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Inés Ibáñez

Ines Ibanez
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Ecosystem Science and Management
Climate + Energy
Conservation + Restoration
iibanez@umich.edu
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Associate Professor Ibáñez's 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, Ibáñez directs her 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. Results obtained from this line of research are essential to forecast reliable vegetation changes under future climate scenarios.

Publications

  • Tonn, N.  and Ibáñez, I. In press. Plant-mycorrhizal fungi associations along an urbanization gradient: implications for tree seedlings survival. Urban Ecosystems 
  • Vizcaíno-Palomar, N., Ibáñez, I., Benito-Garzón, M., González-Martínez, S. C., Zavala, M. A., Alía, R. In press. Climate and population of origin shape pine tree height-diameter allometry. New Forests
  • Katz, D.W. and Ibáñez, I. In press. Differences in biotic interactions across range edges have only minor effects on plant performance. Journal of Ecology.
  • Phillips, R.P., Ibáñez, I. , D'Orangeville, L., Hanson, P.J., Ryan, M.G., and McDowell, N. G. 2016. A belowground perspective on the drought sensitivity of forests: Towards improved  understanding and simulation. Forest Ecology and Management 380: 309-320.
  • Katz, D.W. and Ibáñez, I. 2016. Biotic interactions with natural enemies do not affect potential range expansion of three invasive plants in response to climate change. Biological Invasions 18: 3351-3363.
  • Early, R., Bradley, D., Dukes, J., Lawler, J., Olden, J., Blumenthal, D., Gonzalez, P., Grosholz, E., Ibañez, I., Miller, L., Sorte, C. and Tatem, A. 2016. Global threats from invasive alien species in the 21st Century and national response capacities. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12485
  • Katz, D.W. and Ibáñez, I. 2016. Foliar damage beyond species distributions is partly explained by distance dependent interactions with natural enemies. Ecology 97(9): 2331-2341.
  • Vizcaino-Palomar, N., Ibáñez, I., González-Martínez, S., Zavala, M.A. and Alía, R. 2016. Adaptation and plasticity in aboveground allometry variation of four pine species along environmental gradients. Ecology and Evolution
  • Ibáñez, I., Zak, D.R., Burton, A.J. and Pregitzer, B.K. 2016. Chronic nitrogen deposition alters allometric relationships in a dominant tree species: Implications for woody biomass production and ecosystem carbon storage. Ecological Applications 26: 913-925.
  • Clark, J. S., Iverson, L. R., Woodall, C. W., Allen, C., Bell, D.; Bragg, D., D'Amato, A., Davis, F., Hersh, M., Ibáñez, I., Jackson, S., Matthews, S., Pederson, N., Peters, M., Schwartz, M., Waring, K., Zimmerman, N., 2016. The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity. Global Change Biology.
  • Ibáñez, I. and McCarthy-Neumann, S. 2016. Effects of mycorrhizal fungi on tree seedling growth: quantifying the parasitism-mutualism transition along a light gradient. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46:48-57.
  • McCollum, C. and Ibáñez I. 2020. Soil moisture gradients and climate change: predicting growth of a critical boreal tree species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. In press.
  • Ibáñez I. and Rodríguez, A. 2020. Understanding neighborhood effects to increase restoration success of woody plant communities.  Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2098
  • Wallingford, P.D, Morelli, T.L., Allen, J.A., Beaury, E.M., Blumenthal, D.M., Bradley, B.A., Dukes, J.S., Early, R., Fusco, E.J. Goldberg, D.E., Ibáñez, I., Laginhas, B.B., Vilà, M. Sorter, C.J.B. 2020. Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0768-2
  • Cruz-Alonso, V., Villar-Salvador, P., Ruiz-Benito, P., Ibáñez I., Rey-Benayas, J.M. 2020 Long-term dynamics of shrub facilitation shape the mixing of evergreen and deciduous oaks in Mediterranean abandoned fields. J. Ecol. 108: 1125-1137. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13309
  • Ibáñez I., Acharya K., Juno E., Karounos C., Lee B.R., McCollum C., Schaffer-Morrison, S., Tourville, J. 2019. Forest resilience under global environmental change: Do we have the information we need? A systematic review. PLOS ONE: 14(9):e0222207
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Forest Health and Biotechnology: Possibilities and Considerations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: htpps://doi.org/10.17226/25221.
  • Ibáñez I., Zak, D.R., Burton, A.J. and Pregitzer, K.S. 2018. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition ameliorates the decline in tree growth caused by a drier climate. Ecology 99:411-420.
  • McClung. T. and Ibáñez I. 2018. Quantifying the synergistic effects of Impervious surface and drought on radial tree growth. Urban Ecosystems DOI 10.1007/s11252-017-0699-5

Education

PhD., Duke University (ecology)

M.S., Utah State University (range sciences)

B.S., Universidad Complutense de Madrid (botany)

In the News
SEAS master’s students Ezekiel Herrera-Bevan and Chantalle Vincent take a tree core sample at the U-M Biological Station.

Studying Trees for Clues About Climate Change

Working as a research assistant for SEAS Professor Inés Ibáñez is an experience that SEAS master’s student Ezekiel Herrera-Bevan will remember fondly for years to come...

Meet the future of Sustainability and Development: Josh Thompson (MS ’22)
April 25, 2022

Meet the future of Sustainability and Development: Josh Thompson (MS ’22)

Josh Thompson (MS ’22) has focused on the issues of climate change from a global perspective, which he developed and built upon during his time at the U-M School for...

Women's history month
March 3, 2022

Women’s History Month: Perspectives from SEAS Women in Sustainability

In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked our women faculty and researchers to share their perspectives as members of the sustainability field and to offer advice to...

Forest research
May 1, 2020

Balancing Impacts of Range-shifting Species: Invasive Disruption vs. Biodiversity Benefits

Ecologists urge greater discussion on consequences of range-shifting species SEAS Associate Professor Inés Ibáñez was a member of the research group that produced the...

In the Media
04/21/2022
Inés Ibáñez
The Great Lakes sugaring season is changing (Great Lakes Now)
04/01/2022
Inés Ibáñez
Maple syrup season may shift, shorten because of climate change (MLive)
07/06/2020
Inés Ibáñez
Some trees may 'social distance' to avoid disease (National Geographic Magazine)
01/01/2018
Inés Ibáñez
PANCAKES: IN BATTLE OF MAPLE SYRUP VERSUS CLIMATE CHANGE, THE SWEETENER MAY LOSE, STUDY SHOWS
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