1/5 #TropiCon21 Large rivers are integral to Amazonia, and their associated wetlands are a key maintainer of biodiversity and carbon cycling & they are essential to support the majority of people living in the Amazon. Yet wetlands are rarely included in climate-ecosystem models. 2/5 #TropiCon21 Amz wetlands are under immediate threat by climate change, deforestation and hydropower damming. Dams cause profound changes to the ecosystems (doi.org/10.1002/aqc.35…), and so do deforestation and climate-related changes that are known to be already happening.