Research Profile

My research focusses on the complex relationships between people and nature on which our well-being ultimately depends. I am particularly interested in understanding how anthropogenic disturbance influences biodiversity and the provision of the ecosystem goods and services that benefit people at different scales, especially within the context of forest-rich and multifunctional tropical landscapes. I am currently working on the Agrisys Tanzania research project, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and in collaboration with colleagues based in Tanzania, Kenya, the UK and Australia. Previously, I had the opportunity to work on interdisciplinary research projects in the Amazon forest, where I conducted my PhD research, and in Europe. 

Twitter: @srgmlhrs

Current Research Project

AGRISYS Tanzania

Research Group

TROPS – TROPical landScapes

Modelling, Evidence and Policy

• Milheiras SG, Guedes M, Barbosa F, Aparício P, Mace G. Patterns of biodiversity response along a gradient of forest use in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil. PeerJ 2020, 8, e8486.
• Milheiras SG, Mace G. Assessing ecosystem service provision in a tropical region with high forest cover: Spatial overlap and the impact of land use change in Amapá, Brazil. Ecological Indicators 2019, 99, 12-18.
• Mason T, Pollard C, Chimalakonda D, Guerrero A, Kerr-Smith C, Milheiras SG, Roberts M, Rodrigue P, Bunnefeld N. Wicked conflict: using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict. Conservation Letters 2018, 11(6), e12460.
• Sardinha I, Craveiro D, Milheiras SG. A sustainability framework for redevelopment of rural brownfields: Stakeholder participation at SÃO DOMINGOS mine, Portugal. Journal of Cleaner Production 2013, 57, 200-208.
• Milheiras SG, Hodge I. Attitudes towards compensation for wolf damages on livestock in Viana do Castelo, North of Portugal. Innovation: the European Journal of Social Science Research 2011, 24, 333-351.
• Monticelli D, Ramos JA, Milheiras SG, Doucet JL. Adult Survival of Tropical Roseate Terns Breeding on Aride Island, Seychelles, Western Indian Ocean. Waterbirds 2008, 31, 330-337.