Tabasum Hassan

University of Kashmir · Department of Botany

"Trees and Shrubs of Kashmir: A Phenology Field Guide" is a pioneering publication that provides a comprehensive introduction to the phenology of common trees and shrubs found in the Kashmir Himalaya. This field guide presents pictorial phenological calendars of 100 species, making it a first-of-its-kind practical tool for assessing and monitoring...

Invasive alien species (IAS) are currently considered as one of the major causes of global environmental change. To manage the IAS, it is crucial to identify the different environmental and associated anthropogenic drivers that contribute to invasion of alien species in non-native regions. Although multiple drivers of invasion have been identified...

Climate warming-driven temporal shifts in phenology are widely recognised as the foremost foot- print of global environmental change. In this regard, concerted research efforts are being made worldwide to monitor and assess the plant phenological responses to climate warming across species, ecosystems and seasons. Here, we present a global synthesi...

Invasive alien species are currently considered as one of the dominant drivers of global environmental change. Till now, the majority of studies have focused on single or a few traits of alien species that facilitate their invasion. Also inclusion of all the traits which determine the transition of aliens along the different stages of invasion cont...

Worldwide, invasive alien species (IAS) cause significant ecological and economic impacts. To meet the Target-6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework that deals with IAS, it is crucial to fill the geographical knowledge gaps in invasion research. Towards this end, making available inventories of IAS from data-deficient regions of th...

Experimental evidences in support of climate warming–driven phenological shifts are still scarce, particularly from the developing world. Here, we investigated the effect of experimental warming on flowering phenology of selected woody plants in Kashmir Himalaya. We selected the twigs of four congeneric pairs of temperate woody species (Prunus, Pop...

Veronica polita subsp. lilacina (T.Yamaz.) T.Yamaz. is reported as a new distribution record for India from the Kashmir Himalaya. A detailed description, photographic illustrations and comparison of diagnostic characters with the type subspecies are provided to validate the new record and facilitate easy field identification.

In an age of anthropocene, shifting plant phenology is one of the most striking biological indicators of global environmental change. Majority of the studies reporting shifts in plant phenology are available from the North America and Europe and largely scarce from the developing world, including the Himalaya; and studies integrating multiple metho...