Publications

(SUBMITTED) Anderson, E., Collins, C. G., Elphinstone, C., Norton, C., Yerex, S., & Chartrand, S. (2025). Mapping postglacial succession of coniferous tree species in high elevation ecosystems of British Columbia. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7633992/v1 

In review at Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 

Brochmann, C., Elphinstone, C., Birkeland, S., Ikeda, H., Eidesen, P. B., Alsos, I. G., & Westergaard, K. B. (2025). Phylogeography of Arctic plants: Where are we after 35 years, and where to go? Plant Ecology & Diversity, 0(0), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2025.2571098

Elphinstone, C., Elphinstone, R., Todesco, M., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2025). RepeatOBserver: Tandem Repeat Visualisation and Putative Centromere Detection. Molecular Ecology Resources, From the Cover Article, e14084. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14084

Github link to README and code: https://github.com/celphin/RepeatOBserverV1

Bemmels, J. B., Starko, S., Weigel, B. L., Hirabayashi, K., Pinch, A., Elphinstone, C., Dethier, M. N., Rieseberg, L. H., Page, J. E., Neufeld, C. J., & Owens, G. L. (2025). Population genomics reveals strong impacts of genetic drift without purging and guides conservation of bull and giant kelp. Current Biology, 35(3), 688-698.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.025

Kreiner, J. M., Montgomery, J. S., Todesco, M., Bercovich, N., Gong, Y., Elphinstone, C., Tranel, P. J., Rieseberg, L. H., & Wright, S. I. (2025). The evolution of separate sexes in waterhemp is associated with surprising chromosomal diversity and complexity. PLOS Biology, 23(6), e3003254. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003254

​Wilkinson, M. J., McLay, K., Kainer, D., Elphinstone, C., Dillon, N. L., Webb, M., Wijesundara, U. K., Ali, A., Bally, I. S. E., Munyengwa, N., Furtado, A., Henry, R. J., Hardner, C. M., & Ortiz-Barrientos, D. (2025). Centromeres are hotspots for chromosomal inversions and breeding traits in mango. New Phytologist, 245(2), 899–913.  https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20252

Gallois, E. C., Myers-Smith, I. H., Iversen, C. M., Salmon, V. G., Turner, L. L., An, R., Elmendorf, S. C., Collins, C. G., Anderson, M. J. R., Young, A., Pilkinton, L., Blume-Werry, G., Grenier, M., Fälthammar-de Jong, G., Althuizen, I. H. J., Christiansen, C. T., Lang, S. I., Elphinstone, C., Henry, G. H. R., … Hollister, R. D. (2025). Tundra Vegetation Community Type, Not Microclimate, Controls Asynchrony of Above- and Below-Ground Phenology. Global Change Biology, 31(4), e70153. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70153

Walker, D., Schaepman-Strub, G., Breen, A., Bültmann, H., Dance, M., Elphinstone, C., Elmendorf, S., Epstein, H., Ermokhina, K., Frost, G., Harding, M., Heim, R., Hollister, R., Ickert-Bond, S., Kasanke, S., Khitun, O., MacKenzie, W., McClennan, D., McNeal, B., … Ambrose, K. (2025). The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Science Initiative (CAVSI) White Paper: A framework to help guide the next decade of Arctic vegetation research (2025). https://doi.org/10.18739/A2T43J49W

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

Collins, C., Angert, A., Clark, K., Elmendorf, S., Elphinstone, C., and Henry, G. (2024). Flowering time responses to warming drive reproductive fitness in a changing Arctic. Annals of Botany, mcae007, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae007  (helped collect and organized data, contributed to editing and data analyses)

Chardon, N. I., Stone, P., Hilbert, C., Maclachlan, T., Ragsdale, B., Zhao, A., Goodwin, K., Collins, C. G., Hewitt, N., and Elphinstone, C. (2023). Species-Specific Responses to Human Trampling Indicate Alpine Plant Size Is More Sensitive than Reproduction to Disturbance. Plants, 12(17). doi: 10.3390/plants12173040 (other relevant experience, co-designed/co-led/acquired funding for/hired students/supervised an alpine ecology study in Garibaldi Park in 2022) https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/17/3040

Bock, D. G., Cai, Z., Elphinstone, C., González-Segovia, E., Hirabayashi, K., Huang, K., Keais, G. L., Kim, A., Owens, G. L., and Rieseberg, L. H. (2023). Genomics of plant speciation. Plant Communications. doi: 10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100599 (PhD thesis, co-wrote one section of the review “Sources of genetic variation underlying reproductive isolation”) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590346223001104?via%3Dihub

Hollister, R., Elphinstone, C., Henry, G., Bjorkman, A., Klanderud, K., Björk, R., Björkman, M., Bokhorst, S., Carbognani, M., Cooper, E., Dorrepaal, E., Elmendorf, S., Fetcher, N., Gallois, E., Gudmundsson, J., Healey, N., Jónsdóttir, I., Klarenberg, I., Oberbauer, S., and Wookey, P. (2022). A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network. Arctic Science. doi: 10.1139/AS-2022-0030 (PhD thesis, made/edited figures, co-wrote and edited manuscript) https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2022-0030

Huang, K., Ostevik, K. L., Elphinstone, C., Todesco, M., Bercovich, N., Owens, G. L., and Rieseberg, L. H. (2022). Mutation Load in Sunflower Inversions Is Negatively Correlated with Inversion Heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(5). doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac101 (PhD thesis, identified the centromere locations in sunflower that were used throughout the manuscript) https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/5/msac101/6583099

Rixen C., Hoye T., Macek P., [et al., including Elphinstone C.] (2022) Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra. Arctic Science, 8(3). (analyzed 30-year climate records from Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island)
 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2020-0058

Elphinstone, C., and Henry, G. (2020). Equitable transform applied to phenology and temperature in a changing climate: Scaling to maintain individuality. Ecosphere, 11. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3036 (Honours thesis, designed, wrote and edited manuscript) https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3036

Chen, D., Garmulewicz, A., Merner, C., Elphinstone, C., Leggott, C., and Dewar, H. (2019). Encouraging youth engagement in marine protected areas: A survey of best practices in Canada. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29, 223–232. doi: 10.1002/aqc.3094 (co-wrote and edited manuscript) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.3094

Elphinstone C. and Cheadle, K. (2013) Modeling macronuclear DNA regulation in two ciliates: Paramecium tetraurelia and Tetrahymena thermophile. University of British Columbia. Science One Program. Research Projects, cIRcle. (conducted data analyses, co-wrote and edited manuscript)
https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/44525