We're growing a library of literature relevant to climate change and invasive species. If you'd like to share your own research with us, please use this form. 

If you need access to any of the linked documents, please email nwriscc@gmail.com.

Management Briefs are what we at NW RISCC call our fact sheets, and what other RISCC networks call "Management Challenges" or "Research to Practice" documents. Call them what you want, these documents pull together relevant information from multiple sources to provide a broader, more applied perspective on issues at the intersection at climate change and invasive species.

Check out our most recent brief, Don't Move a Mussel: Preventing and Managing the Spread of Invasive Mussels!

Our Research Summaries provide short overviews of research articles relevant to invasive species management and climate adaptation. 

Our Tool Summaries provide short overviews of tools and other resources relevant to invasive species management. 

Have a tool you'd like to see summarized? Let us know via email!

Databases & Resources:

• The Biota of North America Program

• Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

• Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (Database of herbarium specimens from herbaria throughout the PNW, US and Canada)

• Guidelines for Climate-Smart Invasive Species Management

• iBiocontrol (Database of information and tools related to biological control)

• Non-indigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) information resource for the United States Geological Survey

• Oregon Invasive Species Hub

• The Western Governors’ Association list of the “Top 50 Invasive Species in the West”

Tools:

• The BC Invasive Plant Core Ranking Process (Decision tool to help managers decide to actively manage/watch plants in BC.)

• Climate Smart Restoration Tool

• Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (Database of herbarium specimens from herbaria throughout the PNW, US and Canada)

• CONUS Climate Console (explore climate projections across different areas in the US)

• National Phenology Network's Phenology Visualization Tool

• Pacific Northwest Climate Projection Tool

• Seedlot Selection Tool

• Washington State Noxious Weed Data Viewer (Map tool showing Washington State Department of Agriculture noxious weed detections)

• Weed Control User Tool (Decision support tool for non-chemical management of invasive plants) 

Maps & Mapping Tools:

• Site Prioritization Tool for Invasive Species (Web-based tool produced by the U.S. Geological Survey that maps estimates of non-native species invasion risk by integrating a variety of climatic and environmental variables, including transport risk and projections of changes in key climate variables through the end of the century.)

• EDDMapS

• iMapInvasives

• Washington State Noxious Weed Data Viewer (Map tool showing Washington State Department of Agriculture noxious weed detections)

British Columbia

• Invasive Species Council of BC: List of Regulated Invasive Plants 

• Provincial Priority Invasive Species (BC Inter-Ministry Invasive Species Working Group): 2023 list

• Aquatic Invasive Species of British Columbia

• Invasive Alien Plants of British Columbia

California

• Invasive Species List and Scorecards for California

Idaho

• Idaho Noxious Weeds: Terrestrial Plants

• Idaho Noxious Weeds: Aquatic Plants

• USGS Idaho - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species

• Idaho State Department of Agriculture: Invasive Species of Idaho

Montana

• Montana Field Guide

Oregon

• Oregon Invasive Species Council Info Hub (full list here)

• Oregon's Worst Invaders List (no longer updated; see OISC Hub instead)

• Oregon Invasive Species Council Watch List

U.S. National

• USFS 2016: Focal AIS Species List

• First Comprehensive List of Non-Native Species Established in Three Major Regions of the United States

Washington

• Washington Invasive Species Council Find a Priority Species

• Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board's Noxious Weed Lists

• USGS Washington NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species

Western U.S.

• Top 50 Invasive Species in the West (Western Governors' Association)

• Thesis: Effects of Climate Change on the Habitat Suitability of 4 Relatively New Invasive Plant Species in the Pacific Northwest (Emma Nikkel, University of British Columbia, 2022)