| Title |
Invasive alien plant species dynamics in the Himalayan region under climate change
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ambio, January 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-018-1017-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pramod Lamsal, Lalit Kumar, Achyut Aryal, Kishor Atreya |
| Abstract |
Climate change will impact the dynamics of invasive alien plant species (IAPS). However, the ability of IAPS under changing climate to invade mountain ecosystems, particularly the Himalayan region, is less known. This study investigates the current and future habitat of five IAPS of the Himalayan region using MaxEnt and two representative concentration pathways (RCPs). Two invasive species, Ageratum conyzoides and Parthenium hysterophorus, will lose overall suitable area by 2070, while Ageratina adenophora, Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara will gain suitable areas and all of them will retain most of the current habitat as stable. The southern Himalayan foothills will mostly conserve species ecological niches, while suitability of all the five species will decrease with increasing elevation. Such invasion dynamics in the Himalayan region could have impacts on numerous ecosystems and their biota, ecosystem services and human well-being. Trans-boundary response strategies suitable to the local context of the region could buffer some of the likely invasion impacts. |
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| Finland | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Researcher | 29 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 26 | 15% |
| Unknown | 56 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 31% |
| Environmental Science | 29 | 17% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Engineering | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 9% |
| Unknown | 61 | 36% |
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