William Milliken
A5019839056- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest ecology and management
- Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Malaria Research and Control
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2016-2025
Wellcome Trust
2023
University of Exeter
2022
James Cook University
2021
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
2020
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
University of Edinburgh
2016
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
1991-2010
Chevron (Netherlands)
2004-2007
Despite the severe threats to plant habitats and high levels of extinction risk for species in many parts world, conservation priorities are often poorly represented national global frameworks because a lack data an accessible consistent format inform decision making. The Important Plant Areas (IPAs) criteria system offers pragmatic yet scientifically rigorous means delivering these datasets, enabling informed national- or regional-scale prioritisation, contributing significantly towards...
Societal Impact Statement Plants and fungi have provided, or inspired, key pharmaceuticals for global health challenges, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, malaria, are valued as traditional medicines worldwide. Global demand medicinal plants has threatened certain species, contributing to biodiversity loss depletion of natural resources that important the humanity. We consider evolving role in healthcare new challenges human arise. present current emerging scientific approaches,...
Plants sustain human life. Understanding geographic patterns of the diversity species used by people is thus essential for sustainable management plant resources. Here, we investigate global distribution 35,687 utilized spanning 10 use categories (e.g., food, medicine, material). Our findings indicate general concordance between and total diversity, supporting potential simultaneously conserving its contributions to people. Although Indigenous lands across Mesoamerica, Horn Africa, Southern...
Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across basin, 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath forest canopy. Modeled distribution abundance large-scale archaeological sites Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 23,648 remain be discovered most will found in southwest. also...
Unlike most rivers globally, nearly all lowland Amazonian have unregulated flow, supporting seasonally flooded floodplain forests. Floodplain forests harbor a unique tree species assemblage adapted to flooding and specialized fauna, including fruit-eating fish that migrate into floodplains, favoring expansive areas. Frugivorous are forest-dependent fauna critical forest regeneration via seed dispersal support commercial artisanal fisheries. We implemented linear mixed effects models...
Many of the skills and resources associated with botanic gardens arboreta, including plant taxonomy, horticulture, seed bank management, are fundamental to ecological restoration efforts, yet few world's involved in science or practice restoration. Thus, we examined potential role these emerging fields. We believe a reorientation certain existing institutional strengths, such as plant-based research knowledge transfer, would enable many more worldwide provide effective science-based support...
Plants are essential to human wellbeing, supporting important ecosystem services that critical components of Natural Capital. They supply food, medicine, fibre, fuel and building materials, provide a broad spectrum benefits society, offering vital solutions some the world’s major challenges, including bioenergy, animal health, nutrition, microbial resistance, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology. In 2016, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew published first State World's report, with key...
1. Maraca, Brazil, is a large riverine island which at the boundary between lowland evergreen rain forest and savanna. The now uninhabited but there evidence that much of its (including plots described in this paper) secondary, dating from before 1880. 2. mean annual rainfall about 2300 mm dry season October to March. 3. Six replicate 0.25 ha each were set up forest. Three these later felled, as part long-term study on regeneration, three left undisturbed. 4. Soils profile pit for surface...
Os resultados do primeiro inventário botânico detalhado da região Parque Estadual Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brasil, são apresentados, incluindo uma lista de espécies. Um total 1366 espécies plantas vasculares distribuídas em 626 gêneros e 151 famílias foram registradas. As com maior número Leguminosae, Rubiaceae, Melastomataceae, Malvaceae sensu lato Moraceae. A flora inclui pelo menos sete novas diversos endemismos Serra Cachimbo, assim como muitos registros novos para o estado alguns...
Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the water supplied precipitation. Nevertheless, within same climatic regime, availability is modulated local topography soil characteristics (hereafter referred as hydrological conditions), varying from saturated poorly drained well‐drained potentially dry areas. While these conditions may expected influence species distribution, impacts of on tree remain understood at whole Amazon basin scale. Using a dataset...
Tropical forest canopies are the biosphere's most concentrated atmospheric interface for carbon, water and energy1,2. However, in Earth System Models, diverse heterogeneous tropical biome is represented as a largely uniform ecosystem with either singular or small number of fixed canopy ecophysiological properties3. This situation arises, part, from lack understanding about how why functional properties vary geographically4. Here, by combining field-collected data more than 1,800 vegetation...
Abstract Wood density is a critical control on tree biomass, so poor understanding of its spatial variation can lead to large and systematic errors in forest biomass estimates carbon maps. The need understand how why wood varies especially tropical America where forests have exceptional species diversity turnover composition. As identity composition are challenging estimate remotely, ground surveys essential know the trees, whether measured directly or inferred from their identity. Here, we...
Information regarding the beneficial use of native Brazilian plants was compiled by a number European naturalists in 19th century. The Scottish surgeon botanist George Gardner (1812-1849) one such naturalist; however, useful recorded his manuscripts have not yet been studied depth.To present data manuscript Catalogue Plants people and evaluate extent to which they explored.Data on were obtained from Gardner׳s deposited Archives Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. identification each plant...
Abstract Herbarium specimens are increasingly recognized as an important resource for conservation science and virtual herbaria making freely available to a wider range of users than ever before. Few designed with use primary driver. Exceptionally, Brazil's Reflora Virtual (RVH) was created increase knowledge the Brazilian flora. The RVH is closely integrated Flora Brazil 2020 platform on which new national under construction. Both resources accessible via home page thousands move seamlessly...
Malaria remains a serious and challenging disease. Traditional antimalarial medicines are largely based on plants, ethnopharmacological research has inspired the development of pharmaceuticals such as artemisinin. Antimalarial drug resistance is an increasing problem in Plasmodium species, new therapeutic strategies to combat malaria needed. Although number cases been decreasing Latin America, significant threat many regions. Local people America have using numerous plant species treat...