, Hal Mooney Current Status Assessment of Invasives - Mark Lonsdale, Richard Mack
Early Warning Systems - Mick Clout Pathways/Vectors of Invasives - Gregory Ruiz, James Carlton
Assessment of Best Management Practices- Jeff Waage Education - Alan Holt
Economic Consequences - Charles Perrings, Mark Williamson Risk Assessment - David Andow
Legal and Institutional Frameworks - Nattley Williams

David A. Andow Department of Entomology, 219 Hodson Hall University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 /Tel: 612/624-5323
Email: dandow@maroon.tc.umn.edu.

James T. Carlton Maritime Studies Program Williams College, Mystic Seaport, P. O. Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355 /Tel: 860/572-5359 Fax: 860/572-5329.
Email: jcarlton@williams.edu.

Mick Clout IUCN/ISSG/SEMS, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand/ Tel: 64-9/3737599 ext 5281 Fax: 64-9/3737042.
Email: m.clout@auckland.ac.nz.

Nattley Williams Legal Officer Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC,Tel: ++49 228 2692 227, Fax: ++49 228 2692 250.
Email: NWilliams@unfccc.int.

Richard Hobbs Prof Richard Hobbs, Professor of Environmental Science, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150 Phone: +61 8 9360 2191, Fax: +61 8 9360 7412 Australia.
Email: rhobbs@essun1.murdoch.edu.au.

Alan Holt Nature Conservancy Asia/Pacific Regional Office Dir. of Conservation Programs, The Nature Conservancy, NW & HI Div., 217 Pine St. #1100, Seattle WA 98101 Tel: (206) 343-4344, Fax: (206) 343-5608.
Email: aholt@tnc.org.

W. M. Lonsdale CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700 Canberra, Australia, 2601.
Email: lonsdale@ento.csiro.au.

Richard N. Mack Department of Botany, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164 Tel: 509/335-3316 Fax: 509/335-3517.
Email: rmack@mail.wsu.edu.

Jeffrey A. McNeely (GISP Executive Committee)Biodiversity Policy Coordination Division, IUCN, 28 Rue Mauverney CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland /Tel: 41-22/999 0284 Fax: 41-22/999 0025.
Email: jam@hq.iucn.org.

Harold A. Mooney (Chair, GISP Executive Committee) Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 /Tel: 650/723-1179 Fax: 650/723-9253.
Email: hmooney@globalecology.stanford.edu.

Charles A. Perrings Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK /Fax: 44-1904/432998.
Email: cap8@mailer.york.ac.uk.

Marcel Rejmanek Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 /Tel: 530/752-1092 Fax: 530/752-1449.

Dave Richardson Institute for Plant Conservation, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa/ Tel: 27-21/650-2440 Fax: 27-21/650 4046.
Email: rich@botzoo.uct.ac.za.

Peter J. Schei (GISP Executive Committee) International Negotiations Directorate for Nature Management,Tungasletta 2, 7485 Trondheim,Norway/ Fax: 477358050.
Email: peter-johan.schei@dirnat.no.

Jeff Waage (GISP Executive Committee), Professor of Applied Ecology, Provost and, Head of Department of Agricultural Sciences, Imperial College at Wye, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5AH, Tel. 44(0)2075942743, Fax. 44(0)2075942601.
Email: j.waage@ic.ac.uk.

Mark Williamson Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK /Fax: 44-1904/432860.
Email: mw1@york.ac.uk.

Gregory Ruiz Smithsonian Environmental Research Center(SERC), P.O. Box 28 Edgewater, Maryland 21037 /Tel 301-261-4190 Fax: 301-261-7954.
Email: Ruiz@serc.si.edu.