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The primary goal of my research is to study mechanisms and causes through which naturalized and/or nonnative plants achieve their competitive or general ecological success and influence native biodiversity and ecosystem processes, in different ecosystems ranging from deserts, grasslands, boreal and tropical forests. I am developing my research to unravel mechanisms to understand the ecological drivers and evolutionary processes influencing anthropogenic redistribution of biota. This goal fuels many of my current projects, which focus on several basic ecological processes that influence the community and ecosystem effects of exotic invasive plants. We are studying the role of novel chemicals, soil communities, soil fertility, litter dynamics, resource reallocation from defense to growth by taking biogeographic and evolutionary approaches to study biological invasions (PNAS, Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters, Nature, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Trends in Plant Science, Plant Physiology, Oikos, PLoS Biology, New Phytologist, Global Ecology & Biogeography, Soil Biology & Biochemistry).

Some Selected Publications:

  • Inderjit*, Simberloff D, Kaur H, Kalisz S and Bezemer TM. 2021. Novel chemicals engender myriad invasion mechanisms. New Phytologist(Tansley Review), 232: 1184-1200.
  • Inderjit*, Callaway RM and Meron E. 2021. Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly. Physics of Life Reviews,38: 1–24.         
  • Becerra, P., Callaway, R., Catford, J., Inderjit, Andonian, K., Luce, M., Aschehoug, E. and Montesinos, D. 2018. Inhibitory effects of Eucalyptus globulus on understory plant growth and species richness are greater in non-native regions. Global ecology & Biogeography 27, 68-76.
  • Inderjit, Catford JA, Kalisz S, Simberloff D and Wardle DA. 2017. A framework for understanding human-driven vegetation change. Oikos 126, 1687–1698.
  • Majumdar, S., Sanwal, U. and Inderjit*. 2017. Interference potential of Sorghum halepense on soil and plant seedling growth. Plant and Soil, 418: 219-230.
  • Driscoll, D.A., Barney, J.N., Hulme, P. E., Inderjit, Martin, T. G., Pauchard, A., Pyšek, P., Richardson, D. M., Riley, S., Visser, V. and Catford, J. A. 2014. New pastures plants intensify invasive species risk. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), 111: 16622-16627. [Discussed in Nature 2014, 515: 167].
  • Kaur, R., Callaway, R. M. and Inderjit. 2014. Soils and the conditional allelopathic effects of a tropical invader. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 78: 316-325.
  • Inderjit. 2012. Exotic plant invasion in the context of plant defense against herbivores. Plant Physiology 158(3): 1107-1114.
  • Inderjit, Wardle D.A., Karban R. and Callaway R.M. 2011. The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26, 655-662.
  • Gurevitch J., Fox G., Wardle G., Inderjit and Taub D. 2011. Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions. Ecology Letters 14, 407-418.
  • Inderjit, Evans H., Crocoll C., Bajpai D., Kaur R., Feng Y., Silva C., Carreón J.T., Valiente-Banuet A., Gershenzon J., and Callaway R.M. 2011. Volatile chemicals from leaf litter are associated with invasiveness of a neotropical weed in Asia. Ecology 92, 316-324.
  • Inderjit and van der Putten, W.H. 2010. Impacts of soil microbial communities on exotic plant invasion. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25, 512-519.
  • Feng YL, Lei, Y, Wang R, Callaway RM, Valiente-Banuet A, Inderjit, Li Y.-P and Zheng Y-L. 2009. Evolutionary tradeoffs for nitrogen allocation to photosynthesis versus cell walls in an invasive plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), 106, 1853-1856.
  • Mangla, S., Inderjitand Callaway, R.M. 2008. Exotic invasive plant accumulates native soil pathogens which inhibit native plants. Journal of Ecology 96, 58-67.
  • Inderjit, Callaway RM and Vivanco, J.M. 2006. Can plant biochemistry contribute to understanding of invasion ecology? Trends in Plant Science 11, 574-580.
  • Inderjit. 2006. Experimental complexities in evaluating the allelopathic activities in laboratory bioassays: a case study. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38, 256-262.
  • Inderjit. 1998. Influence of Pluchea lanceolata on selected soil properties. American Journal of Botany 85, 64-69.
  • Inderjit and Dakshini, K.M.M. 1994. Allelopathic effects of Pluchea lanceolata (Asteraceae) on characteristics of four soils and mustard and tomato growth. American Journal of Botany 81, 799-804.
  • Inderjit and Dakshini, K.M.M. 1994. Allelopathic potential of phenolics from the roots of Pluchea lanceolata. Physiologia Plantarum 92, 571-576.
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