Alon Zuta

Research

Alon’s current research includes:

• Assessing the spatial distribution of ecosystem services and evaluating how land use and land cover changes affect their provision. This includes identifying potential biases and sources of error in spatial proxy models and analysing how model outputs vary across spatial and thematic scales.

• Evaluating the effects of landscape composition and configuration on biodiversity and investigating the robustness of landscape metrics under varying spatial and thematic conditions.

• Developing a social-ecological network model for agricultural systems through a conceptual and computational framework that integrates biophysical, socio-economic, and institutional components. The model captures interactions among stakeholders, farming practices, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, providing insights into the dynamics underpinning agricultural sustainability.

• Investigating the application of large language models (LLMs) for automated data mining and text analysis to support the development, validation, and refinement of social-ecological network models.

• Examining inherent uncertainties and associated methodological and epistemic challenges in expert-based and participatory modelling approaches and developing methodologies to evaluate and address them.

• Refining methodologies for analysing spectral reflectance properties to improve land cover classification and enhance the accuracy of land cover mapping for research applications.