ARES(2014)2425342 - 22/07/2014 Organisation and running of a scientific workshop to complete selected invasive alien species (IAS) risk assessments Contractor: Natural Environment Research Council Project leaders: Helen Roy - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK; Tel: +44 1491 692252; Fax: + 44 1491 692424; Email:
[email protected] Riccardo Scalera - IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Via Mazzola 38, 00142, Rome, IT; Email:
[email protected] 1 REPORT AUTHORS Helen Roy CEH UK Riccardo Scalera ISSG Italy Olaf Booy Non-Native Species Secretariat UK Etienne Branquart Invasive Species Unit, SPW Belgium Belinda Gallardo IPE-CSIC Spain Piero Genovesi ISSG Italy Melanie Josefsson Swedish Environment Protection Agency Sweden Marianne Kettunen IEEP Finland Merike Linnamagi Nature Conservation Department, Ministry Estonia of the Environment Frances Lucy Institute of Technology, Sligo Ireland Angeliki Martinou Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus Niall Moore Non-Native Species Secretariat UK Jan Pergl Institute of Botany Czech Republic Wolfgang Rabitsch EAA Austria Wojciech Solarz Polish Academy of Sciences Poland Teodora Trichkova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Bulgaria Johan van Valkenburg NVWA Netherlands Argyro Zenetos HCMR Greece Ioannis Bazos* National and Kapodistrian University of Greece Athens Alexandros Galanidis* University of the Aegean Greece Rory Sheehan* Institute of Technology, Sligo Ireland * denotes the author did not attend the workshop or contribute to final decisions with respect to the compliance of the risk assessment to the minimum standards but made substantial contributions in providing information to address gaps on species prior to the workshop 2 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Helen Roy, Group Head and Principal Scientist, leads zoological research within the UK Biological Records Centre (part of the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), which is the UK focus for terrestrial and freshwater species recording.