Impact of invasion of exotic plant <I>Alternanthera philoxeroides</I> on inter-species association and stability of native plant community

Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.

“…In China, A. philoxeroides has been shown to decrease the stability of the plant community and, over time, permanently displace native species (Guo & Wang, 2009). In India, Chatterjee & Dewanji (2014) showed that A. philoxeroides reduced macrophyte species richness by up to 30% when the infestation was high.…”