List of works - Isla Myers‐Smith

A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

A warmer and greener cold world: summer warming increases shrub growth in the alpine and high Arctic tundra

article

Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

scientific article

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

article by Mark Vellend et al published 30 September 2014 in Oikos

Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

article

Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Changing climate sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) in a peatland–forest landscape in Interior Alaska

scholarly article by Martin Wilmking & Isla H. Myers‐Smith published March 2008 in Dendrochronologia

Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs

scientific article published in 2022

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

article

Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection".

scientific article

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

article published in 2019

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Contrasting shrub species respond to early summer temperatures leading to correspondence of shrub growth patterns

Cumulative impacts on Alaskan arctic tundra of a quarter century of road dust

article published in 2006

Developing common protocols to measure tundra herbivory across spatial scales

scientific article

Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars vs. stems in tundra shrubs

scientific article

Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats

scientific article

Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

preprint

Effect of Terrain Characteristics on Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Stocks in Soils of Herschel Island, Western Canadian Arctic

article

Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

scientific article published in 2019

Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny

scientific article

Expansion of canopy-forming willows over the twentieth century on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

scientific article

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

scientific article

Forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change:

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

scientific article

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

scientific article

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

scientific article

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

scientific article

HOW DO BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS (MOLOTHRUS ATER) CAUSE NEST FAILURES IN SONG SPARROWS (MELOSPIZA MELODIA)? A REMOVAL EXPERIMENT

article by James N.M. Smith et al published 2003 in The Auk

Historical ecology: using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change

scientific article

Influence of disturbance on carbon exchange in a permafrost collapse and adjacent burned forest

scholarly article

Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems

Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra

article

Location, location, location: considerations when using lightweight drones in challenging environments

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

scientific article

Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

article

Multi-decadal changes in tundra environments and ecosystems: synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future project (IPY-BTF).

scientific article

Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene

scientific article

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant traits inform predictions of tundra responses to global change

article

Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in 2023

Plant–plant interactions could limit recruitment and range expansion of tall shrubs into alpine and Arctic tundra

article

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

article

Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research

Publisher Correction to: Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome

scholarly article published in Polar Biology

Range shifts in a foundation sedge potentially induce large Arctic ecosystem carbon losses and gains

scientific article published on 22 March 2022

Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

article

Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

scholarly article by Andrew M. Cunliffe et al published 27 May 2019 in The Cryosphere

Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Rarity and conservation status do not predict vertebrate population trends

Recent climate-related terrestrial biodiversity research in Canada's Arctic national parks: review, summary, and management implications

article

Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation

article

Reply to comment on ‘Kane et al. 2008. Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1: 105-117’

Resilience: Easy to use but hard to define

article by Isla H. Myers-Smith et al published 2012 in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

scholarly article by Michael M Loranty et al published 31 August 2018 in Biogeosciences

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

scientific article published on 7 May 2018

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems

scientific article

Shrub Line Advance in Alpine Tundra of the Kluane Region: Mechanisms of Expansion and Ecosystem Impacts

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

scientific article

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

article

Shrub growth and expansion in the Arctic tundra: an assessment of controlling factors using an evidence-based approach

scientific article

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Species richness change across spatial scales

scientific article published on 20 April 2019

Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring

Summer temperature—but not growing season length—influences radial growth of Salix arctica in coastal Arctic tundra

scientific article published in 2022

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

scientific article published in 2015

The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

scientific article

Tips for Effective Communication in Ecology

article published in 2007

Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

article

Trait covariance: the functional warp of plant diversity?

scientific article

Transitions in Arctic ecosystems: Ecological implications of a changing hydrological regime

scholarly article

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

article

Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

scientific article published in 2022

Uniform female‐biased sex ratios in alpine willows ⬇️

scientific article published on July 4, 2012

Vegetation composition and shrub extent on the Yukon coast, Canada, are strongly linked to ice-wedge polygon degradation

article

Vegetation monitoring using multispectral sensors - best practices and lessons learned from high latitudes

Vegetation monitoring using multispectral sensors — best practices and lessons learned from high latitudes

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

article

Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst

scholarly article by I. H. Myers-Smith et al published 5 September 2008 in Biogeosciences

Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

List of works by Isla Myers‐Smith

A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

A warmer and greener cold world: summer warming increases shrub growth in the alpine and high Arctic tundra

Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Changing climate sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) in a peatland–forest landscape in Interior Alaska

Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection".

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

Contrasting shrub species respond to early summer temperatures leading to correspondence of shrub growth patterns

Cumulative impacts on Alaskan arctic tundra of a quarter century of road dust

Developing common protocols to measure tundra herbivory across spatial scales

Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars vs. stems in tundra shrubs

Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats

Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline

Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites

Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

Effect of Terrain Characteristics on Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Stocks in Soils of Herschel Island, Western Canadian Arctic

Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny

Expansion of canopy-forming willows over the twentieth century on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

Forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change:

Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

HOW DO BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS (MOLOTHRUS ATER) CAUSE NEST FAILURES IN SONG SPARROWS (MELOSPIZA MELODIA)? A REMOVAL EXPERIMENT

Historical ecology: using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change

Influence of disturbance on carbon exchange in a permafrost collapse and adjacent burned forest

Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change

Litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems

Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra

Location, location, location: considerations when using lightweight drones in challenging environments

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

Multi-decadal changes in tundra environments and ecosystems: synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future project (IPY-BTF).

Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant traits inform predictions of tundra responses to global change

Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome

Plant–plant interactions could limit recruitment and range expansion of tall shrubs into alpine and Arctic tundra

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research

Publisher Correction to: Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome

Range shifts in a foundation sedge potentially induce large Arctic ecosystem carbon losses and gains

Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends

Rarity and conservation status do not predict vertebrate population trends

Recent climate-related terrestrial biodiversity research in Canada's Arctic national parks: review, summary, and management implications

Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation

Reply to comment on ‘Kane et al. 2008. Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1: 105-117’

Resilience: Easy to use but hard to define

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations

Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems

Shrub Line Advance in Alpine Tundra of the Kluane Region: Mechanisms of Expansion and Ecosystem Impacts

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

Shrub growth and expansion in the Arctic tundra: an assessment of controlling factors using an evidence-based approach

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

Species richness change across spatial scales

Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring

Summer temperature—but not growing season length—influences radial growth of Salix arctica in coastal Arctic tundra