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The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil) - World's Largest Wetlands (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil) - World's Largest Wetlands (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Monographiae Biologicae, 73
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For a naturalist and limnologist, the Pantanal has the extreme
fascination of an "ultima Thule" ofundisturbed and little known
wilderness. The scientific world at large is almost unaware of its
richness. In an age when scientific research is overstretched
because of lack of funds and the hands are full of
urgentconservationtasks, it is the amateurtourist who unveils the
beauty and the interestof this largest wetland ofthe world. I had
the privilege of an outsider, well enough familiarized with Brazil,
its language and scientific life, but independent enough of the
daily chores of a local academic career. For nearly 20 years I have
been a faithful sci- entific tourist to this subcontinent. My
academic liberty gave me the unique opportunity to try to
synthesize in English the knowledge about Brazilian environments
little known abroad. My first suchendeavourhas been"Soore- tama -
the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil". Dealing now with the Pantanal,
I wish to pay tribute to the many Brazilian colleagues who under
dire and often precarious conditions have advanced the knowledge
related to the Pan- tanal. By reviewing their many reports and
papers written in Portuguese and bringing them to the knowledge of
the international scientific community, I believe that I am doing a
useful service. First of all, I have to thank Prof. Vera Lucia
Imperatriz Fonseca, the Head of the Department of General Ecology
at the University of Sao Paulo, for providingme during the years,
the academic basefrom which I couldoperate.
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