DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe
Citation
Roy D, Alderman D, Anastasiu P, Arianoutsou M, Augustin S, Bacher S, Başnou C, Beisel J, Bertolino S, Bonesi L, Bretagnolle F, Chapuis J L, Chauvel B, Chiron F, Clergeau P, Cooper J, Cunha T, Delipetrou P, Desprez-Loustau M, Détaint M, Devin S, Didžiulis V, Essl F, Galil B S, Genovesi P, Gherardi F, Gollasch S, Hejda M, Hulme P E, Josefsson M, Kark S, Kauhala K, Kenis M, Klotz S, Kobelt M, Kühn I, Lambdon P W, Larsson T, Lopez-Vaamonde C, Lorvelec O, Marchante H, Minchin D, Nentwig W, Occhipinti-Ambrogi A, Olenin S, Olenina I, Ovcharenko I, Panov V E, Pascal M, Pergl J, Perglová I, Pino J, Pyšek P, Rabitsch W, Rasplus J, Rathod B, Roques A, Roy H, Sauvard D, Scalera R, Shiganova T A, Shirley S, Shwartz A, Solarz W, Vilà M, Winter M, Yésou P, Zaiko A, Adriaens T, Desmet P, Reyserhove L (2020). DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe. Version 1.7. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ybwd3x accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.Description
The DAISIE - inventory of alien invasive species in Europe is a species checklist dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). It contains information on 12,104 taxa (mostly species and mostly introduced) occurring in the wild in Europe since 1500. It covers a broad taxonomic spectrum of terrestrial and aquatic free living and parasitic organisms. The collation of the alien species list is the result of the efforts of the DAISIE (http://www.europe-aliens.org/) project partners and more than 300 collaborators from Europe and neighbouring countries, involved in different fields of expertise and organisations. Here the DAISIE checklist is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each species: the scientific name, higher classification, and stable taxon identifier (in the taxon core), the vernacular names (in the vernacular names extension), the presence in a specific region, the year of the first introduction (first collection) and/or last assessment/observation in that region, as well as extra information (in the distribution extension), and the habitat, native range, and ecofunctional group (in the description extension). The DAISIE dataset is no longer maintained, but can be used as a historical archive for researching and managing alien plants or compiling regional and national registries of alien species. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/trias-project/daisie-checklist
We have released this dataset under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY 4.0). We would appreciate it if you follow the GBIF citation guidelines (https://www.gbif.org/citation-guidelines) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don’t hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via https://twitter.com/trias_project.
The publication of the checklist to GBIF was supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action Alien CSI “CA17122 - Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science” as a Short Term Scientific Mission “Publishing alien species checklist data for Europe through repeatable, open workflows”, with technical support provided by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO).
Sampling Description
Study Extent
See DAISIE (2009)Sampling
See DAISIE (2009)Quality Control
See DAISIE (2009) and step description.Method steps
- The source data is extracted from the DAISIE database, a MySQL database managed by the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology (CEH).
- Multiple raw data files were generated from this database to make the mapping process more structured and easy to comprehend. These raw files were uploaded to a GitHub repository (https://github.com/trias-project/daise-checklist. See https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/ for an introduction to this repository and the mapping of this dataset.
- We developed multiple RMarkdown scripts to document and perform the transformation of the data to Darwin Core, which includes the following steps:
- Perform some basic data processing and restructuring (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/1_pre_processing.html).
- Create a taxon core file (http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_taxon.xml) including cleaning of the taxon rank information (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/2_dwc_taxon_mapping.html).
- Create a vernacular name extension (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/3_dwc_vernacularname_mapping.html).
- Create a distribution extension file (http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/distribution.xml, including standardization of the location information, occurrence status, means of establishment and event dates (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/4_dwc_distribution_mapping.html).
- Create a description extension file (http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml), including information about habitat, native range, and ecofunctional group (https://trias-project.github.io/daisie-checklist/5_dwc_description_mapping.html).
- The resulting Darwin Core data files are uploaded to the INBO IPT and documented with metadata.
- The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Plantaecommon name: plants rank: kingdom
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Animaliacommon name: animals rank: kingdom
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Fungicommon name: fungi rank: kingdom
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Bacteriacommon name: bacteria rank: kingdom
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Chromistarank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Bibliographic Citations
- DAISIE (2009) Handbook of alien species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht ISBN 978-1-4020-8279-5, available by 17 November 2008 -
Contacts
David Royoriginator
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
email: dbr@ceh.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331
David Alderman
originator
CEFAS Weymouth Laboratory
Pauline Anastasiu
originator
University of Bucharest
RO
email: anastasiup@yahoo.com
Margarita Arianoutsou
originator
University of Athens
GR
email: marianou@biol.uoa.gr
Sylvie Augustin
originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d’Orléans
FR
email: sylvie.augustin@orleans.inra.fr
Sven Bacher
originator
Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution Unit, University of Fribourg
CH
email: sven.bacher@unifr.ch
Corina Başnou
originator
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Campus de Bellaterra
ES
email: c.basnou@creaf.uab.es
Jean-Nicolas Beisel
originator
Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosysteme Functioning, University of Metz
FR
email: beisel@univ-metz.fr
Sandro Bertolino
originator
Laboratory of Entomology and Zoology, DIVAPRA, University of Turin
IT
email: sandro.bertolino@unito.it
Laura Bonesi
originator
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Trieste
IT
email: lbonesi@units.it
François Bretagnolle
originator
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
FR
email: francois.bretagnolle@bota.unine.ch
Jean Louis Chapuis
originator
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
FR
email: chapuis@mnhn.fr
Bruno Chauvel
originator
UMR, INRA/ENESAD/UB, Biologie et Gestion des Adventices
FR
email: bruno.chauvel@dijon.inra.fr
François Chiron
originator
Department of Ecology, Systematics and Evolution, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IL
email: chironfrancois@gmail.com
Philippe Clergeau
originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SCRIBE, IFR 140, Campus de Beaulieu
FR
email: philippe.clergeau@rennes.inra.fr
Jonathan Cooper
originator
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
email: jcoop@ceh.ac.uk
Teresa Cunha
originator
teresa.cunha@ec.europa.eu
BE
email: teresa.cunha@ec.europa.eu
Pinelopi Delipetrou
originator
University of Athens, Faculty of Biology, Department of Botany
GR
email: pindel@biol.uoa.gr
Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau
originator
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Domaine de la Grande Ferrade, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, Pathologie forestière
FR
email: loustau@bordeaux.inra.fr
Mathieu Détaint
originator
Association Cistude Nature
FR
email: mathieu.detaint@cistude.org
Simon Devin
originator
Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosysteme Functioning, University of Metz
FR
email: s.devin@laposte.net
Viktoras Didžiulis
originator
Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipėda University
LT
email: viktoras@ekoinf.net
Franz Essl
originator
Vienna University
AT
Bella S. Galil
originator
National Institute of Oceanography
IL
email: bella@ocean.org.il
Piero Genovesi
originator
Chair European Section IUCN SSC ISSG, INFS (National Wildlife Institute)
IT
email: piero.genovesi@infs.it