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As spring wildflowers colour our ancient landscape, UWA Publishing has produced a timely celebration of the State's incredible flora. Plantlife on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia, a global biodiversity hotspot edited by Professor of Plant Biology Hans Lambers assembles current research about the region's flora, much of which flourishes on the sandplain's most nutrient-poor soils.

In order to conserve threatened species, the animals that depend on them and their habitats, researchers need to understand their functioning in the past and present.

This publication is a thorough revision and expansion of Kwongan - Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984) by John S. Pate and John Beard.

In his forward, Emeritus Professor John Pate, Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Plant Biology, predicts the book will "inspire and enthuse present and future generations of researchers to set their research goalposts even higher, to discover more and to make every attempt to conserve our ‘hotspot' of diversity in the south-west".

A percentage of the returns from sales of this book will support the Kwongan Foundation that was established to conserve Australia's biodiversity.