Isla H. Myers-Smith

Publications in cryosphere research affiliated to University of Edinburgh:

Dance, M., E. E. Saupe, J. Borrell, P. Bronken Eidesen, D. Ackerman, J. Assmann, B. C. Forbes, M. Gurskaya, T. T. Høye, S. R. Karlsen, T. Kumpula, M. Lamentowicz, M. M. Loranty, I. Myers-Smith, J. Prevéy, C. Rixen, G. Schaepman-Strub, M. Słowiński, S. Słowińska, A. Sokolov, J. D. M. Speed, M. Spiegel, M. Wilmking & M. Macias-Fauria (2025, October) Molecular footprints of Quaternary climate fluctuations in the circumpolar tundra shrub dwarf birch. Molecular Ecology, 34 (19), e70082. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70082.

Hoad, C. G., I. H. Myers-Smith, J. T. Kerby, C. Colesie & J. J. Assmann (2025, March) Snow persistence lowers and delays peak NDVI, the vegetation index that underpins Arctic greening analyses. Environmental Research Letters, 20 (3), 034019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adacff.

Elphinstone, C., F. Hernández, M. Todesco, J. S. Légaré, W. Cheung, P. C. Sokoloff, A. Hofgaard, C. T. Christiansen, E. R. Frei, E. Lévesque, G. N. Daskalova, H. J. D. Thomas, I. H. Myers-Smith, J. A. Harris, J. M. Saarela, J. L. May, J. Obst, J. Boike, K. Clark, K. MacIntosh, K. R. Betway-May, L. Case, M. P. Björkman, M. L. Moody, N. M. Schmidt, P. Molgaard, R. G. Bjoerk, R. D. Hollister, R. D. Bull, S. Agger, V. Maire, G. H. R. Henry & L. H. Rieseberg (2024, October) Multiple Pleistocene refugia for Arctic Bell-Heather revealed with genomic analyses of modern and historic plants. Journal of Biogeography, 51 (10), 1958-1973. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14961.

Rixen, C., T. T. Høye, P. Macek, R. Aerts, J. M. Alatalo, J. T. Anderson, P. A. Arnold, I. C. Barrio, J. W. Bjerke, M. P. Björkman, D. Blok, G. Blume-Werry, J. Boike, S. Bokhorst, M. Carbognani, C. T. Christiansen, P. Convey, E. J. Cooper, J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. J. Coulson, E. Dorrepaal, B. Elberling, S. C. Elmendorf, C. Elphinstone, T. G. W. Forte, E. R. Frei, S. R. Geange, F. Gerhrmann, C. Gibson, P. Grogan, A. H. Halbritter, J. Harte, G. H. R. Henry, D. W. Inouye, R. E. Irwin, G. Jespersen, I. S. Jónsdóttir, J. Y. Jung, D. H. Klinges, G. Kudo, J. Lämsä, H. Lee, J. J. Lembrechts, S. Lett, J. S. Lynn, H. M. R. Mann, M. Mastepanov, J. Morse, I. H. Myers-Smith, J. Olofsson, R. Paavola, A. Petraglia, G. K. Phoenix, P. Semenchuk, M. B. Siewert, R. Slatyer, M. J. Spasojevic, K. Suding, P. Sullivan, K. L. Thompson, M. Väisänen, V. Vandvik, S. Venn, J. Walz, R. Way, J. M. Welker, S. Wipf & S. W. Zong (2022, September) Winters are changing: Snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems. Arctic Science, 8 (3), 572-608. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0058.

Heijmans, M. M. P. D., R. I. Magnússon, M. J. Lara, G. V. Frost, I. H. Myers-Smith, J. van Huissteden, M. T. Jorgenson, A. N. Fedorov, H. E. Epstein, D. M. Lawrence & J. Limpens (2022, January 11) Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3 (1), 68-84. https://doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00233-0.

Buchwal, A., P. F. Sullivan, M. Macias-Fauria, E. Post, I. H. Myers-Smith, J. C. Stroeve, D. Blok, K. D. Tape, B. C. Forbes, P. Ropars, E. Lévesque, B. Elberling, S. Angers-Blondin, J. S. Boyle, S. Boudreau, N. Boulanger-Lapointe, C. Gamm, M. Hallinger, G. Rachlewicz, A. Young, P. Zetterberg & J. M. Welker (2020, December 29) Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea-ice decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (52), 33334-33344. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013311117.

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

Wolter, J., H. Lantuit, M. Fritz, M. Macias-Fauria, I. Myers-Smith & U. Herzschuh (2016, June 17) Vegetation composition and shrub extent on the Yukon coast, Canada, are strongly linked to ice-wedge polygon degradation. Polar Research, 35, 27489. https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.27489.

Myers-Smith, I. H. & D. S. Hik (2013, October) Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions. Ecology and Evolution, 3 (11), 3683-3700. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.710.