IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment, database for Chapter 4. Impact Evidence Database

This is a database described in the data management report for chapter 4 of IPBES thematic assessment on invasive alien species and their control. Provisionary Embargo: The data management report is under restricted access and embargoed until IPBES 10. Additionally, this associated database is private and is embargoed until one year after IPBES 10, but this date is subject to change. For any inquiry, please contact the technical support unit for the assessment of invasive alien species and their control ([e-mail]). Data were gathered on direct observations of impacts from published literature, including grey literature, in order to form a database on the evidence to which invasive alien species impact, negatively and positively, nature, nature's contributions to people and good quality of life for Chapter 4 of IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control. The criteria for inclusion were a published direct evidence of an impact on native species, a change in ecosystem properties, nature's contributions to people and the extent to which humans were affected through changes in their constituents of well-being.