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Intro -- Contents -- Reviewers -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Campos Sulinos: Introduction to the Book -- 1.1 The Campos Sulinos: Continued Neglect in Conservation -- 1.2 A Brief Guide Through Terminology for the Campos Sulinos -- 1.3 Land Use Change in the Campos Sulinos and Impacts -- 1.4 Content of This Book -- 1.5 The Future of the Campos Sulinos -- References -- Part II: Setting the Scene: Origin, Environment, History of the Campos Sulinos -- Chapter 2: Geological Memories of South Brazilian Landscapes: From Precambrian Orogenesis to the Quaternary Coastal Plain -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Tremendous Geological Provinces: Records of Remnant and Recent Continents -- 2.3 The Mantiqueira Province: The Orogenesis that Structured a Supercontinent in the Precambrian -- 2.4 Paraná Province: A Complete History of the Western Gondwana Supercontinent in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras -- 2.5 The Gondwana Fragmentation and the Rising of the Meridional Plateau and the Serra do Mar in the Cenozoic Era -- 2.6 The Coastal Province: The Rise and Fall of the South Atlantic Level in the Quaternary -- References -- Chapter 3: A Look into the Past: Fossils from the Campos Sulinos Region -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Paleogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction -- 3.2.1 Permian -- 3.2.2 Triassic -- 3.2.3 Jurassic/Cretaceous -- 3.2.4 Pleistocene -- 3.3 Biodiversity and Paleoecological Reconstruction of Fauna and Flora -- 3.3.1 Permian -- 3.3.2 Triassic -- 3.3.3 Juro-Cretaceous -- 3.3.4 Pleistocene -- 3.4 Summary and Conclusions -- 3.4.1 Earlier Ecosystems -- 3.4.2 Pleistocene and Modern Ecosystems -- References -- Chapter 4: Dynamics of South Brazilian Grasslands During the Late Quaternary -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The South Brazilian Grassland Region -- 4.3 Reconstruction of Past Vegetation and Environments.

The effects of Brazil's political crisis on science funding necessary for biodiversity conservation are likely to be global. Brazil is not only the world's most biodiverse nation, it is responsible for the greater part of the Amazon forest, which regulates the climate and provides rain to much of southern South America. Brazil was a world leader in satellite monitoring of land-use change, in-situ biodiversity monitoring, reduction in tropical-forest deforestation, protection of indigenous lands, and a model for other developing nations. Coordinated public responses will be necessary to prevent special-interest groups from using the political crisis to weaken science funding, environmental legislation and law enforcement. © 2018 Magnusson, Grelle, Marques, Rocha, Dias, Fontana, Bergallo, Overbeck, Vale, Tomas, Cerqueira, Collevatti, Pillar, Malabarba, Lins-e-Silva, Neckel-Oliveira, Martinelli, Akama, Rodrigues, Silveira, Scariot and Fernandes.

In the middle of a political and fiscal crisis, the Brazilian government is applying successive budget cuts, including in science funding. Recent cuts radically affect research programs on biodiversity that are crucial components for the design and monitoring of public policies for nature conservation and sustainable development. We analyze the consequences of such cuts on the Research Program on Biodiversity (PPBio), the largest biodiversity research network in Brazil (626 researchers, nine networks in all Brazilian biomes). Brazil holds a substantial part of the world's biodiversity and of tropical forests that play a significant role for regional and global climate stability. If underfunding is maintained, the dismantling of the Brazilian PPBio will have consequences that go beyond biodiversity knowledge itself but affect society as a whole. Brazil will likely fail to reach the National Targets for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and it will be difficult to fulfill the restoration target of the Brazilian NDC and to advance with the sustainable development goals. © 2017 Associação Brasileira de Ciência Ecológica e Conservação