ML070540091

JAFNPP - Web Reference - Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List

ML070540091
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Site:	FitzPatrick
Issue date:	02/22/2007
From:	US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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Introduction: Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Research Programs By Region By Subject By Researcher Publications Milestone Reports GREAT LAKES AQUATIC NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES LIST compiled by the NOAA National Center for Research on Aquatic Invasive Species (NCRAIS web site) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Ann Arbor, Michigan with the assistance of the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER web site) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan The Great Lakes have a long history of introductions -

intentional and unintentional - of aquatic nonindigenous

species. The list now includes 183 species based primarily on

Mills et al. (1993), Ricciardi (2001) and Ricciardi (2006), plus

two more recently verified introductions: viral hemorrhagic

septicemia (VHS), and Hemimysis anomala. The documented number of aquatic nonindigenous species in the Great Lakes is best interpreted as a minimum. Identification depends on

our ability to find, recognize, verify, and document new

species, which is, in turn, dependent on our ability to

adequately sample the Great Lakes ecosystem. In addition, the list presented here only includes species that were not

native to any part of the Great Lakes basin. There are other

species that are documented as native to part of the basin, but

invaded other parts of the basin due to human-expedited

mechanisms. Examples of the latter are the sea lamprey and

the rusty crayfish.

Here we present an interim update to the list as an Excel spreadsheet available for download. It provides five separate

worksheets, each sorted by a different category: Year of

Discovery, Species (scientific) Name, Common Name, file:///Gl/ADRO/DLR/REBB/Fitzpatrick/dSEIS%20Prepar...20Lakes%20Environmental%20Research%20Laboratory.htm (1 of 2)2/23/2007 9:09

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Introduction:==

Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory attributed Vector(s) of Introduction, and (general) Description.

This will be replaced during 2007 by a database search engine

associated with the U.S. Geological Survey's NAS database (see link below). The available information will be expanded to

include more information and links to detailed fact sheets (presently under development by Dr. Anthony Ricciardi, McGill

University) for many of the species.

+ Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigeonous Species List (xls) For further information on individual species consult:

NISbase - An International Nonindigenous Species Database Network (NISbase web site):

http://www.nisbase.org/nisbase/index.jsp U.S. Geological Survey Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS web site):

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/

Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Site (SGNIS web site):

http://www.sgnis.org/index.htm Invasive Zooplankton Species Hemimysis anomola Just Discovered !

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