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.

Environmental conditions such as temperature, soil, photoperiodic factors and precipitation can determine the physical environment favoring the occurrence of given species and interfere with the reproductive period of plants. This work involved monthly excursions to a slope in the Serra de Maracaju between December 2009 and November 2010. Samples were collected in eight 25 x 50 m plots, transverse to the slope, totaling 1 ha sampled. Floristic richness included 79 species distributed into 58 genera and 31 families. Floristic Similarity Analysis and Principal Component Analysis showed the occurrence of two plant formations on the slope: seasonal deciduous forest and cerradão on the eutrophic soil of the slope. Flowering and fruiting occured in the rainy season; correlation with rainfall, mean temperature and photoperiod were negative for flowering and positive for fructification. Trees and bushes presented uniform flowering and a moderately seasonal fructification, which is unexpected in seasonal environments. We discuss the implications of the patterns found and make comparisons with others studies.

-(Floristic survey of the herbaceous layer of a cerrado woodland remnant in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil). The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian morphoclimatic domain. It very rich in species, many endemic but it is also influenced by surrounding phytogeographic domains. The Cerrado, particularly cerrado woodland, is vulnerable to changes in climate and soil and to wildfires. Based on the avaliation of the richness of the herbaceous of the cerrado woodland of an urban RPPN want to answer the following questions: What is the growth habit, biological form and dispersal syndrome predominant? These species are exclusive of Cerrado phytogeographical domain? Samples were collected from May 2007 to June 2008 in a remnant of cerrado woodland on the RPPN/UFMS, Campo Grande, MS. We found 59 species, 49 genera and 17 families. The families most representative were Fabaceae (15 species), Poaceae (12) and Asteraceae (seven). Predominated the erect herbs (83%), hemicryptophyte (59%) and autochorich (61%). About distribution of species in Brazilian phytogeographic domains, 12% are exclusive to Cerrado and 16% are in Cerrado, Amazônia, Caatinga, Mata Atlântica and Pampa. Key words: flora, floristic survey, herbs, savannah RESUMO -(Florística do estrato herbáceo de um remanescente de cerradão em Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil). O Cerrado é o segundo maior domínio morfoclimático brasileiro. O Cerrado é o segundo maior domínio morfoclimático brasileiro. Esta formação é rica em espécies, recebe influência dos domínios fitogeográficos circunvizinhos. O Cerrado, particularmente o cerradão, é vulnerável às mudanças de clima, solo e queimadas. Com base na avaliação da riqueza do estrato herbáceo do cerradão de uma RPPN urbana pretende-se responder as seguintes questões: Qual o hábito de crescimento, forma biológica e síndrome de dispersão predominantes? As espécies avaliadas são exclusivas do domínio fitogeográfico do Cerrado? As coletas foram realizadas de maio de 2007 a junho de 2008 em um remanescente de cerradão da RPPN/UFMS, Campo Grande, MS. Encontramos 59 espécies, 49 gêneros e 17 famílias. As famílias mais representativas foram Fabaceae (15 espécies), Poaceae (12) e Asteraceae (sete). Predominaram as herbáceas eretas (83%), hemicriptófitas (59%) e autocóricas (61%). Em relação à distribuição nos domínios fitogeográficos brasileiros observamos que 12% das espécies são exclusivas de Cerrado e 16% ocorrem no Cerrado, Amazônia, Caatinga, Mata Atlântica e Pampa. Palavras-chave: Cerrado, ervas, flora, levantamento florístico

Question:Fire and flood act as ecological filters on vegetation, either separately or combined, and cause morphological and physiological changes. Hence, they influence the composition and structure of plant communities. Since evidence strongly suggests that they are important filters operating in the system, we asked if fire, flood intensity, and their interaction could be related to variation in the functional traits of studied trees.Study Site: Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Methods:We sampled 14 individuals (totaling 280) of the 20 most representative trees in 24 forest patches along the flooding gradient and measured functional traits related to allocation of resources and protection in response to these filters. We also assessed leaf and soil nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium levels.Results: Along the flooding gradient, the studied tree species showed a tendency toward decreasing specific leaf area (SLA), as well as leaf nitrogen concentrations, whereas leaf thickness and leaf dry matter content (LDMC) increased. In burned areas, LDMC and leaf nitrogen exhibited the opposite tendency and decreased along the flooding gradient. Leaf thickness (LT) showed less increase in burned areas, while SLA had less decrease. Relative Bark Thickness (RBT) increased along the flooding gradient only after fire. Soil nitrogen decreased along the flooding gradient without an effect of fire. Conclusions:Since LDMC is a proxy of flammability, the probability of burning decreases after each fire event, while the most flooded environments become less fireprone. In burned environments, the differences in the allocation of resources (SLA and LT) diminish along the flooding gradient, indicating that leaf behavior is almost the same post-fire. RBT increases with increased flooding only after a fire, contributing to oxygen exchange during floods to protect the bark against fire. The interaction between fire and flood causes tree species to invest in structures for protection and resistance to fire, as well as retain nutrients. K E Y W O R D S ecological filters, environmental factors, floodplain, functional diversity, Pantanal 522 |

