Invasive+Species+resources

[|List of RI Invasive Species]

=__**Rhode Island Invasives**__=

Asian Shore Crab
CRMC guide to the [|Asian Shore Crab]

Asian Shore Crab [|information]

European Starling
european starling [|information overview]

All about Birds - [|European Starling]

[|Animal Diversity Web]

Purple Loosestrife (//Lythrum salicaria)//
USDA [|fact sheet]

Plants [|Least Wanted]

Invasive Information - [|Purple Loosestrife]

Japanese Knotweed (//Polygonum cuspidatum//)
How to control [|Knotweed].This link talks mostly about how to get rid of knotweed and keep it from coming back

A blog about [|controlling knotweed] this link offers a personal perspective about how damaging and difficult to remove knotweed can be.

Oriental Bittersweet (//Celastrus orbiculatus//)
URI outreach [|fact sheet] general information about bittersweet from URI

University of Maine [|outreach] more general information about knotweed

[|Least Wanted] another link describing the damage and issues with bittersweet

Is bittersweet [|killing your trees]?

Bittersweet [|Brush management]

[|Bittersweet information]

Bittersweet environmental impacts [|from Maine]

Hydrilla (//Hydrilla verticillata)//
Fact Sheet from [|Connecticut]

University of Florida center for [|invasive species]

USDA [|fact Sheet]

Maine Information [|hydrilla]

[|Map Of Hydrilla] Spread on East Coast

Hydrilla [|overview]

Massachusetts invasives Information - [|Hydrilla]

=Nearby Invasive Species=

Asian Long-Horned Bettle (//Anoplophora glabripennis)//
UVM [|outreach]
 * USDA [|fact sheet] ||

=Other Invasive Species=

Nurtria
The mammals of Texas - [|Nutria]

Lousianna[| Nutria Site]

Kudzu
The amazing [|Story of Kudzu]

Brown Tree Snakes
US Fish and Wildlife [|brown tree snake]

Other Resources

= Why are Invasive Species a Problem? =  @http://areaivenvirothon.org/2009/AquaticsFiles/InvasiveSpecies.pdf http://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive_species_faqs.html#some%20establish
 * = Invasive Species FAQs =

Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Find scientific names and classification of plants and animals >> http://www.itis.gov
 * = ITIS - For Name of Species =

@http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/index.shtml
 * = National Invasive Species Information Center =

Click here to look up information on any invasive species >> @http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/
 * = Global Invasive Species Database =

[|Zebra Mussel Interactive Map]