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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]
Kevin R. Thiele | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | K.R.Thiele |
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]
Scholia has a profile for Kevin Thiele (Q547084).
- 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. ISSN 0367-2530. S2CID 91905838.
- Hammer, T.A.; Davis, R.W.; Thiele, K.R. (2019). "Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex". Australian Systematic Botany. doi:10.1071/SB18065. ISSN 1030-1887.
- 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.
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