Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
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Invasive Species Information System for Hawai‘i and the PacificPIERC Project Leader: Lloyd Loope, Ph.D. |
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Objectives: Provide information Hawai‘i/ Pacific island managers need to protect natural areas Provide resource for public information programs Assist Pacific risk assessors by providing worldwide database |
| Accomplishments: www.hear.organ internationally recognized website Formidable array of partners assembled for HEAR/PBIN “Global Compendium of Weeds” online resource for risk assessors “Bottom-up” buildup and capacity building of cooperators |
Significance: Pacific islands lack many of Hawaii’s worst invaders Hawaii still lacks many of the worst global invaders “Pathogens of globalization” have potential to overwhelm PBIN brings major resources |
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U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/pierc/
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