the Southern

African Plant
Invaders Atlas
 https://citsci.co.za/

http://academic.sun.ac.za/cib/

iNaturalist

Hulbert (2016) South African Journal of Science

 PASSIVE CITIZEN GENERAL ACTIVE
SURVEILLANCE SCIENCE SURVEILLANCE SURVEILLANCE

Community Agricultural Invasive plant

REPORTED Members of the Farmers, land-
groups, citizen extension surveillance
BY: public managers
science groups officers teams

Sighting requests Sighting requests Surveying

EXAMPLE Regional Alert lists with
on radio, on specific sentinel sites and
ACTIVITIES: meetings and requirements for
television, and newsletters or e- identified high-
presentations reporting
newspapers mail list servers risk locations

Fig. 3.3 from Wilson, Panetta, and Lindgren (2017)

Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions, Cambridge University Press
(based on Hester and Cacho 2017 Biological Invasions)
 Ad hoc reports
Lesley’s road-side surveys

iNaturalist?

Integration of
historical data?
1979 – 2018
Lesley Henderson
~62 500 records
in 1 427 QDGCs
1979 – 2018
SAPIA
participants
~32 000 records
in 1 519 QDS
Dissemination of data
Analysis of data
Species
distribution
models

Rouget et al. 2004 DDI

 Alien biomes

Rouget et al. 2015 South African Journal of Botany

 van Wilgen, B.W. & Wilson, J.R. (2018) SANBI and CIB
Wilson et al. (2018) Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, 2612–2620
2000–2016: Naturalised
plants increased from 601 to
773 species 5. Number and status of
alien species

9. Alien species
richness 20. Effectiveness of
species treatments
Biocontrol has
slowed spread

Henderson & Wilson (2017) ABC Bothalia

Department of Environmental Affairs (2014) Government Gazette
Richardson et al. in press
Regularly used!
 https://www.wits.ac.za/media/migration/files/cs-38933-fix/migrated-pdf/pdfs-
7/Alien%20Weeds%20and%20Invasive%20Plants%20A%20Complete%20guide%20to%20d
eclared%20weeds%20and%20invaders%20in%20South%20Africa%20Author%20Lesley%20
Hendersoncompressed.pdf

https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/National-Status-Report-web-
6MB.pdf

http://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Pages/Newsletters.aspx

http://invasives.org.za/

invasivespecies@sanbi.org

jrwilson@sun.ac.za
Iris pseudacorus

Jaca & Mkhize 2015 BioInvasions Records