The distributions of species of Fabaceae are strongly related to the soil. Their presence can alter restrictive conditions and favour the establishment of other species. However, it is still not known how the relationship between species of Fabaceae and edaphic factors interact in structuring woody Chaco vegetation. In this context, we aimed to test the hypothesis that restrictive edaphic conditions can explain the difference in floristic patterns of two types of vegetation through their species representativeness of Fabaceae. We analysed floristic consistency between wooded and forested Chaco to address how spatial and environment components might explain differences between them along with the effects of the interaction between Fabaceae and the soil. We observed that the association between environmental and spatial variables was more important than any individual factor in explaining the structuring of the communities. Both the percentage of species of Fabaceae present and the soil influence the structure of the two types of vegetation. Species of Fabaceae have greater potential as indicators in the wooded Chaco. Therefore, we suggest the interaction between soil types and species of Fabaceae plays a role during the structuring of the communities through the establishment of these species in more restrictive soils.

We characterized taxonomic and functional differences between two vegetation physiognomies in the Brazilian Chaco, namely chaco woodland (CW) and chaco forest (CF), in order to understand which abiotic and biotic mechanisms underlie the establishment of different physiognomies. We characterized the vegetation physiognomies by comparing woody species composition, richness and diversity and functional diversity between CW and CF plots. We also measured soil variables to characterize abiotic factors related to the different physiognomies. Species richness and diversity and soil nutrient values were higher in CF. Leaf succulence and nitrogen content were higher in CW, while height, leaf area, and specific leaf area were higher in CF. The standardized effect size (SES) of functional richness was higher in CW, but the SES of functional dispersion did not differ between CF and CW. We observed a diversity gradient related to soil fertility. Traits of species in CW were related to adaptations to poor soils, while in CF floristic composition showed a prevalence of species with more attributes related to competition for light. Thus, the structure of the floristic community in CW is likely related to an environmental filter, while competition for resources prevails in CF.

Our objective was to inventory the flora of aquatic macrophytes and their life forms, and to determine the species similarity in different water bodies. Sampling of the vegetation was carried out in 333 plots of 0.5 x 0.5 m along ten transect lines on a boat to best cover the studied areas. Poaceae (18.9%), Cyperaceae (9.4%), Fabaceae, Onagraceae, and Pontederiaceae (7.5% each) were the most represented families. Emergent (56.6%), free floating (20.8%), rooted floating (18.9%), and amphibious (13.2%) were the most common life forms. We observed dissimilarity between most sampled points. We conclude from the inventory of aquatic macrophytes that the most prevalent species are common to other similar physiognomies in the Pantanal and the prevalent life forms corroborate the importance of flood in this environment, since they are typical of plants adapted to the flooded and dry transition. Even though the species richness is comparable to other areas, the plant communities inventoried separately are heterogeneous and respond in distinct ways to local environmental conditions.

O hábito de realizar uma boa higiene pessoal é iessencial para a qualidade de vida, pois auxilia na prevenção de doenças e no aumento da autoestima do indivíduo. Desse modo, objetivou-se sensibilizar crianças e adolescentes em risco social sobre a importância da lavagem das mãos para prevenção de doenças, principalmente em tempos de pandemia da COVID-19. Este trabalho é um relato de experiência da oficina de higiene pessoal desenvolvida durante o projeto de Extensão Ferramentas Socioambientais em Prol da Saúde, da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. A oficina de Higiene Pessoal foi realizada no Projeto Social Escolinha Tia More, situado no bairro Jardim Canguru, Campo Grande -MS, Brasil. Aplicou-se atividades lúdicas com músicas tocadas no violão, dinâmicas com as crianças e participantes envolvidos, jogos e brincadeiras para explicar noções relativas à higiene pessoal. Ao final da oficina, todos ganharam sabonetes e esponjas para o uso pessoal diário. As atividades realizadas geraram interatividade, estimulando a curiosidade sobre o tema.