User:Aleruete

Dr. Alejandro Ruete

Alejandro Ruete received his PhD at the Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala (Sweden). He obtained his degree in Biological Sciences at Comahue National University, S.C. Bariloche (Argentina).

"I am a population ecologist with great interest in conservation biology. My personal goal is to develop mathematical and statistical tools for nature conservancy, trying to merge basic and applied science. I consider that both time and space are key dimensions to understand variability in biological systems. Living systems are far from behaving in a simple fashion or being easily predictable. However, with the rise of more powerful computation capabilities and using an old probabilistic theory (Bayes theorem, 1763), it is now straightforward to acknowledge uncertainties. This allows us to know with more certainty, although it sounds contradictory, how a biological system works. I try to translate all my findings directly into knowledge applicable to conservation biology.

I am also interested on taking advantage of opportunistic observations and non-systematic data collections (presence-only data), to make the best scientific inference from it. These data possess great value that is often overlooked.".