Kevin Thiele

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Kevin R. Thiele
Born1959 (age 65–66)
EducationPh.D.
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Author abbrev. (botany) K.R.Thiele

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, Violaceae and Dilleniaceae 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]

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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]

In 2021, Kevin Thiele and Tim Hammer submitted a proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants to allow the rejection of offensive scientific names. [19] [20] [21]

He has contributed over 2000 images to Wikipedia Commons of Western Australian plants and weeds. [22]

The standard author abbreviation K.R.Thiele is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [23]

Selected recent publications

Some taxa authored by K.R.Thiele

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin Thiele". the UWA Profiles and Research Repository. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 "LinkedIn: Kevin Thiele". LinkedIn. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kevin Thiele". Naturebase. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
  4. ↑ "Eubio: Kevin Thiele CV" (PDF). Eubio.
  5. ↑ Hollister, C. & Thiele, K.R. (11 July 2013). "Key to the Haemodoraceae of Western Australia". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 28 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Lucid training workshop". Centre for Biodiversity Analysis. Australian National University. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. ↑ 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}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Thiele, Kevin; Pauline Y. Ladiges (1996). "A Cladistic Analysis of Banksia (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 9 (5): 661–733. doi:10.1071/SB9960661.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ Thiele, K.R. (2019). "Two new Western Australian species segregated from Banksia densa (Proteaceae)" (PDF). Nuytsia. 30: 203–214.
  19. ↑ "Meet Hitler's beetle — the species going extinct because of its name". ABC News. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  20. ↑ Hammer, Timothy A.; Thiele, Kevin R. (2021). "(119–122) Proposals to amend Articles 51 and 56 and Division III, to allow the rejection of culturally offensive and inappropriate names". TAXON. 70 (6): 1392–1394. doi:10.1002/tax.12620. ISSN   1996-8175.
  21. ↑ "When Species Names Are Offensive, Should They Be Changed?". Yale E360. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  22. ↑ Wikimedia commons - Category: Photographs by Kevin Thiele
  23. ↑ International Plant Names Index. K.R.Thiele.
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