CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPACTS OF INVASIVE PLANT ALIENS IN KHANDESH REGION (MAHARASHTRA, INDIA): LEGUMINOSAE

Ecologists, foresters and taxonomists are presently well now acknowledged about bioinvasion and negative impacts on native biodiversity. The exotic plants are appropriated intentionally for human welfare but some other wild taxa invade a region negligently by man or unintentionally. These exert negative impacts on local biodiversity. At this backdrop, the present authors investigated the leguminous invasive alien plants in Khandesh region of Maharashtra. Total 25 invasive alien species belonging to 13 genera of the family Leguminosae are revealed for their characteristics which render them successful in the said region. Negative impacts are also discussed relevantly in this attempt.