Species level data on pathways of introduction and date of first record used in the report 'The status of biological invasions and their management in South Africa in 2025'

These are the species level data on pathways of introduction and date of first record used in the report: SANBI and CIB (2026) The status of biological invasions and their management in South Africa in 2025. South African National Biodiversity Institute and Centre for Invasion Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20204153 For enquiries contact: IAS.report.SANBI@gmail.comFor a full description of the indicators used in the report and for some of the coding of the confidence levels used below see the indicator factsheets available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17739010 [first described in Wilson et al. (2018)]See metadata for the species list for further details on certain columns: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7433112Details on the methods followed are available in the supplementary materials of the report. Funding for the report was primarily provided by the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE), noting that this report does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DFFE or its employees.