Blas M. Benito scientific and technical profile

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# Blas M. Benito <br><br> scientific <br> and technical <br> profile
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# Education

- 2003 Degree in Biology
- 2006 Master's Degree in Environmental Auditing
- **2009 Master's Degree in Geographic Information Systems**
- **2009 PhD in Plant Ecology and Global Change**

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# Professional experience

- 2006 - 2010 Predoctoral fellow UGR
- 2010 - 2012 Staff researcher Global Change Observatory of Sierra Nevada
- 2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral fellow UGR
- **2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral fellow AU (Denmark)**
- **2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral fellow UiB (Norway)**
- 2020 - 2021 Staff researcher UA (Spain)

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#Research focus

- Ecoinformatics (a.k.a. *Biodiversity Informatics*)
- Biogeography
- Ecological niche and species distributions
- Machine Learning methods in ecology

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#One question about ecological phenomena: <br><br> WHY WHERE?

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.small[**Spatio-temporal scope**]
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Local (10m<sup>2</sup>) to Global, 130kaBP to 2100.
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.small[**Responses**]

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- Biodiversity metrics
- Phenological indices
- Frost risk
- Species interactions
- Soil carbon
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.small[**Predictors**]

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- Climate
- Topography
- Remote sensing
- Soil data
- Land-use
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#Methods

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#Workflow

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#R development

- `spatialRF`: spatial modelling with Random Forest.
- `distantia`: time-series comparison.
- `memoria`: time-series memory analysis.
- `virtualPollen`: mechanistic population model.

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.large[If you need to know more: [www.blasbenito.com](https://www.blasbenito.com)]

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#That's all, thank you!