University of Florida. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
See also: IPM Florida - Invasive Plants for more publications
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Provides state, county, point and GIS data. Maps can be downloaded and shared.
University of Florida. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension.
Electronic Data Information Source - publication resources
USDA. FS. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fire Sciences Laboratory.
IUCN. Species Survival Commission. Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Google.
Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce.
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
CAB International.
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Air Potato Patrol.
The Air Potato Patrol is a citizen science project that involves scientists and researchers with the USDA and the State of Florida and of course you — citizens concerned about the effects of invasive species on our economy and environment. We’re looking for volunteers who are willing to go through our training and report data to the researchers on what is happening to the air potato growing on your property. This citizen science project is open to anyone who wants to help and is easy to become involved with.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Division of Plant Industry.
USDA. FS. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
University of Florida. IFAS. Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
USDA. NRCS. National Plant Data Center.
USDA. ARS. Tellus.
The plot could have come from Hollywood — an insidious alien invader threatens to overrun the land, but intrepid scientists discover a secret weapon in the far-off, exotic land of Nepal and bring the pestilence to heel. But this is not fiction; it's true. The air potato plant (Dioscorea bulbifera) is an exotic vine from Asia that was introduced to Florida about 115 years ago to make medicine. After escaping from the lab, it multiplied and smothered native plant communities in all of Florida's 67 counties. It spread beyond to large swaths of land in the southeastern United States. All attempts to manage the air potato – mechanical, chemical, or physically gathering the bulbils — were unsuccessful; they were either too labor intensive and costly or caused collateral damage to native and endangered species. According to Min Rayamajhi, a plant pathologist at the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Invasive Plant Research Laboratory (IPRL) in Fort Lauderdale, FL, the vines return every season, repeating the growth cycle and expanding the invasion at a rate of about 6 inches per day. Rayamajhi and retired ARS scientist Bob Pemberton traveled to Nepal and accidentally discovered the air potato beetle.
USDA. Forest Service; Southern Regional Extension Forestry. Forest Health Program.
Includes species related publications, webinars and other resources.
University of Florida. IFAS Extension. Solutions for Your Life.
TexasInvasives.org.
Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area.