Impact of parthenium weed invasion on plants and their soil seedbank in a subtropical grassland, central Nepal

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/22:00568649

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5141/jee.21.00083" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5141/jee.21.00083</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5141/jee.21.00083" target="_blank" >10.5141/jee.21.00083</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of parthenium weed invasion on plants and their soil seedbank in a subtropical grassland, central Nepal

Original language description

Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae, hereafter Parthenium) is an invasive alien species of global significance because of its’ negative ecological and socioeconomic impacts. This species is spreading rapidly from lowland Tarai to Middle Mountain regions in Nepal. In the present study, we analyzed the impacts of Parthenium on plant community composition including their soil seedbank in subtropical grasslands located in central Nepal. There was no significant difference in the plant species richness at different levels of Parthenium invasion whereas there was a significant change in the species composition of above ground flora due to Parthenium invasion. There was also a significant difference in species composition between soil seedbank and aboveground flora in the highly invaded plots. Parthenium was the most dominant in soil seedbank, contributing 65% to the total soil seedbank. Our study suggests that Parthenium has considerable negative impact on the native grassland flora, and the dominance of Parthenium in the soil seedbank means there is a challenge for its management. It also suggests the need of monitoring the soil seedbank dynamics while managing Parthenium weed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ecology and Environment

ISSN

2287-8327

e-ISSN

2288-1220

Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January 14

Country of publishing house

KR - KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

02

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129215473