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University of British Columbia: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

2023-07-01 to present | Professor, Research Chair (Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences)
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I H Myers-Smith

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

2013-01-01 to present | Chancellor's Fellow (School of GeoSciences)
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I H Myers-Smith

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University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2006-01-09 to 2011-11-01 | PhD (Department of Biology)
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Snow persistence lowers and delays peak NDVI, the vegetation index that underpins Arctic greening analyses

Environmental Research Letters
2025-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adacff
Contributors: Calum G Hoad; Isla H Myers-Smith; Jeff T Kerby; Claudia Colesie; Jakob J Assmann
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Tundra vegetation community, not microclimate, controls asynchrony of above and belowground phenology

2024-06-24 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/X2332B
Contributors: Elise Gallois; Isla Myers-Smith; Colleen Iversen; Verity Salmon; Laura Turner; Ruby An; Sarah Elmendorf; Courtney Collins; Madelaine Anderson; Amanda Young et al.
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Post-drainage vegetation, microtopography and organic matter in Arctic drained lake basins

Environmental Research Letters
2024-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad2eeb
Contributors: Juliane Wolter; Benjamin M Jones; Matthias Fuchs; Amy Breen; Ingeborg Bussmann; Boris Koch; Josefine Lenz; Isla H Myers-Smith; Torsten Sachs; Jens Strauss et al.
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Summer litter decomposition is moderated by scale‐dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems

Oikos
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/oik.10261
Contributors: Elise C. Gallois; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Gergana N. Daskalova; Jeffrey T. Kerby; Haydn J. D. Thomas; Andrew M. Cunliffe
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Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome

Nature Communications
2023-06-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39573-4
Contributors: Mariana García Criado; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Anne D. Bjorkman; Signe Normand; Anne Blach-Overgaard; Haydn J. D. Thomas; Anu Eskelinen; Konsta Happonen; Juha M. Alatalo; Alba Anadon-Rosell et al.
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Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic

2023-06-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/X2MS4N
Contributors: Mariana García Criado; Isla Myers-Smith; Anne Bjorkman; Sarah Elmendorf; Signe Normand; Peter Aastrup; Rien Aerts; Juha Alatalo; Lander Baeten; Robert Björk et al.
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Incorporating dead material in ecosystem assessments and projections

Nature Climate Change
2023-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01565-5
Contributors: Kelsey Archer Barnhill; J. Murray Roberts; Isla Myers-Smith; Mathew Williams; Kyle G. Dexter; Casey Ryan; Uwe Wolfram; Sebastian J. Hennige
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Summer temperature—but not growing season length—influences radial growth of Salix arctica in coastal Arctic tundra

Polar Biology
2022-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-022-03074-9
Contributors: Joseph S. Boyle; Sandra Angers-Blondin; Jakob J. Assmann; Isla H. Myers-Smith
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Litter decomposition is moderated by scale-dependent microenvironmental variation in tundra ecosystems

2022-04-30 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/CRUP3
Contributors: Elise Gallois; Isla Myers-Smith; Gergana Daskalova; Jeff Kerby; Haydn Thomas; Andrew Cunliffe
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Summer temperature – but not growing season length – influences radial growth of Salix arctica in coastal Arctic tundra

2022-03-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/YDE7F
Contributors: Joseph Boyle; Sandra Angers-Blondin; Jakob Assmann; Isla Myers-Smith
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Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.228
Contributors: Andrew M. Cunliffe; Karen Anderson; Fabio Boschetti; Richard E. Brazier; Hugh A. Graham; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Thomas Astor; Matthias M. Boer; Leonor G. Calvo; Patrick E. Clark et al.
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Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2022-01-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s43017-021-00233-0
Contributors: Monique M. P. D. Heijmans; Rúna Í. Magnússon; Mark J. Lara; Gerald V. Frost; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Jacobus van Huissteden; M. Torre Jorgenson; Alexander N. Fedorov; Howard E. Epstein; David M. Lawrence et al.
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Flower Detection Using Object Analysis: New Ways to Quantify Plant Phenology in a Warming Tundra Biome

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3110365
Contributors: Karol Stanski; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Christopher G. Lucas
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Representation of global change drivers across biodiversity datasets

2021-07-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/DB4S7
Contributors: Gergana Daskalova; Diana Bowler; Isla Myers-Smith; Maria Dornelas
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Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants

Nature Communications
2021-06-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23841-2
Contributors: Courtney G. Collins; Sarah C. Elmendorf; Robert D. Hollister; Greg H. R. Henry; Karin Clark; Anne D. Bjorkman; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Janet S. Prevéy; Isabel W. Ashton; Jakob J. Assmann et al.
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Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

