Botanist
Kevin R. Thiele is currently an adjunct associate professor at the University of Western Australia [ 1] and the director of Taxonomy Australia.[ 2] He was the curator of the Western Australian Herbarium from 2006 to 2015.[ 3] [ 2] His research interests include the systematics of the plant families Proteaceae , Rhamnaceae and Violaceae , and the conservation ecology of grassy woodland ecosystems .[ 3] He also works in biodiversity informatics ,[ 3] developing and teaching the development of interactive multi-access keys ,[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] and has been involved in the design of software for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility .[ 3]
He obtained a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1993, and has since published many papers, notably a treatment of the Rhamnaceae for the Flora of Australia series of monographs,[ 3] and, with Pauline Ladiges, a taxonomic arrangement of Banksia .[ 8] In 2007 he collaborated with Austin Mast to transfer Dryandra to Banksia .[ 9] More recently, he has worked on pollination systems,[ 10] taxonomy,[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] vegetation dynamics,[ 15] [ 16] and described further new species.[ 17] [ 18]
He has contributed over 2000 images to Wikipedia Commons of Western Australian plants and weeds.[ 19]
^ "Kevin Thiele" . the UWA Profiles and Research Repository . Retrieved 28 March 2020 .
^ a b "LinkedIn: Kevin Thiele" . LinkedIn . Retrieved 1 May 2020 .
^ a b c d e "Kevin Thiele" . Naturebase . Department of Environment and Conservation , Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2007 .
^ "Eubio: Kevin Thiele CV" (PDF) . Eubio .
^ Hollister, C. & Thiele, K.R. (11 July 2013). "Key to the Haemodoraceae of Western Australia" . keys.lucidcentral.org . Retrieved 28 March 2020 . {{cite web }}
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^ "Lucid training workshop" . Centre for Biodiversity Analysis . Australian National University. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2020 .
^ M.D. Barrett, B.M.Anderson, K.R. Thiele (5 June 2017). "SPIKEY: An interactive key to Triodia spinifex grasses of the Pilbara, Western Australia Version" . Welcome to Identic . Retrieved 2 May 2020 . {{cite web }}
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^ Thiele, Kevin; Pauline Y. Ladiges (1996). "A Cladistic Analysis of Banksia (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany . 9 (5): 661–733. doi :10.1071/SB9960661 .
^ Mast, Austin R. and Kevin Thiele (2007). "The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany . 20 (1): 63–71. doi :10.1071/SB06016 .
^ Kwiatkowska, M.; Bohdanowicz, J.; Cubała, M.; Słomka, A.; Żabicka, J.; Żabicki, P.; Migdałek, G.; Marcussen, T.; Thiele, K.; Kuta, E. (2019). "A new pollination system in non-cleistogamous species of Viola results from nyctinastic (night-closing) petal movements – A mixed outcrossing-selfing strategy". Flora . 253 : 1–9. doi :10.1016/j.flora.2019.01.007 . S2CID 91905838 .
^ Hammer, Timothy A.; Macintyre, Paul D.; Nge, Francis J.; Davis, Robert W.; Mucina, Ladislav; Thiele, Kevin R. (2018). "The noble and the exalted: a multidisciplinary approach to resolving a taxonomic controversy within Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae)" . Australian Systematic Botany . 31 (3): 262. doi :10.1071/SB17062 . ISSN 1030-1887 . S2CID 92393400 .
^ Thiele, K.R. (2019). "A revision of the Hibbertia commutata (Dilleniaceae) species group". Australian Systematic Botany . 32 (1): 71–109. doi :10.1071/SB18007 . S2CID 181395207 .
^ Hammer, T.A.; Zhong, X.; Colas des Francs‐Small, C.; Nevill, P.G.; Small, I.D.; Thiele, K.R. (2019). "Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology" . Taxon . 68 (2): 297–314. doi :10.1002/tax.12054 . ISSN 0040-0262 . S2CID 201203838 .
^ Takawira-Nyenya, R.; Mucina, L.; Cardinal-Mcteague, W.M.; Thiele, K.R. (22 November 2018). "Sansevieria (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae) is a herbaceous clade within Dracaena: inference from non-coding plastid and nuclear DNA sequence data" . Phytotaxa . 376 (6): 254. doi :10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.2 . ISSN 1179-3163 . S2CID 92577775 .
^ Anderson, B.M.; Thiele, K.R.; Grierson, P.F.; Krauss, S.L.; Nevill, P.G.; Small, I.D.; Zhong, X.; Barrett, M.D. (2019). "Recent range expansion in Australian hummock grasses (Triodia) inferred using genotyping-by-sequencing" . AoB Plants . 11 (2): plz017. doi :10.1093/aobpla/plz017 . ISSN 2041-2851 . PMC 6481909 . PMID 31037212 .
^ Gosper, C.R.; Yates, C.J.; Cook, G.D.; Harvey, J.M.; Liedloff, A.C.; McCaw, W.L.; Thiele, K.R.; Prober, S.M. (2018). "A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia". Austral Ecology . 43 (6): 681–695. doi :10.1111/aec.12613 .
^ Hammer, Timothy A.; Davis, Robert W.; Thiele, Kevin R. (2019). "Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex" . Australian Systematic Botany . 32 (1): 61–70. doi :10.1071/SB18065 . ISSN 1030-1887 .
^ Thiele, K.R. (2019). "Two new Western Australian species segregated from Banksia densa (Proteaceae)" (PDF) . Nuytsia . 30 : 203–214.
^ Wikimedia commons - Category: Photographs by Kevin Thiele
^ International Plant Names Index . K.R.Thiele .