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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. For. Glob. Change
Sec. Tropical Forests
Volume 8 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2025.1412130
An invasive shrub (Lantana camara L.) alters the tree diversity and ecosystemlevel carbon pools in tropical forests of Central India
Provisionally accepted- 1 Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India
- 2 SRM University, Amaravathi, India
Invasion by exotic plant species represent a major cause of biodiversity loss and profoundly influences ecosystem processes. However, the information on the impact of shrub invasion on plant species richness, carbon dynamics of different pools in tropical dry forest ecosystems have rarely been studied in tropical dry forests in India and elsewhere. In order to fill the gap, the impacts of invasive shrub expansion on tree diversity and ecosystem carbon pools in tropical forests of Central India has been undertaken. We believe our findings will be of particular interest to the readership of Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, which includes researchers, scientists, management experts, ecologists, forest managers and policy makers. Therefore, we feel that your journal provides the most suitable platform for the dissemination of our work to the research community.
Keywords: Shrub invasion, diversity, Carbon pools, Net change, Tropical dry deciduous forests, Central India
Received: 04 Apr 2024; Accepted: 23 Jan 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Javid Ahmad Dar, SRM University, Amaravathi, India
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