Negative effect of litter of invasive weed Lantana camara on structure and composition of vegetation in the lower Siwalik Hills, northern India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3379-3389

  Singh, Harminder Pal ^a   Batish, Daizy R ^a   Dogra, Kuldip Singh ^b   Kaur, Shalinder ^c   Kohli, Ravinder Kumar ^a   Negi, Anjana ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Botanic Garden of Indian Republic Botanical Survey of India   (India)

^c DAV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Activated charcoal; Chemical interference; Litter amended soil; Phenolics; Rhizosphere soil; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIODIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

ALLELOPATHIC EFFECTS; HIMACHAL PRADESH , INDIA; INHIBITORY EFFECT; ORGANIC INHIBITORS; PHENOLICS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; RHIZOSPHERE SOILS;

SOILS;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ALLELOPATHY; CHARCOAL; HERB; LITTER; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WEED;

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ALBIZIA LEBBECK; ALLELOPATHY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; INDIA; LANTANA CAMARA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LITTER; PLANT STRUCTURES; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVASION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; SIWALIK HILLS;

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ALBIZIA LEBBECK; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LANTANA; PLANT WEEDS; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84900808155     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3624-x     Document Type: Article

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