Environmental Research Letters
2021-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf28b
Contributors: Zelalem A Mekonnen; William J Riley; Logan T Berner; Nicholas J Bouskill; Margaret S Torn; Go Iwahana; Amy L Breen; Isla H Myers-Smith; Mariana García Criado; Yanlan Liu et al.
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Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of invertebrate population and biodiversity change: a comment on Seibold et al. 2019

Insect Conservation and Diversity
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12468
Contributors: Gergana N. Daskalova; Albert B. Phillimore; Isla H. Myers‐Smith
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SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

Global Change Biology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123
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2-s2.0-85086643464

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13652486 13541013
Contributors: Lembrechts, J.J.; Aalto, J.; Ashcroft, M.B.; De Frenne, P.; Kopecký, M.; Lenoir, J.; Luoto, M.; Maclean, I.M.D.; Roupsard, O.; Fuentes-Lillo, E. et al.
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Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring

Ambio
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-019-01161-6
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2-s2.0-85064346259

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16547209 00447447
Contributors: Bjorkman, A.D.; García Criado, M.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Ravolainen, V.; Jónsdóttir, I.S.; Westergaard, K.B.; Lawler, J.P.; Aronsson, M.; Bennett, B.; Gardfjell, H. et al.
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TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Global Change Biology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14904
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2-s2.0-85075196338

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13652486 13541013
Contributors: Kattge, J.; Bönisch, G.; Díaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Tautenhahn, S.; Werner, G.D.A.; Aakala, T.; Abedi, M. et al.
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Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-12-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013311117
Contributors: Agata Buchwal; Patrick F. Sullivan; Marc Macias-Fauria; Eric Post; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Julienne C. Stroeve; Daan Blok; Ken D. Tape; Bruce C. Forbes; Pascale Ropars et al.
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Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape

Environmental Research Letters
2020-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba470
Contributors: Andrew M Cunliffe; Jakob J Assmann; Gergana N Daskalova; Jeffrey T Kerby; Isla H Myers-Smith
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Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites

Environmental Research Letters
2020-11-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abbf7d
Contributors: Jakob J Assmann; Isla H Myers-Smith; Jeffrey T Kerby; Andrew M Cunliffe; Gergana N Daskalova
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Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of population and biodiversity change - Response to Seibold et al. 2019 “Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers”

2020-10-11 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/CG3ZS
Contributors: Gergana Daskalova; Isla Myers-Smith; Albert Phillimore
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Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

Nature Communications
2020-09-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18479-5
Contributors: Logan T. Berner; Richard Massey; Patrick Jantz; Bruce C. Forbes; Marc Macias-Fauria; Isla Myers-Smith; Timo Kumpula; Gilles Gauthier; Laia Andreu-Hayles; Benjamin V. Gaglioti et al.
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Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends

Nature Communications
2020-09-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17779-0
Contributors: Gergana N. Daskalova; Isla H. Myers-Smith; John L. Godlee
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Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally

2020-07-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.16.206011
Contributors: A.M. Cunliffe; K. Anderson; F. Boschetti; R.E. Brazier; H.A. Graham; I.H. Myers-Smith; T. Astor; M.M. Boer; L. Calvo; P.E. Clark et al.
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Drone data reveal heterogeneity in tundra greenness and phenology not captured by satellites

2020-07-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/TQEKN
Contributors: Jakob Assmann; Isla Myers-Smith; Jeff Kerby; Andrew Cunliffe; Gergana Daskalova
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Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

People and Nature
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10071
Contributors: Diana E. Bowler; Anne D. Bjorkman; Maria Dornelas; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Laetitia M. Navarro; Aidin Niamir; Sarah R. Supp; Conor Waldock; Marten Winter; Mark Vellend et al.
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Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change

Science
2020-06-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba1289
Contributors: Gergana N. Daskalova; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Anne D. Bjorkman; Shane A. Blowes; Sarah R. Supp; Anne E. Magurran; Maria Dornelas
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Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2020-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13072
Contributors: Mariana García Criado; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Anne D. Bjorkman; Caroline E. R. Lehmann; Nicola Stevens; Marie Josée Fortin
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Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

Nature Communications
2020-03-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4
Contributors: H. J. D. Thomas; A. D. Bjorkman; I. H. Myers-Smith; S. C. Elmendorf; J. Kattge; S. Diaz; M. Vellend; D. Blok; J. H. C. Cornelissen; B. C. Forbes et al.
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Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

Nature Climate Change
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1
Contributors: Isla H. Myers-Smith; Jeffrey T. Kerby; Gareth K. Phoenix; Jarle W. Bjerke; Howard E. Epstein; Jakob J. Assmann; Christian John; Laia Andreu-Hayles; Sandra Angers-Blondin; Pieter S. A. Beck et al.
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Rapid retreat of permafrost coastline observed with aerial drone photogrammetry

Cryosphere
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-13-1513-2019
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2-s2.0-85066320463

