InBioVeritas – Valuating nature in the southern Mata Atlântica of Brazil

Abstract The competence center InBioVeritas was founded in 2007 with the vision to integrate competences for ecological and socioeconomic research, sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation in the southern Mata Atlântica. Originating from a successful partnership in a recently terminated Brazilian-German research project (SOLOBIOMA), it is based on long experience and strong commitment of its members. It is concerned with a region of the Atlantic Forest where the largest forest remnants are found in protection areas of different status. However, cumulative effects of land use and climate change are likely to threat conservation and promote further loss of biodiversity in the future.