Acronyms
| ANSTF | Aquatic Species Nuisance Task Force |
| APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| APWG | Alien Plant Working Group |
| ARS | Agricultural Research Service |
| BBS | Breeding Bird Survey |
| BCDC | Biological Control Documentation Center |
| BRD | Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management |
| CABI | CAB International |
| CAPS | Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey |
| CENR | Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources |
| DIAGDATA | Wildlife Health Diagnostics Database |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOI | Department of the Interior |
| EFPISNA | Exotic Forest Pest Information System for North America |
| EPIZOO | Wildlife Health Epizootiological Database |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FICMNEW | Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds |
| FNW | Federal Noxious Weeds |
| FS | United States Forest Service |
| GEF | Global Environmental Facility |
| GISP | Global Invasive Species Programme |
| GPPIS | Global Plant Pest Information System |
| GRIN | Germplasm Resources Information Network |
| HEAR | Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project |
| IABIN | Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| INHS | Illinois Natural History Survey |
| IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention |
| IRL | Indian River Lagoon |
| ISSG | Invasive Species Specialist Group |
| ITIS | Integrated Taxonomic Information System |
| IUCN | World Conservation Union, formerly International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
| MGD | Microbial Germplasm Database |
| NANIAD | North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database |
| NAPIS | National Agricultural Pest Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey |
| NAS | National Science Foundation |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NBCI | National Biological Control Institute |
| NBII | National Biological Information Infrastructure |
| NCPI | Native Plant Conservation Initiative |
| NCDA&CS | North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services |
| NIS | Nonindigenous Species |
| NMNH | National Museum of Natural History |
| NPS | National Park Service |
| NRCS | Natural Resources Conservation Service |
| OIE | Office International des Epizooties |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
| OTA | Office of Technology Assessment |
| PPQ | Plant Protection and Quarantine |
| RMF | Charles Valetine Riley Memorial Foundation |
| ROBO | Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the U.S. and Territories |
| SCOPE | Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment |
| SEL | Systematic Entomology Laboratory |
| SERC | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center |
| SIDS | Small Island Developing States |
| SNOMED | The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine |
| STS | Slow-the-Spread |
| SWEMP | Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Database |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Program |