The exotic weed, Lantana camara L (Lamiales : Verbenaceae is widely considered to be one of the greatest weed concerns for Indian forests due to its capacity to establish in native plant communities. The weed is widespread in the tropical forests of India and has for many years been a basis for concern about its role in in successional processes and forest integrity. Despite the vast amount of quantitive absorvations on Lantana camara since the early 20th century, many aspects of the ecology, biology and specifically invasion ecology of the weed are unclear. These have been incidental...