Thammineni Pullaiah (retired) was a Professor of Botany in the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India. He served as President of the Indian Botanical Society and President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and was a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

• Chapter 1. Lowland wetlands of Bolivia: Landscapes, conservation and livelihoodsMónica Moraes R., Daniel Larrea-Alcázar, Daniel Villarroel, and José Daniel SotoChapter 2. Marine and Coastal Wetlands of the Colombian CaribbeanS. Millan, J.P. Caicedo-Garcia, C. Montes-Chaura, S. Pardo-Spiess, M. Hernández, D.I. Gomez-Lopez, R. Navas-Camacho, D. Guerrero, S. Herrera-Fajardo, D. Romero, T. Hoyos, A.P. Zamora, and P.C. Sierra-CorreaChapter 3. Wetlands of Ecuador: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFausto López Rodríguez, Sandra Lee Pinel, and James GruberChapter 4. Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation in the Matusagaratí Wetland ComplexDarién, Panamá - Indra CandanedoChapter 5. Human Pressure on the Pantanal: A Four-Decade Analysis of Land Cover Changes, Ecological Degradation and Future prospectsErnandes Sobreira, Thiago Ferreira Pereira, Daiana Ferreira Dias, Cleverson Ricardo Soares Viana, Josiane Santos Batista Carioca de Paula, Ana Paula Dalbem Barbosa, Acisa Raimunda de Souza, Tiago da Rocha Pedra, Maísa Consuelo dos Santos, Derick Victor de Souza Campos, Adriano Marcos Romano, Sarian Kosten, Claumir Cesar Muniz, Solange Kimie Ikeda-Castrillon, and Wilkinson Lopes LázaroChapter 6. Amazonian Freshwater Wetlands: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFlorian WittmannChapter 7. Wetlands of MexicoJosé Luis Marín-MuñizChapter 8. Review of wetlands in Paraguay, ecological and economic importanceBonifacia Benitez and Oscar FeltesChapter 9. Subtropical extra-Andean wetlands of ArgentinaRubén D. Quintana, Patricia Kandus, Roberto F. Bó, Francisco Firpo Lacoste, Alejandro Giraudo, Zuleica Marchetti, Priscilla Gail Minotti, Leticia Rodríguez and Facundo Schivo

Thammineni Pullaiah (retired) was a Professor of Botany in the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India. He served as President of the Indian Botanical Society and President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and was a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

• Chapter 1. Lowland wetlands of Bolivia: Landscapes, conservation and livelihoodsMónica Moraes R., Daniel Larrea-Alcázar, Daniel Villarroel, and José Daniel SotoChapter 2. Marine and Coastal Wetlands of the Colombian CaribbeanS. Millan, J.P. Caicedo-Garcia, C. Montes-Chaura, S. Pardo-Spiess, M. Hernández, D.I. Gomez-Lopez, R. Navas-Camacho, D. Guerrero, S. Herrera-Fajardo, D. Romero, T. Hoyos, A.P. Zamora, and P.C. Sierra-CorreaChapter 3. Wetlands of Ecuador: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFausto López Rodríguez, Sandra Lee Pinel, and James GruberChapter 4. Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation in the Matusagaratí Wetland ComplexDarién, Panamá - Indra CandanedoChapter 5. Human Pressure on the Pantanal: A Four-Decade Analysis of Land Cover Changes, Ecological Degradation and Future prospectsErnandes Sobreira, Thiago Ferreira Pereira, Daiana Ferreira Dias, Cleverson Ricardo Soares Viana, Josiane Santos Batista Carioca de Paula, Ana Paula Dalbem Barbosa, Acisa Raimunda de Souza, Tiago da Rocha Pedra, Maísa Consuelo dos Santos, Derick Victor de Souza Campos, Adriano Marcos Romano, Sarian Kosten, Claumir Cesar Muniz, Solange Kimie Ikeda-Castrillon, and Wilkinson Lopes LázaroChapter 6. Amazonian Freshwater Wetlands: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFlorian WittmannChapter 7. Wetlands of MexicoJosé Luis Marín-MuñizChapter 8. Review of wetlands in Paraguay, ecological and economic importanceBonifacia Benitez and Oscar FeltesChapter 9. Subtropical extra-Andean wetlands of ArgentinaRubén D. Quintana, Patricia Kandus, Roberto F. Bó, Francisco Firpo Lacoste, Alejandro Giraudo, Zuleica Marchetti, Priscilla Gail Minotti, Leticia Rodríguez and Facundo Schivo

Thammineni Pullaiah (retired) was a Professor of Botany in the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India. He served as President of the Indian Botanical Society and President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and was a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

• Chapter 1. Lowland wetlands of Bolivia: Landscapes, conservation and livelihoodsMónica Moraes R., Daniel Larrea-Alcázar, Daniel Villarroel, and José Daniel SotoChapter 2. Marine and Coastal Wetlands of the Colombian CaribbeanS. Millan, J.P. Caicedo-Garcia, C. Montes-Chaura, S. Pardo-Spiess, M. Hernández, D.I. Gomez-Lopez, R. Navas-Camacho, D. Guerrero, S. Herrera-Fajardo, D. Romero, T. Hoyos, A.P. Zamora, and P.C. Sierra-CorreaChapter 3. Wetlands of Ecuador: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFausto López Rodríguez, Sandra Lee Pinel, and James GruberChapter 4. Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation in the Matusagaratí Wetland ComplexDarién, Panamá - Indra CandanedoChapter 5. Human Pressure on the Pantanal: A Four-Decade Analysis of Land Cover Changes, Ecological Degradation and Future prospectsErnandes Sobreira, Thiago Ferreira Pereira, Daiana Ferreira Dias, Cleverson Ricardo Soares Viana, Josiane Santos Batista Carioca de Paula, Ana Paula Dalbem Barbosa, Acisa Raimunda de Souza, Tiago da Rocha Pedra, Maísa Consuelo dos Santos, Derick Victor de Souza Campos, Adriano Marcos Romano, Sarian Kosten, Claumir Cesar Muniz, Solange Kimie Ikeda-Castrillon, and Wilkinson Lopes LázaroChapter 6. Amazonian Freshwater Wetlands: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and ConservationFlorian WittmannChapter 7. Wetlands of MexicoJosé Luis Marín-MuñizChapter 8. Review of wetlands in Paraguay, ecological and economic importanceBonifacia Benitez and Oscar FeltesChapter 9. Subtropical extra-Andean wetlands of ArgentinaRubén D. Quintana, Patricia Kandus, Roberto F. Bó, Francisco Firpo Lacoste, Alejandro Giraudo, Zuleica Marchetti, Priscilla Gail Minotti, Leticia Rodríguez and Facundo Schivo