Dr Isla Myers-Smith
Chancellor's Fellow
Contact details
- Email: Isla.Myers-Smith@ed.ac.uk
Background
I study the influence of warming climate on tundra vegetation in northern ecosystems. In particular, I investigate the spread of willows and other shrub species into arctic and alpine tundra. Shrubs have the potential to restructure tundra ecosystems by changing ecosystem functions and creating feedbacks to climate warming that could further the increase of shrubs. I collaborate with researchers working at sites around the circumpolar Arctic to synthesize our combined data to better understand vegetation change in tundra ecosystems.
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Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends
In:
Nature Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17779-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape
In:
Environmental Research Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba470
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change
In:
Science, vol. 368, pp. 1341-1347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba1289
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)