An official website of the United States government.

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites always use a .gov or .mil domain. Before sharing sensitive information online, make sure you’re on a .gov or .mil site by inspecting your browser’s address (or “location”) bar.

This site is also protected by an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate that’s been signed by the U.S. government. The https:// means all transmitted data is encrypted — in other words, any information or browsing history that you provide is transmitted securely.

National Invasive Species Information Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Home / Invasive Species Resources

Invasive Species Resources

Provides access to all site resources (alphabetically), with the option to search by species common and scientific names. Resources can be filtered by Subject, Resource Type, Location, or Source.

Displaying 1 to 20 of 325

Search Help
10 Ways You Can Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

2021 Invasive Species List (2021) (PDF | 419 KB)

New Jersey Invasive Species Strike Team; Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space.

Includes New Jersey Invasive Species Strike Team Target & Watch Species along with all Widespread Invasive Species in New Jersey.
See also: Info Center for more resources.

A Guide to Integrated Fish Health Management in the Great Lakes Basin: Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia - Chapter 19 (Jun 2002) (PDF | 26 KB)
Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
See also: Table of Contents for complete document.
A Review of Aquatic Plant Monitoring and Assessment Methods (2012) (PDF | 444 KB)

Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Foundation.

See also: AREF - Publications for more resources
Activities - Invasive Species
Washington Native Plant Society.
African Swine Fever

National Pork Producers Council.

Alien Encounters
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (United Kingdom). National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme.
American Phytopathological Society Meetings

American Phytopathological Society.

An Invasive-Species Success Story: The Eradication of the European Grapevine Moth in California (Mar 2019)
Entomological Society of America. Entomology Today.
Invasive insect and arthropod species make for a lot of scary headlines—think emerald ash borer, spotted lanternfly, and Asian longhorned tick, just to name a few. But success stories in invasive-species response are out there. They just need to be told. One of those success stories is the eradication of the European grapevine moth (Lobesia botrana) in northern California after it was found there in 2009. A cooperative, multipronged response effort kept infestations from running wild, and it was declared eradicated in 2016, two years after the last adult moth was caught in the region. The story of this effort is recounted, along with analysis of the invasion’s dynamics, in a study published in January in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
An Ounce of Prevention: How to Stop Invasive Insects and Diseases from Devastating U.S. Forests (Feb 2007) (PDF | 556 KB)
Nature Conservancy. Global Forest Partnership. Forest Health Program.
See also: Invasive Species Research Reports for more resources
Animal Factsheets: Cane Toad

Australian Museum.

Animal Health - African Swine Fever

American Veterinary Medicine Association.

Aquatic Invasive Species Program

Tahoe Resource Conservation District.

Audit of Non-Native Species in England
English Nature.
Audubon Native Plants Database

National Audubon Society.

Use Audubon’s native plants database and explore the best plants for birds in your area (by zip code). Audubon's native plants database draws its plant data from the North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program (BONAP).

Avian Influenza - Frequently Asked Questions

American Veterinary Medicine Association.

Avian Pox: A Disease That Can Affect Any Bird (PDF | 166 KB)
National Wild Turkey Federation.
Beech Leaf Disease - A New Problem for Ontario Trees

Nature Conservancy Canada.

Biodiversity - Invasive Species
Lake Champlain Land Trust.
Biodiversity and Human Health Benefit from Invasive Species Removal (Jun 13, 2017)

Island Conservation.

Restoring islands through the removal of non-native invasive mammals is a powerful biodiversity conservation tool. This new study now shows that human communities on islands could benefit from restoration actions, which can potentially reduce or eliminate the burden of diseases transmitted to people by invasive species. Simply put, removal of invasive species can benefit human health in addition to ecological health.