Researcher

Sheila Holmes

Institute: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research area: Environment and climate change, Natural resource management, Poverty reduction
Research region: Africa
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

Professional experience

Co-supervisor of PhD
Lecturing
Supervision of Master’s students

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
Statistical analysis
Survey creation and analysis

Personal institution page

Publications

Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Patch size and isolation influence genetic patterns in black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) populations

Conservation Genetics
Use of provisioning ecosystem services drives loss of functional traits across land use intensification gradients in tropical forests in Madagascar

Biological Conservation
Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism

Functional Ecology
Species‐level view of population structure and gene flow for a critically endangered primate (Varecia variegata)

Ecology and Evolution
Fission-fusion dynamics in black-and-white ruffed lemurs may facilitate both feeding strategies and communal care of infants in a spatially and temporally variable environment

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
The use of natural resources to improve household income, health, and nutrition within the forests of Kianjavato, Madagascar

Madagascar Conservation & Development
Range overlap and spatiotemporal relationships of frugivorous lemurs at Kianjavato, Madagascar

Animal Behaviour
Lemurs in Fragmented Forests

Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Anthropogenic pressures drive population genetic structuring across a Critically Endangered lemur species range

Scientific Reports
The fate of Madagascar’s rainforest habitat

Nature Climate Change
Declining recruitment and mass of Swedish moose calves linked to hot, dry springs and snowy winters

Global Ecology and Conservation
A National-Level Assessment of Lemur Hunting Pressure in Madagascar

International Journal of Primatology
Fostering local involvement for biodiversity conservation in tropical regions: Lessons from Madagascar during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Biotropica
The gut microbiome as an indicator of habitat disturbance in a Critically Endangered lemur

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Increased summer temperature is associated with reduced calf mass of a circumpolar large mammal through direct thermoregulatory and indirect, food quality, pathways

Oecologia