DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe

Checklist
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Jun 12, 2020 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

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Description

The DAISIE - inventory of alien invasive species in Europe is a species checklist dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). It contains information on 12,104 taxa (mostly species and mostly introduced) occurring in the wild in Europe since 1500. It covers a broad taxonomic spectrum of terrestrial and aquatic free living and parasitic organisms. The collation of the alien species list is the result of the efforts of the DAISIE (http://www.europe-aliens.org/) project partners and more than 300 collaborators from Europe and neighbouring countries, involved in different fields of expertise and organisations. Here the DAISIE checklist is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each species: the scientific name, higher classification, and stable taxon identifier (in the taxon core), the vernacular names (in the vernacular names extension), the presence in a specific region, the year of the first introduction (first collection) and/or last assessment/observation in that region, as well as extra information (in the distribution extension), and the habitat, native range, and ecofunctional group (in the description extension). The DAISIE dataset is no longer maintained, but can be used as a historical archive for researching and managing alien plants or compiling regional and national registries of alien species. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/trias-project/daisie-checklist

We have released this dataset under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY 4.0). We would appreciate it if you follow the GBIF citation guidelines (https://www.gbif.org/citation-guidelines) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don’t hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via https://twitter.com/trias_project.

The publication of the checklist to GBIF was supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action Alien CSI “CA17122 - Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science” as a Short Term Scientific Mission “Publishing alien species checklist data for Europe through repeatable, open workflows”, with technical support provided by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO).

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 12,115 records.

3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Taxon (core)
12115
Distribution 
62162
Description 
48058
VernacularName 
17070

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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Roy D, Alderman D, Anastasiu P, Arianoutsou M, Augustin S, Bacher S, Başnou C, Beisel J, Bertolino S, Bonesi L, Bretagnolle F, Chapuis J L, Chauvel B, Chiron F, Clergeau P, Cooper J, Cunha T, Delipetrou P, Desprez-Loustau M, Détaint M, Devin S, Didžiulis V, Essl F, Galil B S, Genovesi P, Gherardi F, Gollasch S, Hejda M, Hulme P E, Josefsson M, Kark S, Kauhala K, Kenis M, Klotz S, Kobelt M, Kühn I, Lambdon P W, Larsson T, Lopez-Vaamonde C, Lorvelec O, Marchante H, Minchin D, Nentwig W, Occhipinti-Ambrogi A, Olenin S, Olenina I, Ovcharenko I, Panov V E, Pascal M, Pergl J, Perglová I, Pino J, Pyšek P, Rabitsch W, Rasplus J, Rathod B, Roques A, Roy H, Sauvard D, Scalera R, Shiganova T A, Shirley S, Shwartz A, Solarz W, Vilà M, Winter M, Yésou P, Zaiko A, Adriaens T, Desmet P, Reyserhove L (2020): DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe. v1.7. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=daisie-checklist&v=1.7

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 39f36f10-559b-427f-8c86-2d28afff68ca.  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventorythematic; checklist; inventory; alien species; Europe; AlienCSI

