Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Myers-Smith IH, DS Hik.  Shrub canopies influence tundra soil temperatures and not nutrient dynamics in a manipulative experiment. Submitted to Journal of Ecology, May 2012.


2. Myers-Smith IH, Trefry SA, Swarbrick VJ. Resilience: Easy to use but hard to define. Submitted to Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, May 2012.


3. Myers-Smith IH, DS Hik. Uniform female-biased sex ratios in alpine willows. In review at American Journal of Botany, November 2011.


4. Sarah C. Elmendorf, et al. Tundra vegetation change and recent climate warming: Is there evidence at the plot scale? Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/nclimate1465 http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1465.html


5. Myers-Smith IH, et al. 2011 Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: Dynamics, impacts and research priorities. In press at Environmental Research Letters, 6:045509. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509 http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/045509
   


6. Sarah C. Elmendorf, et al.  2011 Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time. Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01716.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01716.x/abstract
   


7. Myers-Smith IH, DS Hik, C Kennedy, D Cooley, JF Johnstone, AJ Kenney, and CJ Krebs. 2011. Expansion of canopy-forming willows over the twentieth century on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada. Ambio 40:610-623. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r313104741031661/
   


8. Callaghan TV et al. 2011. Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF). Ambio 40: 705-716. http://www.springerlink.com/content/q162412324624t15/


9. van Verseveld WJ, ES Kane, DJ Sobota, IH Myers-Smith, JB Fellman. 2010. 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. DOI:10.1002/eco http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123268963/abstract


10. Myers-Smith IH , JW Harden, AD McGuire, M Wilmking, CC Fuller, and FS Chapin III. 2008. Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst. Biogeosciences 5: 1273-1286. http://www.biogeosciences.net/5/1273/2008/bg-5-1273-2008.pdf


11. Wilmking M and IH Myers-Smith. 2008. Changing climate sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana) in a peatland – forest landscape in Interior Alaska. Dendrochronologia. DOI 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.04.003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2007.04.003


12. Kane ES, EF Betts, AJ Burgin, HM Clilverd, CL Crenshaw, J Fellman, JB Jones, IH Myers-Smith, J O'Donnell, DJ Sobota, and WJ Van Verseveld. 2008  Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import–export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1: 105-117. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120749533/PDFSTART


13. Myers-Smith IH, AD McGuire, JW Harden, and FS Chapin III. 2007. The influence of disturbance on carbon exchange in a permafrost collapse and adjacent burned forest. JGR Biogeosciences 112: G04017, doi:10.1029/2007JG000423 http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007JG000423.shtml


14. Myers-Smith IH, BK Constantine, RM Thompson, and FS Chapin III. 2006. Cumulative impacts on Alaskan arctic tundra of a quarter century of road dust. Écoscience 13: 503-510. http://www.ecoscience.ulaval.ca/catalogue/E_detail.php?id=887&retour=23


15. Smith JNM, MJ Taitt, L Zanette, and IH Myers-Smith. 2003. How do Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) cause nest failures in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia)? A removal experiment. The Auk 120: 772–783. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1642/0004-8038%282003%29120%5B0772:HDBCMA%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Publications in Prep.

Myers-Smith IH, et al. Growth in tundra shrub species: Dendroecology beyond trees.

Myers-Smith IH, DS Hik. Shrubline advance in alpine tundra of the Yukon Territory.

Myers-Smith IH, DS Hik. Temperature sensitive growth in tundra willows of the Yukon Territory.

Myers-Smith IH, M Saunders, DS Hik. Pollen limitation and reproductive effort in alpine willows: the influence of elevation and distance to nearest male.

Other Publications

Myers-Smith IH. 2007. Shrub line advance in alpine tundra of the Kluane region: mechanisms of expansion and ecosystem impacts. Arctic 60: 447-451. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic60-4-447.pdf

Smith JNM, JH Myers, and IH Myers-Smith. 2007. Tips for Effective Communication in Ecology. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 88: 206-215. http://www.esajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1890%2F0012-9623(2007)88%5B206%3ATFECIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Smith JNM, and IH Myers-Smith. 1998. Spatial variation in parasitism of song sparrows by brown-headed cowbirds. Pp. 296-312. In, Brood parasites and their hosts. Rothstein SI, SK Robinson, eds. Oxford University Press, New York.

Theses

Myers-Smith IH. 2011. Shrub encroachment in arctic and alpine tundra: Patterns of expansion and ecosystem impacts. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/2428

Myers-Smith IH. 2005. Carbon exchange and permafrost collapse: Implications for a changing climate. Master’s Thesis. Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.

Myers-Smith IH. 2001. Temporal and small-scale spatial variability in soil CO₂ efflux in two mature Douglas-fir forests and a clearcut in coastal British Columbia. Undergraduate Thesis. Faculty of Agriculture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Bordeleau G, IH Myers-Smith, M Midak, and A Szeremeta. Food Quality: A comparison of organic and conventional fruits and vegetables. Presented for the completion of the SOCRATES course Ecological Agriculture I. Royal Agricultural and Veterinary University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.