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Flora and Vegetation of the Pantanal Wetland

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Editors:
  1. Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior

    1. Instituto de Biociências, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil

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  2. Arnildo Pott

    1. Instituto de Biociências, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil

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  • The first English-language book focused on the vegetation of Pantanal wetland
  • Focused on the unique phytogeographic diversity of Pantanal
  • Presents the state of the art knowledge and bring novel, unpublished research data on the Pantanal Wetland

Part of the book series: Plant and Vegetation (PAVE, volume 18)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. General Features of the Pantanal Wetland

    • Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Arnildo Pott
    Pages 1-10

  3. Classification and Mapping of the Vegetation of the Brazilian Pantanal

    • João dos Santos Vila da Silva, Arnildo Pott, Jô Vinícius Barrozo Chaves
    Pages 11-38

  4. Flora of the Pantanal

    • Arnildo Pott, Vali Joana Pott
    Pages 39-228

  5. Aquatic Plants

    • Vali Joana Pott, Arnildo Pott
    Pages 229-288

  6. Leguminosae in the Pantanal

    • Ângela Lúcia Bagnatori Sartori, Giovani Carlos Andrella, Luan Hernandes Pinho Nogueira, Vivian Almeida Assunção, Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani
    Pages 289-314

  7. Lichenized Ascomycota from the Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil

    • Luciana da Silva Canêz, Natália Mossmann Koch, Thiago Dias Barbosa, Marcos Junji Kitaura, Adriano Afonso Spielmann, Neli Kika Honda et al.
    Pages 315-363

  8. Hydrology and Vegetation Base for Classification of Macrohabitats of the Brazilian Pantanal for Policy-Making and Management

    • Catia Nunes da Cunha, Ivan Bergier, Walfrido Moraes Tomas, Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Sandra Aparecida Santos, Vivian Almeida Assunção et al.
    Pages 365-391

  9. Monodominant Stands in the Pantanal

    • Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Rosa Helena da Silva, Darlene Gris, Evaldo Benedito de Souza, Maíra da Rocha, Daniel Armando Manrique Pineda et al.
    Pages 393-442

  10. Composition and Distribution of Woody and Palm Vegetation in the Pantanal Wetland

    • Evaldo Benedito de Souza, Arnildo Pott, Florian Wittmann, Pia Parolin, Heike Markus-Michalczyk, Marcelo Leandro Bueno et al.
    Pages 443-469

  11. Natural Pastures of the Pantanal: Diversity, Productive Potential and Dynamics

    • Sandra Aparecida Santos, Evaldo Luis Cardoso, José Francisco Montenegro Valls, Arnildo Pott
    Pages 471-489

  12. Woody Encroachment and Its Control in Periodically Flooded Grasslands of the Pantanal, a Large Brazilian Wetland

    • Cátia Nunes da Cunha, Fernando Henrique Barbosa da Silva, Cândida Pereira da Costa, Wolfgang Johannes Junk
    Pages 491-512

  13. Paleovegetation Inferences and Landscape Evolution in the Pantanal Basin

    • Carlos D’Apolito, Mariza Gomes Rodrigues, Barbara Fernandes Becker, Silane Aparecida Ferreira Silva-Caminha
    Pages 513-533

  14. Synthesis of the Present Knowledge on Plant Phenology of the Pantanal

    • Camila Aoki, Rogério Rodrigues Faria, Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Arnildo Pott
    Pages 535-549

  15. Temporal Patterns of Pollination and Seed Dispersal in Capões of the Southern Pantanal

    • Vanessa Gabrielle Nóbrega Gomes, Marlies Sazima, Rafael Arruda, Erich Fischer, Andréa Cardoso Araujo
    Pages 551-577

  16. Soil Seed Banks in the Pantanal Wetland

    • Arnildo Pott, Francielli Bao, Evaldo Benedito de Souza
    Pages 579-607

  17. Plant Morphoanatomical Adaptations to Environmental Conditions of the Pantanal Wetland

    • Edna Scremin-Dias, Jane Rodrigues da Silva, Gisele Catian, Vitoria Silva Fabiano, Rosani do Carmo de Oliveira Arruda
    Pages 609-636

  18. Metabolomics Applied to Understand and Determine Ecological and Evolutionary Relationships, and Medicinal Potential of Plants from Pantanal

    • Vanessa Samúdio Santos-Zanuncio, Diomar Verçosa, Darlene Gris, Denise Brentan Silva, Carlos Alexandre Carollo
    Pages 637-660

  19. Fire, Flood and Pantanal Vegetation

    • Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Alexandre de Matos Martins Pereira, Jens Oldeland, Pia Parolin, Arnildo Pott
    Pages 661-688

  20. Wild Food Plants of the Pantanal: Past, Present, and Future

    • Ieda Maria Bortolotto, Paulo Robson de Souza, Arnildo Pott, Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior
    Pages 689-738
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About this book

This book will present information on Pantanal vegetation including an updated checklist of flora, useful plants, ecological aspects and some topics never published for this region, such as lichens. It aims to be a reference for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students as well as stakeholders and decision makers interested in the flora and vegetation of one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Biociências, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil

    Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Arnildo Pott

About the editors

GERALDO ALVES DAMASCENO JUNIOR is a biologist, has a PhD from the State University of Campinas (Brazil) and did his post doc at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He is a Professor of Botany, Phytosociology and Biogeography at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul since 1990. His research is focused on the relationship between vegetation and soil, inundation and fire. 

ARNILDO POTT is an agronomist, has a PhD from the University of Queensland (Australia) and did his postdoc at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK). He is a Senior Visiting Professor of Botany at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul since 2008. His research is focused on vegetation dynamics of Pantanal wetland, savanna, natural grasslands, and soil seed back and his publication record can be seen here. Dr. Pott is the author of a pioneering, successful book on the plants of Pantanal Wetland, published in Portuguese in 1994 (Plantas do Pantanal) and contributed a chapter to the book Dynamics of the Pantanal Wetland in South America (Springer, 2015).

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