Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on South American wetlands: an update

Florian Wittmann1 Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]

Ethan Householder2 MAUA Working Group, National Institute for Amazon Research – INPA, Manaus, Brazil;3 Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Astrid de Oliveira Wittmann4 Institute for Biological Sciences, Federal University of Amazonas – UFAM, Manaus

Aline Lopes2 MAUA Working Group, National Institute for Amazon Research – INPA, Manaus, Brazil

Wolfgang J Junk5 National Wetland Institute – INAU, Cuiaba, Brazil

Maria TF Piedade2 MAUA Working Group, National Institute for Amazon Research – INPA, Manaus, Brazil

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Figure 1 Annual rainfall pattern and distribution of major South American wetland types and wetlands.

Notes: 1, Llanos del Orinoco; 2, periodically flooded savannas of Roraima and Rupuni; 3, Marañon-Ucayali palm swamps; 4, Llanos de Moxos; 5, periodically flooded savannas of the Araguaia River including Bananal; 6, Pantanal of Mato Grosso. With kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media: Aquatic Sciences, Current state of knowledge regarding South America wetlands and their future under global climate change, 75, 2013, 113–131, Junk WJ,Figure 1.^Citation6

Table 1 Most important provisioning and regulating ecosystem services of South American wetlands

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Figure 2 Number and size of Ramsar sites in South America (including Trinidad and Tobago) during the period 1990–2015.

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Table 2 Number of Ramsar sites per vegetation/climate zone and type/ecosystem, their year of establishment, and their extension

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Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on South American wetlands: an update

Table 1 Most important provisioning and regulating ecosystem services of South American wetlands

Table 2 Number of Ramsar sites per vegetation/climate zone and type/ecosystem, their year of establishment, and their extension

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Table 2 Number of Ramsar sites per vegetation/climate zone and type/ecosystem, their year of establishment, and their extension

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