Overview of European alien plant checklists
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Macroecological research in invasion ecology depends on evaluation and assignment of the alien status of plant species in different regions of Europe. The development of national checklists of alien floras in many countries started in the 1990s based on the collation and expert evaluation of available floristic records for particular countries. Subsequently, continental-scale databases containing regional data on alien plants, such as DAISIE, GloNAF and Euro+Med PlantBase were developed. However, there are still gaps and inconsistencies among existing checklists and databases of alien plant species in terms of their up-to dateness, completeness, comparability, data quality and consistency of species categorizations. Moreover, information on alien plants is insufficient for some European regions. The aim of this project is to compile an overview of recently published national and regional alien checklists across European countries. We aim at unifying the taxonomy and nomenclature, invasion and residence time status categories and other information provided for their species using a common methodological approach. Based on the unified species lists, we will compare alien floras across Europe and identify main gaps in data availability and quality. So far, we have digitized complete or partial alien checklists for 50 European territories (countries or bigger islands and archipelagos with distinct history and biogeography). We continue searching for available checklists and evaluating them. Species status data obtained from published checklists will become part of the recently developed online database FloraVeg.EU. |
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