Publications

Emilio Guirado, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Blas M. Benito, José Luis Molina Pardo, Miguel Berdugo, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Fernando T. Maestre (2023). The global biogeography and environmental drivers of fairy circles. New Phytologist (Tansley Review).

Alice Monnier-Corbel, Alexandre Robert, Yves Hingrat, Blas M. Benito, Anne-Christine Monnet, Yves Hingrat (2023). Species Distribution Models predict abundance and its temporal variation in a steppe bird population.. Global Ecology and Conservation.

Laura Martín García, Nereida M. Rancel-Rodríguez, Carlos Sangil, Javier Reyes, Blas M. Benito, Sharay Orellana, Marta Sansón (2022). Environmental and human factors drive the subtropical marine forests of Gongolaria abies-marina to extinction.. Marine Environmental Research.

Xavier Benito, Blas M. Benito, Maria I. Vélez, Jorge Salgado, Tobias Schneider, Liviu Giosan, Majoi N. Nascimento (2022). Human practices behind the aquatic and terrestrial ecological decoupling to climate change in the tropical Andes.. Science of The Total Environment.

Alice Monnier-Corbel, Anne-Christine Monnet, Léo Bacon, Blas M. Benito, Alexandre Robert, Yves Hingrat (2022). Density-dependence of reproductive success in a Houbara bustard population.. Global Ecology and Conservation.

Joaquín Moreno, Sergio Asensio, Miguel Berdugo, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, David S. Pescador, Blas M. Benito, Fernando T. Maestre (2022). Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites.. Scientific Data.

Fernando T. Maestre, Blas M. Benito, Miguel Berdugo, Laura Concostrina-Zubiri, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, David J. Eldridge, Emilio Guirado, Nicolas Gross, Sonia Kéfi, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Santiago Soliveres (2021). Biogeography of global drylands. New Phytologist (Tansley Review).

Antonio J. Pérez-Luque, Blas M. Benito, Francisco J. Bonet, Regino Zamora (2021). Ecological Diversity within Rear-Edge: A Case Study from Mediterranean Quercus pyrenaica Willd.. Forests.

Masahiro Ryo, Boyan Angelov, Stefano Mammola, Jamie M. Kass, Blas M. Benito, Florian Hartig (2020). Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models. Ecography.

Andrea Contina, Scott W. Yanco, Allison K. Pierce, Michelle DePrenger-Levin, Michael B. Wunder, Andreas M. Neophytou, C. Phoebe Lostroh, Richard J. Telford, Blas M. Benito, Joseph Chipperfield, Robert B. O'Hara, Colin J. Carlson (2020). Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate”, author Coro. Ecological Modelling.

Colin J. Carlson, Joseph D. Chipperfield, Blas M. Benito, Richard J. Telford, Robert B. O'Hara (2020). Don’t gamble the COVID-19 response on ecological hypotheses. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Quai.Yu Cui, Marie-José Gaillard, Boris Vannière, Daniele Colombaroli, Geoffrey Lemdahl, Fredrik Olsson, Blas M. Benito, Yan Zhao (2020). Evaluating fossil charcoal representation in small peat bogs: Detailed Holocene fire records from southern Sweden. The Holocene.

Constantin M. Zohner, Lidong Mo, Susanne S. Renner, Jens-Christian Svenning, Yann Vitasse, Blas M. Benito, Alejandro Ordonez, Frederik Baumgarten, Jean-François Bastin, Veronica Sebald, Peter B. Reich, Jingjing Liang, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Sergio de-Miguel, Giorgio Alberti, Clara Antón-Fernández, Radomir Balazy, Urs-Beat Brändli, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Tom M. Fayle, Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Mohammed Latif Khan, Hyun Seok Kim, Henn Korjus, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Pascal A. Niklaus, Alain Paquette, Hans Pretzsch, Purabi Saikia, Peter Schall, Vladimír Šebeň, Miroslav Svoboda, Elena Tikhonova, Helder Viana, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Thomas W. Crowther (2020). Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia. PNAS.

