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Isla Myers-Smith
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Latest papers
Molecular Footprints of Quaternary Climate Fluctuations in the Circumpolar Tundra Shrub Dwarf Birch.
Molecular ecology · 2025
Airborne imaging spectroscopy surveys of Arctic and boreal Alaska and northwestern Canada 2017-2023.
Scientific data · 2025
Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems: a systematic review.
Environmental evidence · 2024
Latest funding
- $62,000
Tundra plant community responses to a rapidly warming Arctic
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $17,500
Tundra plant community responses to a rapidly warming Arctic
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $1,901,336
Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Molecular Footprints of Quaternary Climate Fluctuations in the Circumpolar Tundra Shrub Dwarf Birch.
Dance M, Saupe EE, Borrell J, Eidesen PB, Ackerman D, Assmann J, Forbes BC, Gurskaya M, Høye TT, Karlsen SR, Kumpula T, Lamentowicz M, Loranty MM, Myers-Smith I, Prevéy J, Rixen C, Schaepman-Strub G, Słowiński M, Słowińska S, Sokolov A, Speed JDM, Spiegel M, Wilmking M, Macias-Fauria M
Airborne imaging spectroscopy surveys of Arctic and boreal Alaska and northwestern Canada 2017-2023.
Miller CE, Green RO, Thompson DR, Thorpe AJ, Eastwood ML, McCubbin IB, Oslon-Duvall W, Bernas MA, Sarture CM, Rios LM, Hernandez MA, Bue BD, Lundeen SR, Pavlick R, Chapman JW, Brodrick PG, Eckert RF, Willow Coleman R, Baskaran L, Elder CD, Townsend PA, Kovach KR, Serbin SP, Huemmrich KF, Nelson PR, Bhatt U, Macander MJ, Singh D, Thornton M, Yang D, Myers-Smith I, Goetz SJ, Hoy EE, Larson E, Hodkinson D, Margolis HA, Falkowski M, Applejohn A, Griffith PC
Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems: a systematic review.
Barbero-Palacios L, Barrio IC, García Criado M, Kater I, Petit Bon M, Kolari THM, Bjørkås R, Trepel J, Lundgren E, Björnsdóttir K, Hwang BC, Bartra-Cabré L, Defourneaux M, Ramsay J, Lameris TK, Leffler AJ, Lock JG, Kuoppamaa MS, Kristensen JA, Bjorkman AD, Myers-Smith I, Lecomte N, Axmacher JC, Gilg O, Den Herder M, Pagneux EP, Skarin A, Sokolova N, Windirsch T, Wheeler HC, Serrano E, Virtanen T, Hik DS, Kaarlejärvi E, Speed JDM, Soininen EM
Tundra plant community responses to a rapidly warming Arctic
Principal investigators: Myers-Smith, Isla
Keywords: tundra; plants; biodiversity; phenology; climate change; permafrost; shrubs; plant traits; plant functions; carbon
Tundra plant community responses to a rapidly warming Arctic
Principal investigators: Myers-Smith, Isla
Keywords: tundra; plants; biodiversity; phenology; climate change; permafrost; shrubs; plant traits; plant functions; carbon
Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems
Principal investigators: Myers-Smith, Isla
Keywords: global change; climate change; Arctic; tundra; boreal; vegetation; wildlife; phenology; biodiversity; carbon
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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