People
The Dirty Oaks
Email: globalchangeecologylab@umich.edu
Inés Ibáñez
Principal Investigator
Email: iibanez@umich.edu
Phone: 1-734-6158817
My major research interests focus on the current challenges that plant communities are facing in the context of global change, i.e. climate change, invasive species, and landscape fragmentation. These challenges are interconnected as they form the novel environment under which plants are growing. The fact that forest communities are highly dependent on recruitment dynamics makes the study of early demographic stages critical for understanding the impact of global change on the natural ecosystems around us. To isolate these phenomena, I have directed my research at the recruitment of dominant tree species, from seed production to the sapling stage, including seed dispersal, germination, establishment and survival during the first years. This line of research covers a gap on the study of vegetation response to global change, where most work done has been on the basis of correlative approaches, e.g., climate envelopes. By focusing on the actual demographic responses of plant species to a changing environment, results from my work will be essential to forecast reliable vegetation changes under future climate scenarios.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Hitaishi Desai, PhD
Ben Lee, Post Doc
Cheyenne Lei, Post Doc,
Sara Olmsted, MS
Sophie Steppe, MS
Martin Vandershoot, MS
FORMER MEMBERS
Lais Petri, PhD student, currently: Postdoc
Ezekiel Herrera-Bevan, MS student
Chantalle Vincent, MS student
Juanmi Requena-Mullor PostDoc, currently: Research Scientist
Hannah Zonnevylle, Thesis undergraduate student
Xiaomao Wang, MS student
Ben Lee, PhD student, currently: Postdoc
Kirk Acharya, MS student
Sam Schaffer-Morrison, currrently: PhD program, EEB, U. Michigan
Chris Karounos
Edith Juno, MS student
Caleb McCollum, MS student, currently: Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, West Point
Jordon Tourville, MS student, currently: PhD student SUNY
Dan Katz, PhD student, currently: Faculty, Cornell University
Natalie Tonn, MS student
Teegan McClung MS student
Elan Margulies MS student
Tiffany Carey Undergraduate student
Drew Peltier MS student, currently: Faculty, U. Nevada
Liana May MS student
Samantha Wolf MS student
Sarah Neumann PostDoc, currrently: Faculty
Jeff Diez, PostDoc, currrently: Faculty
Ben Connor Barrie, MS student
Marshall McMunn, Research Assistant, currently: Postdoc
Zack Brym MS student, currently: Faculty, U. Florida
DORIS DUKE CONSERVATION SCHOLARS
Te'Yah Write, 2019
Brayden Pollvogt, 2019
Mikaila Davis, 2018
Malik Smith, 2017
Trina Dhar, 2016
VISITING SCHOLARS
Jairo Robla, EBD Spain
Gang Liu, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Paco Lloret, Universistat de Barcelona, Spain
Yu Liu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Verónica Cruz, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Spain
Natalia Vizcaino, INIA Spain
Pablo Gonzalez, EBD Spain
Beatriz Ibanez, IRNAS Spain
Emi Martin, ETSEA Spain
Montse Vila, EBD Spain