Author Contribution
AAK conceptualized the research idea, managed fund acquisition and project supervision. KH planned and designed the research experiment with inputs from AAK, RA and THD. KH conducted the field work with help from AAK and RA. KH carried out experiment, analyzed data and prepared figures and tables. KH and AAK led the manuscript writing with inputs from RA, MN, THD and IR. All the authors agreed to the final submitted version.
Table 1 . Soil physicochemical properties of L. vulgareinvaded and uninvaded plots at four sampling sites along an elevation gradient in Kashmir Himalaya.