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Overview

Isla H. Myers-Smith is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. The main focus areas of their work are atmospheric science and ecology, involving ecological modeling and nature and landscape conservation.

Their research topics cover a range of environmental and climate-related themes, including:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Indigenous studies and ecology

Notable publication venues for their work include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Arctic Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Isla H. Myers-Smith are:

  • Gergana N. Daskalova
  • Anne D. Bjorkman
  • Jeffrey T. Kerby
  • Robert D. Hollister
  • Haydn J. D. Thomas

Recent scientific publications highlight various aspects of Arctic and tundra ecosystems. These include:

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes, 2020, People and Nature

The documented publications indicate sustained research engagement from 2020 through 2022, covering multidisciplinary environmental sciences focused on the Arctic region and its vegetation dynamics.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

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

    Isla H Myers-Smith;Isla H Myers-Smith;Bruce C Forbes;Martin Wilmking;Martin Hallinger

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

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

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

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H.R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Björk

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

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

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

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

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Agnieszka Kotowska;Jill Bubier;Nancy B. Dise

  • Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

    Mark Vellend;Diane S. Srivastava;Kathryn M. Anderson;Carissa D. Brown

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

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

    Logan T. Berner;Richard Massey;Patruc Jantz;Bruce C. Forbes

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

    Zelalem A Mekonnen;William J Riley;Logan T Berner;Nicholas J Bouskill

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

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Anna Maria Fosaa

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

    Frederick J. Wrona;Margareta Johansson;Joseph M. Culp;Alan Jenkins

  • Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene.

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Antoine Becker-Scarpitta;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

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

    Diana E. Bowler;Anne D. Bjorkman;Maria Dornelas;Isla H. Myers-Smith

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

    Janet Prevéy;Mark Vellend;Nadja Rüger;Robert D. Hollister

  • Species richness change across spatial scales

    Jonathan M. Chase;Brian J. Mcgill;Patrick L. Thompson;Laura H. Antão

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

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;David S. Hik

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Mark Vellend
Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke
David S. Hik
David S. Hik Simon Fraser University
Bruce C. Forbes
Bruce C. Forbes University of Lapland
Martin Wilmking
Martin Wilmking University of Greifswald

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