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This edited book provides an ensemble of contemporary research related to the challenges, impacts and precautionary measures for tackling plant invasions in the context of changing climate in different regions of the world.
In the current scenario, plant invasions are expansive and significant components of anthropogenic global climate change. Temperature variations may compromise the adaptability of native species, thereby stressing them and decreasing the resistance potential of natural communities to invasion. Invasive alien species have been suggested as a major threat to biodiversity. It is also predicted that increasing disturbances or extreme events such as fires, floods, cyclones, storms, heat-waves, droughts, etc. will be direct consequences of climate change and support invasive alien species. A comprehensive understanding of the interaction between species invasion and climate change will add to forecasts of future shifts in biodiversity. Further, different predictive models indicate a plausible increase in the abundance and impact of invasive alien species which may have direct implications for future research and target-oriented policy and decision making. However, these predictions become more complicated considering the complexity of interactions between climate change and other components of global change (changes in land use, nitrogen deposition, etc.) which are affecting the distribution of native plant species, ecosystem dynamics as well as non-native/invasive species.
This book will be suitable for students (undergraduate and postgraduates) of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences; teachers, researchers, and climate change scientists in academic and research institutions. It will also be applicable to environmental management agencies, government agencies and policy makers.
Ch 1. Plant invasion and climate change: a global overview
Ch 2. Impacts of plant invasions on ecosystem functionality: a perspective for ecosystem health and ecosystem services
Ch 3. Menace of Plant Invasion: A View from Ecological Lens
Ch 4. Role of extreme climate events in amplification of plant invasion
Ch 5. Plant Invasion as Gleaned from Parasara's Vrkshayurveda
Ch 6. Water, wind, and fire: extreme climate events enhance the spread of invasive plants in sensitive North American ecosystems
Ch 7. Understanding eco-geographical relationship in invaded ranges by Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. - An intercontinental case study on Acacia invasions
Ch 8. Invasive plants in India: their adaptability, socio-ecological impacts, and response to changing climate
Ch 9. Plant invasion in an aquatic ecosystem: A new frontier under climate change
Ch 10. Plant invasion and soil processes: A mechanistic understanding
Ch 11. Plant invasion dynamics in mountain ecosystems under changing climate scenario
Ch 12. The role of epigenetics on plant invasions under climate change scenario
Ch 13. Comparative assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms for habitat suitability of Tribulus terrestris (Linn): An economically important weed
Ch 14. Strategies of plant invasion and management for the conservation and restoration of degraded poor agricultural lands
Ch 15. Plant Invasion and Climate Change: An Overview on History, Impacts and Management Practices
Ch 16. Biochar: a tool for combatting both invasive species and climate change
Ch 17. An action plan to prevent and manage alien plant invasions in India
Sachchidanand Tripathi is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology, ecophysiology and urban ecology. He has published more than 50 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with reputed international journals and publishers.
Rahul Bhadouria is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 22 papers, 22 book chapters, and 8 edited books in internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are, management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change, a perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of climate change, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology.
Priyanka Srivastava is an assistant professor at Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College (University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). She obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has published several research/review papers in reputed journals of ecology and environmental science. Her current research areas are 'Effect of invasive plant/soil organism/nutrient on the ecological properties of forest ecosystem', 'soil microbes in ecosystem functioning in a tropical dry forest under the realm of climate change' and 'Ecosystem analysis for biodiversity conservation, management and its sustainable development'.
Rishikesh Singh has worked as National Post-doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr Singh obtained his doctoral degree from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is an environmental scientist with research interests in soil carbon dynamics, land-use change and management, waste management, environmental contaminants, biochar, and carbon sequestration. He has published several research and review articles and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Frontiers, PLoS, and Springer Nature groups. He has published ten books in leading international publishers such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and CRC.
Daizy R. Batish is Professor at the Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Prof. Batish obtained her doctoral degree from Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She is a well-known researcher in the field of Invasion Ecology and has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. She has worked in different dimensions of invasion ecology such as allelopathy, phytotoxicity, species interactions, phytochemicals extraction and utilization, essential oils, etc. She has published several research and review articles and working as a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and Springer Nature groups. She has published seven books related to different dimensions of invasion ecology.
