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Kyle G. Dexter publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kyle G. Dexter sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Kyle G. Dexter D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kyle G. Dexter sits on this spectrum.

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56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kyle G. Dexter is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a total of over 200 publications across these domains.

Their work spans various subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Global and Planetary Change; Ecological Modeling; and Plant Science. These subfields reflect a broad engagement with ecological and environmental research questions.

The main topics covered in Dexter's research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Kyle G. Dexter has contributed to multiple publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Diversity

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Dexter cover diverse ecological and evolutionary themes. Notable publications include:

  • "Adaptation and coordinated evolution of plant hydraulic traits," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Freezing and water availability structure the evolutionary diversity of trees across the Americas," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time," 2023, Science Advances

Frequent collaborators in Dexter's research include R. Toby Pennington, Timothy R. Baker, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, James A. Nicholls, and Casey M. Ryan.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • A new subfamily classification of the leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny

    Nasim Azani;Marielle Babineau;C. Donovan Bailey;Hannah Banks

  • Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

    Dryflor;Karina Banda-R;Alfonso Delgado-Salinas;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

    Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar;Kyle G. Dexter;John Lokvam;R. Toby Pennington

  • Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Olivier J. Hardy;C. E. Timothy Paine;C. E. Timothy Paine;Kyle G. Dexter

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Dissecting a biodiversity hotspot: the importance of environmentally marginal habitats in the Atlantic Forest Domain of South America

    Danilo M. Neves;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;R. Toby Pennington;Arthur S. M. Valente

  • Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore-plant system

    María José Endara;Phyllis D. Coley;Gabrielle Ghabash;James A. Nicholls

  • Effects of Quaternary climatic fluctuations on the distribution of Neotropical savanna tree species

    Marcelo Leandro Bueno;R. Toby Pennington;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;Luciana H. Yoshino Kamino

  • Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

    C. E. Timothy Paine;Natalia Norden;Natalia Norden;Jérôme Chave;Pierre‐Michel Forget

  • Using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes to increase phylogenetic resolution in the neotropical rain forest genus Inga (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)

    James A. Nicholls;R. Toby Pennington;Erik J. M. Koenen;Colin E. Hughes

  • Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin.

    Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;Matthew Lavin;Benjamin M. Torke;Alex D. Twyford

  • Inserting Tropical Dry Forests Into the Discussion on Biome Transitions in the Tropics

    Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;R. Toby Pennington;R. Toby Pennington;Ary T. Oliveira-Filho;Marcelo L. Bueno

  • Adaptation and coordinated evolution of plant hydraulic traits

    Pablo Sanchez‐Martinez;Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;Ricardo A. Segovia

  • The environmental triangle of the Cerrado Domain: Ecological factors driving shifts in tree species composition between forests and savannas

    Marcelo Leandro Bueno;Marcelo Leandro Bueno;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter;R. Toby Pennington;R. Toby Pennington;Vanessa Pontara

  • RADseq dataset with 90% missing data fully resolves recent radiation of Petalidium (Acanthaceae) in the ultra-arid deserts of Namibia.

    Erin A. Tripp;Yi‐Hsin Erica Tsai;Yongbin Zhuang;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest

    Varun Swamy;John Terborgh;Kyle G. Dexter;Benjamin D. Best

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Toby Pennington
R. Toby Pennington University of Exeter
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

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