Benjamin Samuel Black blenback

🔭 Building data and modelling infrastructure for agricultural living labs at ZALF
🌍 Working on land use change, biodiversity and ecosystem service scenarios under deep uncertainty
🛠️ Mostly R, Quarto and the occasional bit of JavaScript — reproducible by default
🌱 Always up for talking about Open Science, and how to make research outputs people actually use

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The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who did(n't) build them
_{Bell, A., Troost, C., Filatova, T., Vincenot, C., Qin, C., Fiedler, S., Lemmen, C., Lynch, I., Pierce, M., Edmonds ,B., McIntire, E., Wang, H., Koralewski, T., Grant, W., Wang, M., Black, B., Grimm, V.}
_{Bioscience · 2026}

Temporal Archetypes of Nature's Contributions to People for Sustainable Landscape Development
_{Wicki, S., Black, B., Külling, N., Kurmann, M., Wang, J., Lehmann, A., Gret-Regamey, A.}
_{Regional Environmental Change · 2026}

Identifying robust area-based conservation strategies to secure ecosystem service provision under uncertainties
_{Black, B. and Adde, A. and Külling, N. and Büth, C. and Kurmann, M. and Lehmann, A. and Altermatt, F. and Guisan, A. and Gret-Regamey, A.}
_{Journal of Environmental Management · 2026}

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