Hey folks, this is Andy with the Poor Proles Almanac.

You can find us on Spotify, iTunes, and wherever you get your podcasts, and you can support our work

by finding us on Patreon, Venmo, or Kofi. Our Patreon includes a short mini-series called the Prologs,

where we talk about some peripheral stuff to the podcast series, and we do things like polls

about content that you might want to see covered

next, as well as some upcoming video footage that will be available from here on my farm

that we'll be releasing before it's released to the general public. So if that sounds interesting,

go check it out. Today, we have an interview with Dr. Ibanez from the University of Michigan's School for the Environment, where she specializes in ecosystem science and management.

We chat about her research and discuss the complex relationships between climate change, invasive species, and mitigating the disastrous effects of species struggling to travel fast enough

as the Earth quickly heats up.

Our conversation is short and to the point.

The three-headed beast of decimated forests from generations of mismanagement, climate change, and globalism

have created a unique catastrophe, which doesn't provide

many clear answers.

But decades of research are starting to give us glimmers of hope that the ecology is more

resilient than we give it credit for.

So take a listen to our chat and let us know what you think.

Inez, thanks so much for taking some time to chat with us.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your research and kind of how you ended up doing this very unique type of research?

So I started as a biologist with an overall interest in anything bio,

but as I got deeper and deeper into it,

I moved into ecology because it pretty much includes everything, organisms, the physical

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