O Tempo e a Restinga - Time and Restinga

The biologist Aline Alves do Nascimento, by identifying some of the plants.
Beatriz de Castro Goulart, for giving us the pictures of the first House of Grussaí,
thus stamping forever this relic of unmatched value in our memory!
The architect Renato Aquino, who very friendly participated in the construction
of this book and also accepted to write its introduction.
Paulo Roberto Canto Farag, living memory of the creation of NPPR (Natural Pa-
trimony Private Reserve) Fazenda Caruara who kindly reported the birth of this conser-
vation area.
Superior Educational Institute of the Educational Center Nossa Senhora Auxi-
liadora (ISECENSA) represented by Ir. Suraya Benjamin Chaloub and Elizabeth Landim
Gomes Siqueira for supporting the research conducted at the Chemical Laboratory and
Biomolecules (LAQUIBIO) which supported the creation of part of this book.
The members of this laboratory (Hugo da Silva Coutinho, Sabrina de Souza
Carvalho, Tainná Gomes Pessanha Imbeloni and Carolina de Fátima Rabello de Abreu
Cabral) and the Postgraduate and Extension Department (Viviane de Azevedo Tavares,
Adriana Cabral Rodrigues de Souza, Nicimara Santos Soriano and Luana das Chagas
Abreu), for their active participation in the dream of this research.
Prumo Logística S.A., which approved our research project, allowing that several
field visits were carried out, as without them part of this book would have never been
completed.