Among the various international instruments, CAB International plays a key role to provide technical support at international and national level in identification of new alien species, publication of distribution maps and databases. In India, invasive weeds infest extensive tracts of agricultural and ...
Invasive alien species represent one of the major factors of global loss of biodiversity and disruption of natural ecosystems. The small Indian mongoose,Urva auropunctata, is considered one of the wild carnivore species with the greatest negative impact on global biodiversity. Understanding of the fact...
IAS Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore, India) IAS Internal Audit Services IAS Invasive Alien Species (APEC subcommittee) IAS Industrial Automation Services (various locations) IAS It's a Secret IAS Impact Assessment Study (various locations) IAS Intelligent Autonomous Systems IAS Integrated Avionics...
A study of diversity of invasive alien plant species in district Yamuna Nagar of Haryana has been carried out from September 2014 to August 2015. During this session, a total of 148 plants were screened for their nativity, 90 species were found to be of exotic origin belonging to 77 genera...
Invasive alien species (IAS) threaten human livelihoods and biodiversity globally. Increasing globalization facilitates IAS arrival, and environmental changes, including climate change, facilitate IAS establishment. Here we provide the first global, spat
Local inventories for effective management of alien species: insights from the alien flora of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh, India context, we present a comprehensive inventory of alien vascular plant species across the ecologically diverse Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh (JKL) regions of ... SA Zargar,...
strumarium L., an alien invasive species, was used for the first time as a biomonitor of selected heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, and Cu) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The soil and plant samples were collected from 15 locations categorized as roads, urban, and rural sites based on origin ...
Bioclimate of tropical forests of India provide congenial habitats for invasive alien species. Lantana camara, Parthenium hysterophorus, Zornia spp, Xanthium stumarium Eupatohum glandulosum, etc. are the common exotic invasive species have invaded andspread over the forest localities of almost all fo...
Evolution1. Regions that were once occupied by the same European colonial power — such as India and Sri Lanka — tend to have similar species of non-native and invasive plants. The longer the regions were occupied, the more their populations of invasive species resemble each other, the ...
One of the major threats to native biological diversity is caused by Invasive Alien Species (IAS) which can damage or replace native plant populations as well as the health of our ecosystems. The impacts of IAS are immense, insidious, and usually irreversible. The scope and cost of biological...