Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Aquatic, Wetland & Invasive Plant Information Retrieval System

Project Website

http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/search80/NetAns2/

Project Description

After 25 years of assiduous work, the APIRS database now includes more than 65,000 citations, and continues to be the largest free database of its kind in the world. Beginning as a mainframe, punch-card database of a few hundred references about water hyacinths, the APIRS database now contains citation and keyword records for scientific articles and reports about uncounted species of aquatic, wetland and invasive plants. The database has been used many thousands of times by researchers, government agencies, companies, teachers, students and private groups and individuals. Users can request searches of the database or they can access the database themselves, online.

The database originally was meant to be a source of information for "aquatic weed" workers in developing countries, and was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development for that purpose. It quickly became a source of information for workers in Florida as well, gaining the support of the then Bureau of Aquatic Plant Management of the Florida Department of Natural Resources (now the Bureau of Invasive Plant Management of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection). USAID ceased sponsorship of the database in the early 1980s

Contact

Karen Brown
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University of Florida

Project Type

Data Provider

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-Feb-1981

Key Inputs

Reports and scientific articles, funding from government

Key Infrastructure

Web site and database

Key Technologies

PHP

Key Processes

Manual data entry

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Kingdom - All invasive plants

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