Ecological Networks in Urban Forest Fragments Reveal Species Associations between Native and Invasive Plant Communities.

ABSTRACT: Forest fragments are characteristic features of many megacities that have survived the urbanisation process and are often represented by unique assemblages of flora and fauna. Such woodlands are representations of nature in the city-often dominated by non-native and invasive species that coexist with resilient native congeners and purposefully introduced flora. These forest fragments also provide significant ecosystem services to urban society and therefore, understanding their compositional patterns is of considerable importance for conservation and management. In this work, we use a complex network approach to investigate species assemblages across six distinct urban forest fragments in the South Delhi Ridge area of the National Capital Territory, India. We generate bipartite ecological

SUBMITTER: Chauhan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8879267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature