Landscape-scale relationships between the exotic invasive shrub Lantana camara and native plants in a tropical deciduous forest in southern India

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-64

  Prasad, Ayesha E ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

fire; forest degradation; grass; rainfall; shrubs; species richness; topography; tree density; tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GIS; GRASS; HABITAT LOSS; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFALL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SLOPE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDIA;

EID: 83455250432     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467411000563     Document Type: Article

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