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United States Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (US-RIIS) (ver. 2.0, November 2022)

Introduced (non-native) species that become established may eventually become invasive, so tracking all introduced species provides a baseline for effective modeling of species trends and interactions, geospatially and temporally. The United States Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (US-RIIS) (ver. 2.0, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFFTOD), as of 2022-10-23, is comprised of three lists, for the localities of Alaska (AK, with 545 records), Hawaii (HI, with 5,628 records), and the conterminous (or lower 48) United States (L48, with 8,527 records). Each includes introduced (non-native), established (reproducing) taxa that: are, or may become, invasive (harmful) in the locality; are not known to be harmful there; and/or have been used for biological control in the locality. To be included in the US-RIIS, a taxon must be non-native everywhere in the locality and established (reproducing) anywhere in the locality. Native pest species are not included. Each record has information on taxonomy, a vernacular name, establishment means (introduced unintentionally, or assisted colonization), degree of establishment (established, invasive, or widespread invasive), hybrid status, pathway of introduction (where available), habitat (where available), dates of introduction (where available), associated taxa (where applicable), native and introduced distributions (where available), and citations for the authoritative source(s) from which this information is drawn.

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Author(s) Annie Simpson orcid, Pam Fuller orcid, Kevin Faccenda orcid, Neal Evenhuis orcid, Janis Matsunaga, Matthew Bowser orcid
Publication Date 2022-11-04
Beginning Date of Data 0400-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2022-10-11
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFFTOD
Citation Simpson, A., Fuller, P., Faccenda, K., Evenhuis, N., Matsunaga, J., and Bowser, M., 2022, United States Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (US-RIIS) (ver. 2.0, November 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KFFTOD.
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