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Botanical Journeys into the Western Australian Deserts

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Authors:
  1. Sandro Pignatti

    1. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  2. Erika Pignatti Wikus

    1. Formerly at University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  • Provides an overview of the W.A. desert vegetation which was missing in scientific literature
  • Includes ca. 400 original sketches drawn from live or herbarium specimen
  • Acts as a basis for further studies for the conservation of biodiversity of this unique environment

Part of the book series: Geobotany Studies (GEOBOT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Explorers and Botany

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 1-32

  3. Our Expeditions Through Personal Memories

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 33-37

  4. Flora

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 39-123

  5. Plant Communities

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 125-155

  6. Water and Aborigines

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 157-161

  7. Man and Vegetation—Conservation

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 163-165

  8. The Pignatti Rockholes

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 167-173

  9. Sketches

    • Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus
    Pages 175-438

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 439-441
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About this book

The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants. Nine expeditions through the Southwest of Western Australia over a period of 15 years triggered the interest of the authors to explore also some deserts in the region, which leads to three further excursions into the sandy dunes of the desert. Observations of plant life in the deserts focused not only on identifying plants, but also on gaining some understanding of the aboriginal desert people of centuries past, and their own survival strategies in such extreme conditions. Also part of the Canning Stock Route was followed and explored, but the most rewarding and interesting finds were done criss-crossing the desert away from highways, tracks, and paths. The most remote areas showed species richness and surviving strategies which by far exceeded expectations.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Sandro Pignatti

  • Formerly at University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Erika Pignatti Wikus

About the authors

Sandro Pignatti is Emeritus Professor of Ecology, “La Sapienza” University, Rome (Italy). He is the author of more than 400 scientific publications on plant communities in the Mediterranean area, vegetation analysis, urban ecology and landscape, ecosystems, biodiversity, environment, and society. Among the books  he authored or co-authored are the Flora d'Italia (1st ed., 1982, three volumes; 2nd ed., 2017-2019, four volumes) and Plant Life of the Dolomites (Springer, 2015).

He is among the founders of the International Association for Vegetation Science; member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, the Accademia delle scienze di Torino, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), honorary member of the Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates of the universities of Uppsala and Palermo, the gold medal of OPTIMA in 1983, the Gambrinus prize 2000 for Ecology, and the Reinhold Tuexen prize in 2012.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Botanical Journeys into the Western Australian Deserts

  • Authors: Sandro Pignatti, Erika Pignatti Wikus

  • Series Title: Geobotany Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85329-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85328-0Published: 11 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85331-0Published: 12 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85329-7Published: 10 November 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2198-2562

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-2570

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 441

  • Number of Illustrations: 288 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, Anthropology

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