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Confronting the Green Threat: An Updated Inventory of India’s Alien Plant Species

2025-12-12

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Alien plant species increasingly shape India’s ecosystems, yet national-scale assessments integrating all invasion stages remain limited. We compiled a comprehensive checklist of India’s alien vascular flora, documenting 1,022 wild alien species and 1,725 species including cultivated aliens, standardized using APG IV taxonomy and validated through global databases. These species consist...

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Literature Corpus work: 05ae5fc2-6533-52a9-9af8-0e5829fbbba2
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8246702/v1

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