Biodiversity and its drivers and pressures of change in the wetlands of the Upper Paraguay-Guaporé Ecotone, Mato Grosso (Brazil)

- The Guaporé-Paraguay ecotone is an important link between the Amazon and the Pantanal.
- Drivers of change are agriculture and hydroelectric dams, fragmenting natural wetland systems.
- Long-term conservation can only be realized if biodiversity targets (CBD) are part of land use planning policy.