A website was created with the aim to help in the detection and classification of invasive species in our forests.
In Portugal there is a large number of invasive species, and "despite the positive aspects that have justified sometimes the introduction of these plants, they are responsible for many adverse effects, often difficult and expensive resolution and in some cases irreversible ". According to data provided by the page "invasive" currently there are about 678 species that have been introduced by man casually or not in the national territory. The Azores and Madeira have also impressive numbers, respectively 1000 and 430 vascular plants that are present in farmland, gardens and in local forests. "Invasive" is intended to be an online platform to help you learn the "full profiles of the now considered invasive species in the country, and provides tools and information that is useful for those who wish to deal with this problem, managers with problem with invasion areas, community members of the scientific community or others interested in the subject." In the page we can also submit records of sightings, i.e. files with information on invasive plants existing or new species found by people who consult the page it is a personal and collective mapping which may be useful both to scientists also to private. This project appears in the "sequence of tasks and dissemination of projects Invader Invader II, pioneers on the problem of invasive plants in Portugal, and the project Live Science" Disclosure on Invasive Plant Species in Portugal "and also had the invaluable help of" Researchers from the School of Agriculture of Coimbra and the Centre for Functional Ecology, of the University of Coimbra, which develop research in biological invasions. "
* (Invasive Plants Not Identified)
