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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Net diversification rates of the woody plant genus Petalidium (Acanthaceae) are highest in the ancient and arid Namib Desert
In:
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1193728
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Range restricted old and young lineages show the southern Western Ghats to be both a museum and a cradle of diversity for woody plants
In:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
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)