Invasive Weed Species in Arable Soil Seed Bank in Serbia

Abstract

In the last 100 years, the number of invasive species has been increasing in many parts of the world, as a result of the development of trade, transport, tourism, climate change etc. The most susceptible to invasion are areas that are under strong anthropogenic influence: agricultural areas and urban and industrialised zones. Invasive processes are very complex, not easy to predict and damages can be great and manifest through changes in biodiversity, in the chemical composition of the soil, competitive reactions between native and alien invasive species. In this research is explanation how invasive species changes the soil weed seed bank in the arable land of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad.