Publications: Isla Myers-Smith (UBC)

Assmann, J.J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Phillimore, A.B., Bjorkman, A.D., Ennos, R.E., Prevéy, J.S., Henry, G.H.R., Schmidt, N.M., and Hollister, R.D.: Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra; Global Change Biology, Vol. 25(7), 2258-2274, 2019, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14639

Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S.C. et al.: Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome; Nature, Vol. 562, 57–62, 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Blowes, S.A., Supp, S.R., Antao, L.H., Bates, A., Bruelheide, H., Chase, J.M., Moyes, F., Magurran A., McGill, B., Myers-Smith, I.H., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A.D., Bowler, D., Byrnes, J.K., Gonzalez, A., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones H.P., Navarro, L.M., Thompson, P.L. Vellend, M., Waldock, C., and Dornelas, M.: The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages; Science, Vol. 336(6463), 339-345, 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1620

Daskalova, G.N., Myers-Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D., Blowes, S.A., Supp, S., Magurran, A.E., and Dornelas, M.: Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change; Science, Vol. 368(6497), 1341-1347, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.aba1289

Elmendorf, S., Henry, G., Hollister, R., Björk, R.G., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Cooper, E.J., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Day, T.A., Dorrepaal, E., Elumeeva, T.G., Gill, M., Gould, W.A., Harte, J., Hik, D.S., Hofgaard, A., Johnson, D.R., Johnstone, J.F., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jorgensen, J.C., Klanderud, K., Klein, J.A., Koh, S., Kudo, G., Lara, M., Lévesque, E., Magnússon, B., May, J.L., Mercado-Diáz, Ją., Michelsen, A., Milau, U., Myers-Smith, I.H., Oberbauer, S.F., Onipchenko, V.G., Rixen, C., Schmidt, N.M., Shaver, G.R., Spasojevic, M.J., Þórhallsdóttir, P.E., Tolvanen, A., Troxler, T., Tweedie, C.E., Villareal, S., Wahren, C.-H., Walker, X., Webber, P.J., Welker, J.M., and Wippe, S.: Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming; Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, 453–457, 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1465

Myers-Smith, I.H., Forbes, B.C., Wilmking, M., Hallinger, M., Lantz, T., Blok, D., Tape, K.D, Macias-Fauria, M., Sass-Klaassen, U., Lévesque, E.: Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities; Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 6, 045509, 2011, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509

Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S.C., Beck, P.S.A., Wilmking, M., Hallinger, M., Blok, D., Tape, K.D., Rayback, S.A., Macias-Fauria, M., Forbes, B.C., Speed, J.D.M., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Rixen, C., Lévesque, E., Schmidt, N.M., Baittinger, C., Trant, A.J., Hermanutz, L., Siegwart Collier, L., Dawes, M.A., Lantz, T.C., Weijers, S., Jørgensen, R.H., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Naito, A.T., Ravolainen, V., Schaepman-Strub, G., Wheeler, J.A., Wipf, S., Guay, K.C., Hik, D.S., and Vellend, M.: Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome; Nature Climate Change, Vol. 5, 887–891, 2015, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2697

Myers-Smith, I.H., Grabowski, M.M., Thomas, H.J.D., Angers-Blondin, S., Daskalova, G.N., Bjorkman, A.D., Cunliffe, A.M., Assmann, J.J., Boyle, J.S., McLeod, E., McLeod, E., Joe, R., Lennie, P., Arey, D., Gordon, R.R., and Eckert, C.D.: Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change; Ecological Monographs, Vol. 89(2), e01351, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1351

Myers-Smith, I.H., Kerby, J.T., Phoenix, G.K., et al.: Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic; Nature Climate Change, Vol. 10, 106–117, 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1

Thomas, H.J.D., Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H. et al.: Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome; Nature Communications, Vol. 11, 1351, 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4