European Alien Species Expertise Registry

Within the actual EU project DAISIE http://www.europe-aliens.org
a European Alien Species Expertise Registry has now
been established. This registry intends to collect the

expertise of experts which may be useful to gather the knowledge on
those species which are actually alien in Europe or may become so. Thus,
unlike its title, we want to gather the expertise of experts from all
over the world, since species alien to Europe come from all over the
world.

The expertise registry contains details for individual experts with
respect to taxonomic expertise, geographic units, and thematic areas
(e.g. distribution, conservation, restoration, ecology, economical
impact, genetics, legislation, administration, management, control,
biocontrol, pathways, transportation, physiology, risk assessment,
taxonomy, systematics).

The expertise registry has only now been set up and grows. We hope to
include already within this year a relevant part of experts and
expertise. This will enable us to analyze this expertise and to draw
conclusions. One of our goals is a paper which may become a political
postulation to ameliorate the expertise in those areas where it is not
sufficient. You see, it may also become important for yourself, in the
long run, to be included into our registry.

Please take the time to register at http://daisie.ckff.si
  the registry should be self explanatory, and
it will take you only 5 minutes. Forward this message to other experts
which may not have been reached by this mail.

Many thanks and best regards
Wolfgang Nentwig

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig, Zoological Institute, University of Bern
Baltzerstr. 6, CH 3012 Bern (Switzerland, old Europe)
Tel. +0041-31-631-4520 (direct), -4511(secretary), -4888(fax)
http://www.zoology.unibe.ch/nentwig/
http://www.zoology.unibe.ch/ecol/

Source: MARINE-B@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Jorge Brenner