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19940424 19940416
Contributors: Cunliffe, A.; Tanski, G.; Radosavljevic, B.; Palmer, W.; Sachs, T.; Lantuit, H.; Kerby, J.; Myers-Smith, I.
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Species richness change across spatial scales

Oikos
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/oik.05968
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2-s2.0-85065913189

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16000706 00301299
Contributors: Chase, J.M.; McGill, B.J.; Thompson, P.L.; Antão, L.H.; Bates, A.E.; Blowes, S.A.; Dornelas, M.; Gonzalez, A.; Magurran, A.E.; Supp, S.R. et al.
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Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12783
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2-s2.0-85056643627

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14668238 1466822X
Contributors: Thomas, H.J.D.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Bjorkman, A.D.; Elmendorf, S.C.; Blok, D.; Cornelissen, J.H.C.; Forbes, B.C.; Hollister, R.D.; Normand, S.; Prevéy, J.S. et al.
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Vegetation monitoring using multispectral sensors — best practices and lessons learned from high latitudes

Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1139/juvs-2018-0018
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2-s2.0-85082714240

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22913467
Contributors: Assmann, J.J.; Kerby, J.T.; Cunliffe, A.M.; Myers-Smith, I.H.
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The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

Science
2019-10-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1620
Contributors: Shane A. Blowes; Sarah R. Supp; Laura H. Antão; Amanda Bates; Helge Bruelheide; Jonathan M. Chase; Faye Moyes; Anne Magurran; Brian McGill; Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.
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Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra

Global Change Biology
2019-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14639
Contributors: Jakob J. Assmann; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Albert B. Phillimore; Anne D. Bjorkman; Richard E. Ennos; Janet S. Prevéy; Greg H. R. Henry; Niels M. Schmidt; Robert D. Hollister
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Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

Ecological Monographs
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1351
Contributors: Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Meagan M. Grabowski; Haydn J. D. Thomas; Sandra Angers‐Blondin; Gergana N. Daskalova; Anne D. Bjorkman; Andrew M. Cunliffe; Jakob J. Assmann; Joseph S. Boyle; Edward McLeod et al.
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Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2019-03-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0859-5
Contributors: Janet S. Prevéy; Christian Rixen; Nadja Rüger; Toke T. Høye; Anne D. Bjorkman; Isla H. Myers-Smith; Sarah C. Elmendorf; Isabel W. Ashton; Nicoletta Cannone; Chelsea L. Chisholm et al.
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Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations

Science Advances
2019-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4403
Contributors: A. L. Hargreaves; Esteban Suárez; Klaus Mehltreter; Isla Myers-Smith; Sula E. Vanderplank; Heather L. Slinn; Yalma L. Vargas-Rodriguez; Sybille Haeussler; Santiago David; Jenny Muñoz et al.
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Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

2019-02-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/MZYJK
Contributors: Isla Myers-Smith; Jeff Kerby; Gareth Phoenix; Jarle Bjerke; Howard Epstein; Jakob Assmann; Christian John; Laia Andreu-Hayles; Sandra Angers-Blodin; Pieter Beck
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A Warmer and greener cold world: Summer warming increases shrub growth in the alpine and high arctic tundra

Erdkunde
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3112/ERDKUNDE.2018.01.04
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2-s2.0-85050654885
Contributors: Weijers, S.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Löffler, J.
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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12729
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2-s2.0-85047177487
Contributors: Dornelas, M.; Antão, L.H.; Moyes, F.; Bates, A.E.; Magurran, A.E.; Adam, D.; Akhmetzhanova, A.A.; Appeltans, W.; Arcos, J.M.; Arnold, H. et al.
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Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

Journal of Ecology
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12817
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WOS:000425046300009
Contributors: Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Hik, David S.
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Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection"

Science
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5028
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WOS:000423283200001
Contributors: Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Myers, Judith H.
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Contrasting shrub species respond to early summer temperatures leading to correspondence of shrub growth patterns

Environmental Research Letters
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaa5b8
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WOS:000425649600001
Contributors: Weijers, Stef; Pape, Roland; Loeffler, Joerg; Myers-Smith, Isla H.
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Correction to: Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome (Polar Biology, (2017), 40, 11, (2265-2278), 10.1007/s00300-017-2139-7)

Polar Biology
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-018-2305-6
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2-s2.0-85043535368
Contributors: Barrio, I.C.; Lindén, E.; Te Beest, M.; Olofsson, J.; Rocha, A.; Soininen, E.M.; Alatalo, J.M.; Andersson, T.; Asmus, A.; Boike, J. et al.
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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Nature Ecology and Evolution
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
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2-s2.0-85056991288

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2397334X
Contributors: Bruelheide, H.; Dengler, J.; Purschke, O.; Lenoir, J.; Jiménez-Alfaro, B.; Hennekens, S.M.; Botta-Dukát, Z.; Chytrý, M.; Field, R.; Jansen, F. et al.
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