4 June 2019
Dr William Milliken
Research Leader
Department
Natural Capital and Plant Health
Team
Specialism
Application of plant science to human livelihoods and climate change adaptation, including health, food security and restoration of natural capital
Biography
My role is the development and leadership of a research programme focused on the application of plant and fungal science to human livelihoods and climate change adaptation, including health, food security and the restoration of natural capital.
Qualifications and appointments
- MA, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1985
- PhD, University of Cambridge, 1999
Selected publications
Ter Steege, H. et al. (incl. W. Milliken) (2013).
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora.
Science 342: 1243092.
Pareyn, F., Milliken, W., Baracat, A., et al. (2013).
Cuidando da Caatinga.
Associação Plantas do Nordeste (APNE) & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Barlow, J., Ewers, R. M., Anderson L., Aragao, L. E. O. C., Baker, T., Boyd E., Feldpausch T., Gloor E., Hall A., Malhi Y., Milliken, W., et al. (2011).
Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon.
Biological Reviews. 86: 457 – 474.
Milliken, W., Zappi D., Sasaki D., Hopkins M. & Pennington, R. T. (2011).
Amazon vegetation: how much don’t we know and how much does it matter?
Kew Bulletin 65(4): 691 – 709.
Whaley, O. Q, Beresford-Jones, D. G. Milliken, W., Orellana, A., Smyk, A. & Leguia, J. (2011)
An ecosystem approach to restoration and sustainable management of dry forest in southern Peru.
Kew Bulletin 65(4): 613-641
Projects
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Digital Amazon
Increasing access to Richard Spruce’s ethnobotanical collections as a resource for environmental change and indigenous knowledge.
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Balancing conservation and livelihoods in the Chimanimani Forest belt, Mozambique
Conservation and sustainable development with communities in the Chimanimani forest belt.
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