Contacts

David Roy
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
David Alderman
  • Originator
CEFAS Weymouth Laboratory
Pauline Anastasiu
  • Originator
University of Bucharest
RO
Margarita Arianoutsou
  • Originator
University of Athens
GR
Sylvie Augustin
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d’Orléans
FR
Sven Bacher
  • Originator
Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution Unit, University of Fribourg
CH
Corina Başnou
  • Originator
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Campus de Bellaterra
ES
Jean-Nicolas Beisel
  • Originator
Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosysteme Functioning, University of Metz
FR
Sandro Bertolino
  • Originator
Laboratory of Entomology and Zoology, DIVAPRA, University of Turin
IT
Laura Bonesi
  • Originator
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Trieste
IT
François Bretagnolle
  • Originator
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
FR
Jean Louis Chapuis
  • Originator
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
FR
Bruno Chauvel
  • Originator
UMR, INRA/ENESAD/UB, Biologie et Gestion des Adventices
FR
François Chiron
  • Originator
Department of Ecology, Systematics and Evolution, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IL
Philippe Clergeau
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SCRIBE, IFR 140, Campus de Beaulieu
FR
Jonathan Cooper
  • Originator
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
Teresa Cunha
  • Originator
teresa.cunha@ec.europa.eu
BE
Pinelopi Delipetrou
  • Originator
University of Athens, Faculty of Biology, Department of Botany
GR
Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Domaine de la Grande Ferrade, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, Pathologie forestière
FR
Mathieu Détaint
  • Originator
Association Cistude Nature
FR
Simon Devin
  • Originator
Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosysteme Functioning, University of Metz
FR
Viktoras Didžiulis
  • Originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipėda University
LT
Franz Essl
  • Originator
Vienna University
AT
Bella S. Galil
  • Originator
National Institute of Oceanography
IL
Piero Genovesi
  • Originator
Chair European Section IUCN SSC ISSG, INFS (National Wildlife Institute)
IT
Francesca Gherardi
  • Originator
Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Università di Firenze
IT
Stephan Gollasch
  • Originator
GoConsult
DE
Martin Hejda
  • Originator
Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
CZ
Philip E. Hulme
  • Originator
National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies
NZ
Melanie Josefsson
  • Originator
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, c/o Department of Environmental
SE
Salit Kark
  • Originator
Department of Ecology, Systematics and Evolution, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IL
Kaarina Kauhala
  • Originator
Turku Game and Fisheries Research
FI
Marc Kenis
  • Originator
Forestry and Ornamental Pest Research, CABI Europe
CH
Stefan Klotz
  • Originator
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
DE
Manuel Kobelt
  • Originator
Community Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Bern
CH
Ingolf Kühn
  • Originator
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
DE
Philip W. Lambdon
  • Originator
RSPB, c/o Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
GB
Tor-Björn Larsson
  • Originator
European Environment Agency
DK
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d’Orléans
FR
Olivier Lorvelec
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR ESE, INRA
FR
Hélia Marchante
  • Originator
Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências Exactas e Ambiente Sector de Biologia e Ecologia
PT
Dan Minchin
  • Originator
Marine Organism Investigations
IE
Wolfgang Nentwig
  • Originator
Community Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Bern
CH
Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi
  • Originator
Dipartimento di Ecologia del Territorio, Università di Pavia
IT
Sergej Olenin
  • Originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipėda University
LT
Irina Olenina
  • Originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University
LT
Irina Ovcharenko
  • Originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute
LT
Vadim E Panov
  • Originator
Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University
RU
Michel Pascal
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
FR
Jan Pergl
  • Originator
Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
CZ
Irena Perglová
  • Originator
Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
CZ
Joan Pino
  • Originator
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Campus de Bellaterra, Uníversitat Autònoma de Barcelona
ES
Petr Pyšek
  • Originator
Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
CZ
Wolfgang Rabitsch
  • Originator
Federal Environment Agency Ltd, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
AT
Jean-Yves Rasplus
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet
FR
Biren Rathod
  • Originator
Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
Alain Roques
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d’Orléans
FR
Helen Roy
  • Originator
Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
Daniel Sauvard
  • Originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d’Orléans
FR
Riccardo Scalera
Tamara A. Shiganova
  • Originator
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
RU
Susan Shirley
  • Originator
Department of Forest Science, Oregon State Universit
US
Assaf Shwartz
  • Originator
Department of Ecology, Systematics and Evolution, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IL
Wojciech Solarz
  • Originator
Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences
PL
Montserrat Vilà
  • Originator
Estación Biológica de Doñana
ES
Marten Winter
  • Originator
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
DE
Pierre Yésou
  • Originator
Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage
FR
Anastasija Zaiko
  • Originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipėda University
LT
Tim Adriaens
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Peter Desmet
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Lien Reyserhove
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

Geographic Coverage

This checklist contains documented introduction records of the alien taxa for 71 terrestrial and nine marine regions of Europe, the Levantine Basin and the North African coast of the Mediterranean Sea. These regions mostly match political borders of countries as they are known today. Where data were available at a finer political or biogeographic level, these are also presented e.g., the administrative regions of the United Kingdom (Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland) or islands such as Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Greenland or Svalbard.

Bounding Coordinates South West [27.68, -23.2], North East [70.96, 43.94]

Taxonomic Coverage

In total, this dataset includes taxa from 5 kingdoms and 53 phyla recorded in the database. The phyla of Spermatophyta, Arthropoda and Chordata contain the highest numbers of the alien species: 56, 24 and 5 %, respectively. Many phyla (32 out of 53) contain less than 10 recorded species, and 12 phyla are represented by only one recorded alien species.

Kingdom Plantae (plants), Animalia (animals), Fungi (fungi), Bacteria (bacteria), Chromista

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1500-01-01 / 2005-12-31

Sampling Methods

See DAISIE (2009)

Study Extent See DAISIE (2009)
Quality Control See DAISIE (2009) and step description.

Method step description:

  1. The source data is extracted from the DAISIE database, a MySQL database managed by the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology (CEH).
  2. Multiple raw data files were generated from this database to make the mapping process more structured and easy to comprehend. These raw files were uploaded to a GitHub repository (https://github.com/trias-project/daise-checklist. See https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/ for an introduction to this repository and the mapping of this dataset.
  3. We developed multiple RMarkdown scripts to document and perform the transformation of the data to Darwin Core, which includes the following steps:
  4. Perform some basic data processing and restructuring (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/1_pre_processing.html).
  5. Create a taxon core file (http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_taxon.xml) including cleaning of the taxon rank information (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/2_dwc_taxon_mapping.html).
  6. Create a vernacular name extension (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/3_dwc_vernacularname_mapping.html).
  7. Create a distribution extension file (http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/distribution.xml, including standardization of the location information, occurrence status, means of establishment and event dates (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/4_dwc_distribution_mapping.html).
  8. Create a description extension file (http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml), including information about habitat, native range, and ecofunctional group (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/5_dwc_description_mapping.html).
  9. The resulting Darwin Core data files are uploaded to the INBO IPT and documented with metadata.
  10. The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. DAISIE (2009) Handbook of alien species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht ISBN 978-1-4020-8279-5, available by 17 November 2008

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 39f36f10-559b-427f-8c86-2d28afff68ca
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=daisie-checklist