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 current scenario, plant invasions are expansive and significant component 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 under the current scenario 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 changing climate supporting the invasive alien species. A comprehensive understanding of the interaction between species invasion and climate change will be supplemental in forecasting 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 the impacts of changing climate with 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.
Sachchidanand Tripathi, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
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. Hiscurrent 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, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
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. Dr. Singh has 66 Scopus publications with more than 1100 citations and a Scopus h-index of 20.
Daizy R. Batish, Ph.D.
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. Prof. Batish has 196 Scopus publications with 8245 citations and a Scopus h-index of 48.
