Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands. Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services for humanity and can generate a considerable direct or indirect income to the local communities. To meet many of the sustainable development goals, we need to move our trajectory from the current environmental destructive development to a wiser wetland use. The current article contain a proposed agenda for the Pantanal aiming the improvement of public policy for conservation in the Pantanal, one of the largest, most diverse, and continuous inland wetland in the world. We suggest and discuss a list of 11 essential interfaces between science, policy, and development in region linked to the proposed agenda. We believe that a functional science network can booster the collaborative capability to generate creative ideas and solutions to address the big challenges faced by the Pantanal wetland.

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RESUMO -O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os efeitos de sexo, sub-região, idade de registro e ano de nascimento sobre 15 medidas lineares (altura da cernelha, altura do dorso, altura da garupa, altura dos costados, comprimento da cabeça, comprimento do pescoço, comprimento dorso-lombar, comprimento da garupa, comprimento da espádua, comprimento do corpo, largura da cabeça, largura do peito, largura da anca, perímetro do tórax e perímetro da canela) do Cavalo Pantaneiro. Foram analisados dados de 1.214 animais coletados pela Associação Brasileira de Criadores do Cavalo Pantaneiro -ABCCP, no período de 1972 a 1991, usando os procedimentos PRINCOMP, CORR e GLM do SAS e o programa GENES. O sexo, a idade do animal na hora do registro, sub-regiões e ano de registro foram fontes significativas de variação. Os animais, em geral, apresentaram tamanhos pequeno a médio, sendo que os animais da sub-região de Corumbá foram, geralmente, maiores que os de outras sub-regiões. A melhor época para avaliar as medidas morfométricas dos animais seria a partir dos 4 anos de idade. As correlações entre altura de cernelha, altura do dorso e altura da garupa foram altas e positivas, porém entre as outras medidas lineares, médias e baixas. No método de agrupamento, também houve variação de tipo de animais.Palavras-chave: ano, idade, equinos, Pantanal, sub-região Evaluation of the Factors which Influence Linear Measurements of the Pantaneiro HorseABSTRACT -The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of sex, sub-region, age at registration and year of registration, on 15 linear measures (withers height, back height, croup height, midback height, head length, neck length, back-loins length, croup length, shoulder bone length, body length, head width, chest width, hip width, thorax perimeter and shin bone perimeter) of the Pantaneiro horse. Data from 1214 animals were used, registered in the Brazilian Pantaneiro Horse Association, from 1972 to 1991, and analyzed using GLM, PRINCOMP and CORR procedures of SAS and grouping procedures of the GENES program. The sex, animal age at registration, sub-region and year of registration were significant sources of variation for most of the characteristics studied. The animals of the Corumba region were in general larger than the animals from the other regions. Morphological measures should be taken on the animals from 4 years of age. Correlations between hip height, back height and shoulder height were high and positive, but between other measures were medium to low. Using the grouping method there are several grouping of animals by type which need to be further investigated. . Zootec., v.31, n.1, p.335-341, 2002 (suplemento) IntroduçãoO cavalo Pantaneiro tornou-se um fator de importância econômica e social no Pantanal MatoGrossense. Ele é essencial no manejo com o gado e capaz de suportar marchas por períodos prolongados em áreas alagadas que ocorrem na estação chuvosa, que vai de outubro a abril.O melhoramento animal implica em manipulação genética, com o envolvimento de vários aspect...

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A sustainable alternative to improve yield and the nutritive value of forage is the use of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) that release nutrients, synthesize plant hormones and protect against phytopathogens (among other mechanisms). Azospirillum genus is considered an important PGPB, due to the beneficial effects observed when inoculated in several plants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diversity of new Azospirillum isolates and select bacteria according to the plant growth promotion ability in three forage species from the Brazilian Pantanal floodplain: Axonopus purpusii, Hymenachne amplexicaulis and Mesosetum chaseae. The identification of bacterial isolates was performed using specific primers for Azospirillum in PCR reactions and partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA and nifH genes. The isolates were evaluated in vitro considering biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production. Based on the results of BNF and IAA, selected isolates and two reference strains were tested by inoculation. At 31 days after planting the plant height, shoot dry matter, shoot protein content and root volume were evaluated. All isolates were able to fix nitrogen and produce IAA, with values ranging from 25.86 to 51.26 mg N mL and 107-1038 µmol L, respectively. The inoculation of H. amplexicaulis and A. purpusii increased root volume and shoot dry matter. There were positive effects of Azospirillum inoculation on Mesosetum chaseae regarding plant height, shoot dry matter and root volume. Isolates MAY1, MAY3 and MAY12 were considered promising for subsequent inoculation studies in field conditions.