Overview
- 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)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Sandro Pignatti
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Formerly at University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Erika Pignatti Wikus
About the authors
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