Fields Description Database 
purpose
Examples of data and knowledge products Identified gaps
Impact Environmental 
and socioeconomic impacts, 
mechanisms of 
impact, outcomes of 
these impacts and 
ecosystem services 
impacted
Risk assessment
policy
management
* InvaCost database - https://figshare.com/articles/
dataset/InvaCost_References_and_description_
of_economic_cost_estimates_associated_with_
biological_invasions_worldwide_/12668570/4
* Millennium ecosystem assessment - 
https://www.millenniumassessment.org
* IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - 
https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/threatclassification-scheme
* FishBase
No transparent, 
standardized 
way to report on 
impacts
Risk 
assessments
Developed risk 
assessments with 
outcomes
Management * Global Invasive Species Database
* Pacific Islands Ecosystems at Risk 
* Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa 
and the Socio-Economic Impact Classification for 
Alien Taxa
* Global Compendium of Weeds - 
http://www.hear.org/gcw/
* East and South European Network for Invasive Alien 
Species - www.esenias.org
* Pacific Invasive Ants Toolkit - http://www.piat.org.nz/
* National invasive alien species databases 
Policy 
response 
Legislations 
enacted, regulations, 
voluntary codes of 
conduct
Policy
management
* ECOLEX - https://www.ecolex.org
* FAOLEX - fao.org/faolex/en/
* InforMEA - United Nations Information Portal on 
Multilateral Agreements - https://www.informea.org
* EU Regulations - https://ec.europa.eu/environment/
nature/invasivealien/index_en.htm
Databases not 
searchable for 
invasive alien 
species
Eradication Successes Management * DIISE - http://diise.islandconservation.org/
* Global Eradication and Response Database - 
http://b3.net.nz/gerda/
* National invasive alien species databases 
Control Management 
practices, failure, 
best practices, 
biocontrol
Management * Pacific Islands Ecosystems at Risk 
* Database of introductions of insect biological 
control agents for the control of insect pests (Cock 
et al., 2016) {Table 5.4}
* Biological Control of Weeds. A world catalogue of 
agents and their target weeds - 
https://www.ibiocontrol.org/
* iMapInvasives - sharing information for strategic 
management - https://www.imapinvasives.org
* Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International 
Invasive Species Compendium 
* Pacific Invasive Ant Toolkit
* Caribbean Invasive Alien Species Network - 
https://caribbeaninvasives.org/
* Database of Island Invasive Species Eradications
* Global Eradication and Response Database 
* Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System 
* East and South European Network for Invasive Alien 
Species
* National invasive alien species databases 
No standardized 
way to report 
on management 
outcomes
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BACKGROUND
APPENDIX 3 
Examples of data 
and knowledge products