Colin J. Carlson, Joseph D. Chipperfield, Blas M. Benito, Richard J. Telford, Robert B. O'Hara (2020). Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

María Leunda, Graciela Gil-Romera, Anne-Laure Daniau, Blas M. Benito, Penélope González-Sampériz (2020). Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the Central Pyrenees (Spain). Catena.

Felde, V. A., ..., Blas M. Benito, et al. (2020). Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

Joseph D. Chipperfield, Robert B. O'Hara, Blas M. Benito, Richard J. Telford, Colin J. Carlson (2020). On the inadequacy of species distribution models for modelling the spread of SARS-CoV-2: response to Araújo and Naimi. EcoEvoRxiv Preprints.

Blas M. Benito (2020). distantia: an open‐source toolset to quantify dissimilarity between multivariate ecological time‐series. Ecography.

Blas M. Benito, Graciela Gil-Romera (2020). Ecological memory at millennial time‐scales: the importance of data constraints, species longevity and niche features. Ecography.

B.L Valero-Garcés, Penélope González-Sampériz, Graciela Gil-Romera, Blas M. Benito, A. Moreno, B. Oliva-Urcia, J. Aranbarri, E. García-Prieto, M. Frugone, M. Morellón, L.J. Arnold, M. Demuro, M. Hardiman, S.P.E. Blockey, C.S. Lane (2019). A multi-dating approach to age-modelling long continental records: The 135 ka El Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (NE Spain). Quaternary Geochronology.

Graciela Gil-Romera, Carole Adolf, Blas M. Benito, Lucas Bittner, Maria U. Johansson, David A. Grady, Henry F. Lamb, Bruk Lemma, Mekbib Fekadu, Bruno Glaser, Betelhem Mekonnen, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo, Michael Zech, Wolfgang Zech, Georg Miaha (2019). Long-term fire resilience of the Ericaceous Belt, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Biology Letters.

Albuquerque F., Blas M. Benito, Rodríguez MÁM., Gray C. (2018). Potential changes in the distribution of Carnegiea gigantea under future scenarios. PeerJ+.

Radoslav Kozma, Mette Lillie, Blas M. Benito, Jens-Christian Svenning, Jacob Höglund (2018). Past and potential future population dynamics of three grouse species using ecological and whole genome coalescent modeling. Ecology and Evolution.

Gang Feng, Ziyu Ma, Blas M. Benito, Signe Normand, Alejandro Ordoñez, Yi Jin, Lingfeng Mao, Jens-Christian Svenning (2017). Phylogenetic age differences in tree assemblages across the Northern Hemisphere increase with long-term climate stability in unstable regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Blas M. Benito, Jens-Christian Svenning, Trine Kellberg Nielsen, Felix Riede, Graciela Gil-Romera, Thomas Mailund, Brody Sandel (2017). The ecological niche and distribution of Neanderthals during the Last Interglacial. Journal of Biogeography.

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Gang Feng, Lingfeng Mao, Blas M. Benito, Nathan G. Swenson, Jens-Christian Svenning (2017). Historical anthropogenic footprints in the distribution of threatened plants in China. Biological Conservation.

Trine Kellberg Nielsen, Blas M. Benito, Jens-Christian Svenning, Brody Sandel, Luseadra McKerracher, Felix Riede (2017). Investigating Neanderthal dispersal above 55°N in Europe during the Last Interglacial Complex. Quaternary International.

Constantin M. Zohner, Blas M. Benito, Jason D. Fridley, Jens-Christian Svenning, Susanne S. Renner (2017). Spring predictability explains different leaf‐out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe and East Asia. PNAS.

Constantin M. Zohner, Blas M. Benito, Jens-Christian Svenning, Susanne S. Renner (2016). Day length unlikely to constrain climate-driven shifts in leaf-out times of northern woody plants. PNAS.

Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jessica L. Blois, Blas M. Benito, Solomon Dobrowski, Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., Jenny L. McGuire (2015). A 2.5‐million‐year perspective on coarse‐filter strategies for conserving nature's stage. Conservation Biology.

Albuquerque F., Blas M. Benito, Beier, P., Assunção-Albuquerque, M.J., Cayuela, L. (2015). Supporting underrepresented forests in Mesoamerica. Natureza & Conservação.

