Botanical Journeys into the Western Australian Deserts

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 (1^st ed., 1982, three volumes; 2^nd 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.

Explorers and Botany.- Our expeditions through personal memories.- Flora.- Plant Communities.- Water and Aborigines.- Man and Vegetation { Conservation.- The Pignatti Rockholes.- Sketches.