Rate My Professor Rodney Dyer

Dyer's research centers on landscape and population genetics, developing tools to assess how the physical configuration of natural and modified landscapes impacts genetic connectivity for native and introduced species. His work involves theoretical and empirical analyses of demographic and evolutionary processes influencing genetic variation. Key publications include "Putting the landscape into the genomics of trees: approaches for understanding local adaptation and population responses to changing climate" (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2013), "Population graphs: the graph theoretic shape of genetic structure" (Molecular Ecology, 2004), "Two‐generation analysis of pollen flow across a landscape. I. Male gamete heterogeneity among females" (Evolution, 2001), "Pollen movement in declining populations of California Valley oak, Quercus lobata: where have all the fathers gone?" (Molecular Ecology, 2002), "Landscape modelling of gene flow: improved power using conditional genetic distance derived from the topology of population networks" (Molecular Ecology, 2010), "GeneticStudio: a suite of programs for spatial analysis of genetic‐marker data" (Molecular Ecology Resources, 2009), and "Not just vicariance: phylogeography of a Sonoran Desert euphorb indicates a major role of range expansion along the Baja peninsula" (Molecular Ecology, 2009). He has developed software tools including GeneticStudio and the R package gstudio for population genetic analysis.