Description
An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area. Not all non-native species are invasive.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 873 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Zinets V (2022): invasive_species. v1.2. Training Organization. Dataset/Occurrence. be86e8c8d1604b148ff30e11792df41e
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Training Organization. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
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Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Author ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- biologist
Geographic Coverage
USA, Oceania, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.896, -160.312], North East [22.391, -154.753] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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Additional Metadata
Hawaii has a growing invasive species crisis affecting the islands' endangered plants and animals, overall environmental and human health, and the viability of its tourism and agriculture-based economy. Invasive species occur globally, but Hawaii is more susceptible to invasive species because they are islands. The entire island chain of Hawaii has been devastated by invasive insects, plants, hoofed animals such as deer, goats, pigs and other pests. Feral pigs eat endangered birds' eggs and trample fragile native plants, rosy wolfsnails from Florida gorge themselves on the islands' native snails, weeds such as Australian tree fern and Miconia calvescens plants shade out native plants, and coqui tree frogs aggravate tourists, eat native insects and decrease home values with their piercing calls.
| Alternative Identifiers | https://training-ipt-a.gbif.org/resource?r=uc2-is-4-vlad-zinets |
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