Impact Assesment On An Invasive Species Lantana Camara On Indigenous Species Composition And Socio-economic Environment Around Adama And Bishofitu Areas Ethiopia

Impact assessment of Lantana camara L. on indigenous species composition and socioeconomicrnenvironment was carried around Aroge Adama, Soloqe and Bishfitu areas, Ethiopia. Fifty-four 5mrnx 5m releve’s were systematically sampled across 3 main transects laid 50m from the left side ofrnthe main road. In order to reduce the effects of human interference, the sites selected were, asrnmuch as possible, far away from the main road. The releve’s were equally distributed for the threernstudy sites. In each site equal number of releve’s with & without Lantana camara were sampledrnfrom the same habitat types. All indigenous species in all non-invaded and along with Lantanarncamara in all invaded releve’s were counted, identified & recorded. Diversity & richness wasrnanalyzed using Shannon-Weiner species diversity & richness index. Herbivory was found to be thernmost prevalent form of disturbance. ANOVA results at p

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