Dr Leonardo De Sousa Miranda

Senior Research Associate

Research Overview

Environmental data scientist with 15+ years of experience in Amazon. For the past six years, I've been working on projects aimed at assessing the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ESs), selecting priority areas for restoration / conservation, assessing the success of the recovery of degraded areas with a focus on ESs, and remote monitoring of biodiversity using automatic recorders (soundscape).As tools, I've been using R programming language (for statistical computing, environmental/spatial data analysis and graphics) and QGIS (to create, edit and visualise geospatial information). Currently, I'm learning SQL and Python.

Selected Publications

Combining connectivity and species distribution modeling to define conservation and restoration priorities for multiple species: A case study in the eastern Amazon
Miranda, L.D.S., Awade, M., Jaffé, R., Costa, W.F., Trevelin, L.C., Borges, R.C., Brito, R.M.d., Tambosi, L.R., Giannini, T.C. 31/05/2021 In: Biological Conservation. 257, 11 p.
Journal article

Climate change impact on ecosystem functions provided by birds in southeastern Amazonia
Miranda, L.S., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., Giannini, T.C. 11/04/2019 In: PLoS ONE. 14, 4
Journal article

Enabling large-scale and climate-resilient forest restoration in the Eastern Amazon
01/11/2024 → 31/10/2027
Research

From Loss to Renewal: Biodiversity-Centered Restoration in Amazonia
01/12/2023 → 31/12/2025
Research

BIOCLIMATE: BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
Research

7th MapBiomas Award
Review of Award Applications

GCBC Research Symposium
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Workshop on Priority Areas for the Recovery of Native Vegetation in the Amazon
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Science for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Integrating population genomics and landscape ecology to guide Amazonian conservation planning
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2024
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

59th Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais (Journal)
Editorial activity

  • Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science