Hi, To understand what effect invasive plants on the local community, I think, one has to know what was/is the community organisations of plants existing in our natural habitats. Now people are looking at the similar habitats or places nearby. But imagine things such as climate change might have influence on the whole system/community.
We have a habit of starting research works when some visual influence on the community (defined/undefined?) is seen just as that of climate change as the hot topic now. No body can say what was the scenario in a specific area prior to such changes. When we would have a solid data on the community organisation of flora or fauna in natural habitats? Taxonomic works on plants are not going beyond the systematics of plants. When will we study the ecology, distribution, reproductive biology and threats of each species/population/community? Why no PhD problems are coming up with utmost seriousness with respect to the real scenarios in the field other than very few serious works from here and there out of thousands produced every year? Without knowing the community structure/organisation/species composition of any natural habitat, how can we say that 'something' is the result of invasion or climate change? Dear Marianne, I would suggest Mr. Bharath Sundaram, who works on Lantana invasion in BRT sanctuary in Karnataka as his PhD thesis problem, for further queries. You can contact him at <bhar...@atree.org> Regards, Giby On Aug 1, 4:48 pm, Marianne de Nazareth <mde.nazar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > "Invasive plants can affect community structure and > ecosystem processes in various ways. One of the ways in which an invasive > plant can impact ecosystem functioning is by disrupting native > plant-pollinator interactions,." says a researcher from Bangalore. > > Recently I have seen a massive growth of an invasive plant Lantana camara in > Hoskote on the outskirts of Bangalore. Does any one in the group have any > research findings that can bind this explosion of the Lantana to Climate > Change. I am interested in working a story on this but I do not have > scientific proof to support this phenomenon. > > regds, > > Marianne > > -- > Fellow with UNFCCC, UNEP & Robert Bosch Stiftung > Former Asst Editor- The Deccan Herald > Freelance Journalist > Adjunct faculty St. Joseph's College & > COMMITShttp://mariannedenazareth.blogspot.com/
