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Since Fall 2000, Inés Ibáñez has been a Ph.D. student in the University Program in Ecology at Duke University. Her research concentrates on community ecology, specifically recruitment limitation of woody species in the context of global climate change. She is currently carrying out experiments to estimate recruitment limitation of potential migrant species relative to local trees in two regions in North Carolina, (U.S.A), the Piedmont and the Southern Appalachian mountains. The results from this study are being used to develop and parameterize models of community recruitment. She will employ these models to elucidate potential changes in forest species composition under a suite of future climate scenarios. |
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| Inés became interested in environmental sciences after earning her bachelor's degree in Biology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During the next year, she spent four months at the University of North of Wales, and a semester at Helsinki University finishing her "Licenciatura de Grado" in lichen taxonomy and ecology with Dr. A. R. Burgaz. In 1995 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a masters degree in natural resources in the USA. She chose the Range Science Department at Utah State University for this work, focusing on Plant Population Ecology with Dr. E. W. Schupp. Her interest in Mediterranean vegetation response to fire and to a changing climate lead her to Dr. Oechel and the Global Change Research Group at San Diego State University. For a year and a half she worked on chaparral species response to elevated carbon dioxide, monitoring ecophysiological, phenological, morphological changes before deciding to pursue her Ph.D. at Duke under Dr. J. S. Clark. | |
