Dr Kyle Dexter
Lecturer in Terrestrial Vegetation Ecology
Contact details
- Email: kyle.dexter@ed.ac.uk
Background
Kyle Dexter is an evolutionary ecologist working primarily on tropical trees. In this context, he and his students are usually trying to find ways to quantify the niche of tree species, making phylogenies for those trees, mapping the niches onto phylogenies and assessing how niches have evolved and changed over time. In terms of geobiology and palaeobiology, this is important, because it gives insights into past environments and the response of lineages to past environmental changes.
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Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time
In:
Science Advances, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade4954
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Diversity and Divergence: Evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus Inga
In:
New Phytologist, vol. 237, pp. 631-642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18554
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Incorporating Dead Material in Ecosystem Assessments and Projections
In:
Nature Climate Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01565-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published)