A.J. Mendoza-Fernández, F. Martínez-Hernández, F.J. Pérez-García, J.A. Garrido Becerra, Blas M. Benito, E. Salmerón Sánchez, J. Guirado, M.E. Merlo, J.F. Mota (2015). Extreme habitat loss in a Mediterranean habitat: Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea. Plant Biosystems.

José Miguel Barea-Azcón, Blas M. Benito (shared first coauthorship), Francisco J. Olivares, Helena Ruiz, Javier Martín, Antonio L. García, Rogelio López (2014). Distribution and conservation of the relict interaction between the butterfly Agriades zullichi and its larval foodplant (Androsace vitaliana nevadensis). Biodiversity Conservation.

Francisco J. Bonet, Ramón Pérez-Pérez, Blas M. Benito, Fabio Suzart de Albuquerque, Regino Zamora (2014). Documenting, storing, and executing models in Ecology: A conceptual framework and real implementation in a global change monitoring program. Environmental Modelling & Software.

Blas M. Benito, Juan Lorite, Ramón Pérez-Pérez, Lorena Gómez-Aparicio, Julio Peñas (2014). Forecasting plant range collapse in a mediterranean hotspot: when dispersal uncertainties matter. Diversity and Distributions.

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Elise S. Gornish, Jill A. Hamilton, Albert Barberán, Blas M. Benito, Amrei Binzer, Julie E. DeMeester, Robert Gruwez, Bruno Moreira, Shirin Taheri, Sara Tomiolo, Catarina Vinagre, Pauline Vurain, Jennifer Weaver (2013). Interdisciplinary Climate Change Collaborations Are Essential for Early‐Career Scientists. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union.

Mireia Valle, Marieke M. van Katwijk, Dick J. de Jong, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Aafke M. Schipper, Guillem Chust, Blas M. Benito, Joxe M. Garmendia, Ángel Borja (2013). Comparing the performance of species distribution models of Zostera marina: Implications for conservation. Journal of Sea Research.

Blas M. Benito, Luis Cayuela, Fabio S. Albuquerque (2013). The impact of modelling choices in the predictive performance of richness maps derived from species‐distribution models: guidelines to build better diversity models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

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Albuquerque, F., Assunção-Albuquerque, M.J., Cayuela, L., Zamora, R., Blas M. Benito (2013). European Bird distribution is “well” represented by Special Protected Areas: Mission accomplished?. Biological Conservation.

Ramón Pérez-Pérez, Blas M. Benito, Francisco J. Bonet (2012). ModeleR: An enviromental model repository as knowledge base for experts. Expert Systems with Applications.

Julio Peñas, Blas M. Benito, Juan Lorite, Miguel Ballesteros, Eva María Cañadas, Montserrat Martínez-Ortega (2011). Habitat Fragmentation in Arid Zones: A Case Study of Linaria nigricans Under Land Use Changes (SE Spain). Environmental Management.

Blas M. Benito, Juan Lorite, Julio Peñas (2011). Simulating potential effects of climatic warming on altitudinal patterns of key species in Mediterranean-alpine ecosystems. Climatic Change.

Juan Lorite, Julio Peñas, Blas M. Benito, Eva Cañadas, Francisco Valle (2010). Conservation Status of the First Known Population of Polygala balansae in Europe. Annales Botanici Fennici.

Francisca Alba-Sánchez, José A. López-Sáez, Blas M. Benito, Juan C. Linares, Diego Nieto-Lugilde, Lourdes López-Merino (2010). Past and present potential distribution of the Iberian Abies species: a phytogeographic approach using fossil pollen data and species distribution models . Diversity and Distributions.

Blas M. Benito, Montserrat Martínez-Ortega, Luz M. Muñoz, Juan Lorite, Julio Peñas (2009). Assessing extinction-risk of endangered plants using species distribution models: a case study of habitat depletion caused by the spread of greenhouses. Biodiversity and Conservation.

Blas M. Benito (2008). Greenhouses, land use change, and predictive models: MaxEnt and Geomod working together. Paegelow M., Olmedo M.T.C. (eds) Modelling Environmental Dynamics. Environmental Science and Engineering (Environmental Science). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.