European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): supporting European policies and scientific research

By Stelios Katsanevakis, Ivan Deriu, Fabio D’Amico, A. L. Nunes, Sara Pelaez Sanchez, Fábio, Crocetta, M. Arianoutsou, Ioannis Bazos, A. Christopoulou and 16 more. 2015

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The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) was launched in 2012 by the European Commission to facilitate the exploration of existing alien species information and to assist the implementation of European policies on biological invasions. At the core of EASIN, there is an inventory of all known alien and cryptogenic species in Europe (the EASIN Catalogue, herein published), which includes relevant information, such as taxonomic classification, pathways of introduction, year and country of first introduction. Spatial records of species occurrence in Europe are stored in the EASIN geo-databases, integrating data from many data providers and the literature. All this information is publicly available through a widget framework, providing easy to use and flexible tools for searching and mapping. The EASIN datasets have been used for pan-European or regional assessments of pathways and gateways of alien invasions, towards the fulfilment of the related targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of European policies. Moreover, in support of the new EU Regulation on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in Europe, an Early Warning and Rapid Response System is being developed by EASIN.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Insect Science

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In Ecological Modeling

1. Joaquim Garrabou
2. E. Azzurro
3. Stelios Katsanevakis

In Ecology

1. E. Ballesteros
2. Argyro Zenetos
3. M. Gambi
4. C. Bianchi
5. C. Linares
6. F. Tomas
7. M. Çınar
8. M. Verlaque

In Insect Science

1. Argyro Zenetos
2. Stelios Katsanevakis

Citations in the corpus

• New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July, 2017) (2017, unknown): “Pancuc-ci-Papadopoulou et al. , 2010; Galil et al ., 2015) are now listed as the alien M. indicus (Corsini-Foka et al. , 2015; Katsanevakis et al. , 2015).”
• Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species (2020, background): “This information was retrieved from the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN), Katsanevakis et al. (2020), BioInvasions Records 9(2): 165–182, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.01 169 which has a transparent mechanism for quality assurance and updates through an Editorial Board of ex”
• Citizen-science for monitoring marine invasions and stimulating public engagement: a case project from the eastern Mediterranean (2019, background): “Share it!!!” project (hereafter: iSea data) were compared with the respective inventories reported by EASIN (Katsanevakis et al. 2015; Tsiamis et al. 2016; Deriu et al. 2017) and ELNAIS (Zenetos et al. 2018).”