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Invasive Species Defined in a Policy Context: Recommendations from the Federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

K. George Beck ,
Kenneth Zimmerman ,
Jeffrey D. Schardt ,
Jeffrey Stone ,
Ronald R. Lukens ,
Sarah Reichard ,
John Randall ,
Allegra A. Cangelosi ,
Diane Cooper  and
John Peter Thompson
K. George Beck*
Affiliation:
Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Kenneth Zimmerman
Affiliation:
Lone Tree Cattle Company, P.O. Box 910, Bellflower, CA, 90707
Jeffrey D. Schardt
Affiliation:
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 3900 Commonwealth Blvd., Mail Station 705, Tallahassee, FL 32399
Jeffrey Stone
Affiliation:
Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR 97331
Ronald R. Lukens
Affiliation:
Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, P.O. Box 726, Ocean Springs, MS 39566
Sarah Reichard
Affiliation:
Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Box 354115, Seattle, WA 98195
John Randall
Affiliation:
The Nature Conservancy, University of California–Davis, Mail Stop 4—Robbins Hall, Davis, CA 95616
Allegra A. Cangelosi
Affiliation:
Northeast Midwest Institute, 218 D Street S.E., Washington D.C. 20003
Diane Cooper
Affiliation:
Taylor Shellfish Farms, SE 130 Lynch Road, Shelton, WA 98584
John Peter Thompson
Affiliation:
The Behnke Nurseries Company, 11300 Baltimore Avenue, P.O. Box 290, Beltsville, MD 20705
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: george.beck@colostate.edu
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Preamble: Executive Order (EO) 13112—defines an invasive species as “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.” In the Executive Summary of the National Invasive Species Management Plan (NISMP) the term invasive species is further clarified and defined as “a species that is non-native to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.” To provide guidance for the development and implementation of the NISMP, the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) and the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) adopted a set of principles outlined in Appendix 6 of the NISMP. Guiding Principle #1 provides additional context for defining the term invasive species and states “many alien species are non-invasive and support human livelihoods or a preferred quality of life.”

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invasive plantsinvasive weeds
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Invasive Plant Science and Management , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 414 - 421
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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