Keith Douce
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 4:00-4:30
The University of Georgia’s Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health has developed web applications for collecting, providing and maintaining information and images related to invasive species and forest health through the Bugwood Network. Identification, ecology and management, information is easily accessible for plants, insects, pathogens, nematodes, mollusks and vertebrates, as well as many biological control agents. Invasive.org, ForestPests.org, and Invasive.org provides information and/or images for over 1500 different species. The ForestryImages.org web site provides access to over 75,000 images for over 10,000 species. These projects have been funded in part by the USDA Forest Service and USDA APHIS PPQ. The overall goal of the project is to cross agency and organizational barriers to provide the most useful information to the largest audience. In order to accomplish this goal cooperation is required at a regional, national and even international level. The Center websites received over 140 million hits in 2007.
Keywords: ECOSYSTEM HEALTH, FOREST HEALTH, INVASIVE SPECIES, IMAGES, WEB SITES