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Plant traits inform predictions of tundra responses to global change by Myers-Smith, Isla H., Thomas, Haydn J. D., Bjorkman, Anne D.

“…In the rapidly warming tundra biome, plant traits provide an essential link between ongoing vegetation change and feedbacks to key ecosystem functions…”
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synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands by Turetsky, Merritt R, Kotowska, Agnieszka, Bubier, Jill, Dise, Nancy B, Crill, Patrick, Hornibrook, Ed R. C, Minkkinen, Kari, Moore, Tim R, Myers‐Smith, Isla H, Nykänen, Hannu, Olefeldt, David, Rinne, Janne, Saarnio, Sanna, Shurpali, Narasinha, Tuittila, Eeva‐Stiina, Waddington, J. Michael, White, Jeffrey R, Wickland, Kimberly P, Wilmking, Martin

“…Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane. Here, we assess controls on methane flux using a database of approximately 19 000 instantaneous…”
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Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities by Vellend, Mark, Srivastava, Diane S., Anderson, Kathryn M., Brown, Carissa D., Jankowski, Jill E., Kleynhans, Elizabeth J., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Letaw, Alathea D., Macdonald, A. Andrew M., Maclean, Janet E., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Norris, Andrea R., Xue, Xinxin

“…A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure…”
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Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change by Myers-Smith, Isla H., Grabowski, Meagan M., Thomas, Haydn J. D., Angers-Blondin, Sandra, Daskalova, Gergana N., Bjorkman, Anne D., Cunliffe, Andrew M., Assmann, Jakob J., Boyle, Joseph S., McLeod, Edward, McLeod, Samuel, Joe, Ricky, Lennie, Paden, Arey, Deon, Gordon, Richard R., Eckert, Cameron D.

“…The Arctic tundra is warming rapidly, yet the exact mechanisms linking warming and observed ecological changes are often unclear. Understanding mechanisms of…”
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Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra by Assmann, Jakob J., Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Phillimore, Albert B., Bjorkman, Anne D., Ennos, Richard E., Prevéy, Janet S., Henry, Greg H. R., Schmidt, Niels M., Hollister, Robert D.

“…The Arctic is undergoing dramatic environmental change with rapidly rising surface temperatures, accelerating sea ice decline and changing snow regimes, all of…”
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Trait covariance: the functional warp of plant diversity? by Walker, Anthony P, McCormack, M Luke, Messier, Julie, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Wullschleger, Stan D

“…In 300 BC Ancient Greece, Theophrastus was one of the first to organize the diversity of plant life on Earth into categories of function and use (Theophrastus,…”
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Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance by Myers-Smith, Isla H., Hik, David S.

“…1. Climate warming is predicted to alter ecological boundaries in high-latitude ecosystems including the elevational or latitudinal extent of tall shrubs in…”
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Transitions in Arctic ecosystems: Ecological implications of a changing hydrological regime by Wrona, Frederick J., Johansson, Margareta, Culp, Joseph M., Jenkins, Alan, Mård, Johanna, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Prowse, Terry D., Vincent, Warwick F., Wookey, Philip A.

“…Numerous international scientific assessments and related articles have, during the last decade, described the observed and potential impacts of climate change…”
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The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages by Blowes, Shane A, Supp, Sarah R, Antão, Laura H, Bates, Amanda, Bruelheide, Helge, Chase, Jonathan M, Moyes, Faye, Magurran, Anne, McGill, Brian, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D, Bowler, Diana E, Byrnes, Jarrett E K, Gonzalez, Andrew, Hines, Jes, Isbell, Forest, Jones, Holly P, Navarro, Laetitia M, Thompson, Patrick L, Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, Dornelas, Maria

“…Human activities are fundamentally altering biodiversity. Projections of declines at the global scale are contrasted by highly variable trends at local scales,…”
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Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene by Vellend, Mark, Baeten, Lander, Becker-Scarpitta, Antoine, Boucher-Lalonde, Véronique, McCune, Jenny L, Messier, Julie, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Sax, Dov F

“…Plant communities have undergone dramatic changes in recent centuries, although not all such changes fit with the dominant biodiversity-crisis narrative used…”
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Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time by Vellend, Mark, Baeten, Lander, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Elmendorf, Sarah C., Beauséjour, Robin, Brown, Carissa D., De Frenne, Pieter, Verheyen, Kris, Wipf, Sonja

“…Global biodiversity is in decline. This is of concern for aesthetic and ethical reasons, but possibly also for practical reasons, as suggested by experimental…”
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Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes by García Criado, Mariana, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Bjorkman, Anne D., Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Stevens, Nicola, Josée Fortin, Marie

“…Aim Biomes worldwide are shifting with global change. Biomes whose extents are limited by temperature or precipitation, such as the tundra and savanna, may be…”
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Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends by Daskalova, Gergana N., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Godlee, John L.

“…The Earth’s biota is changing over time in complex ways. A critical challenge is to test whether specific biomes, taxa or types of species benefit or suffer in…”
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Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change by Daskalova, Gergana N., Myers-Smith, Isla H., Bjorkman, Anne D., Blowes, Shane A., Supp, Sarah R., Magurran, Anne E., Dornelas, Maria

“…Land-use change and forest biodiversity Land-use change by humans, particularly forest loss, is influencing Earth's biodiversity through time. To assess the…”
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Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance by Mekonnen, Zelalem A, Riley, William J, Berner, Logan T, Bouskill, Nicholas J, Torn, Margaret S, Iwahana, Go, Breen, Amy L, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Criado, Mariana García, Liu, Yanlan, Euskirchen, Eugénie S, Goetz, Scott J, Mack, Michelle C, Grant, Robert F

“…Abstract Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra are some of the most important and widely observed…”
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Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny by Vellend, Mark, Dornelas, Maria, Baeten, Lander, Beauséjour, Robin, Brown, Carissa D., De Frenne, Pieter, Elmendorf, Sarah C., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Moyes, Faye, Myers-Smith, Isla H., Magurran, Anne E., McGill, Brian J., Shimadzu, Hideyasu, Sievers, Caya

“…We present new data and analyses revealing fundamental flaws in a critique of two recent meta-analyses of local-scale temporal biodiversity change. First, the…”
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Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow–shrub interactions by Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Hik, David S.

“…Shrubs are the largest plant life form in tundra ecosystems; therefore, any changes in the abundance of shrubs will feedback to influence biodiversity,…”
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Historical ecology: Using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change by Vellend, Mark, Brown, Carissa D., Kharouba, Heather M., McCune, Jenny L., Myers-Smith, Isla H.

“…Predicting the future ecological impact of global change drivers requires understanding how these same drivers have acted in the past to produce the plant…”
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Species richness change across spatial scales by Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., Thompson, Patrick L., Antão, Laura H., Bates, Amanda E., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, Maria, Gonzalez, Andrew, Magurran, Anne E., Supp, Sarah R., Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bruelheide, Helge, Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Elahi, Robin, Gomez, Catalina, Guzman, Hector M., Isbell, Forest, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Jones, Holly P., Hines, Jes, Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, O'Connor, Mary

“…Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of…”
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Contrasting shrub species respond to early summer temperatures leading to correspondence of shrub growth patterns by Weijers, Stef, Pape, Roland, Löffler, Jörg, Myers-Smith, Isla H

“…The Arctic-alpine biome is warming rapidly, resulting in a gradual replacement of low statured species by taller woody species in many tundra ecosystems. In…”
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