Insular habitats, such as true islands or patchy mountain meadows, are both valuable natural laboratories and vulnerable biodiversity hotspots. Populations and communities in these habitats may be especially vulnerable to climate change. As a PhD candidate in the Ackerly Lab (Dept. of Integrative Biology), Kyle studies past and future responses of insular plant populations and communities to climate change. Drawing on ecoinformatic databases, common garden studies, and landscape genomics, his work spans spatial, temporal, and phylogenetic scales to understand how climate change will shape future biodiversity in islands and island-like habitats.