Staff profile

Dr Adela Harvey

First Year Prac. Coordinator

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Botany

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Area of study

Botany

Brief profile

I am a Marine Botanist focusing on the taxonomy, systematics and biodiversity of Coralline Red Algae in Australia. Understanding the biodiversity of coralline algae (what species occur where and how to tell them apart) will help us elucidate the important role these algae play in the marine environment.

A second focus is studying and describing the community structure of rhodolith beds. These relatively newly described habitats are constructed by coralline red algae. Understanding what coralline species make up these beds and their interrelationship with marine invertebrates has important implications for rhodolith bed conservation and management.  

 In addition I teach into first year biology subjects both as a Practical Co-ordinator and Casual Lecturer.  

 Research Focus 

 (1) Taxonomy and Systematics of Coralline Red Algae

(2) Assessing the biodiversity of Coralline Red Algae in Australia

(3) Community structure of marine rhodolith beds

Teaching units

BIO1OF – Organisation and Function (Practical Co-ordinator)

BIO1PS – Plants Science (Practical Co-ordinator)

BOT3ESE - Ecology, Systematics and Evolution (Lecturer)

Recent publications

Journal articles

Woelkerling, W.J. and Harvey, A.S. (1992). Mesophyllum incisum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) in southern Australia: implications for generic and specific delimitation in the Melobesioideae. British Phycological Journal: 27, 381-399. (now European Journal of Phycology)   ·        

Woelkerling, W.J; Irvine, L.M. and Harvey, A.S. (1993). Growth-forms in non-geniculate coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany: 6, 277-293.   ·        

Woelkerling, W.J. and Harvey, A. (1993). An account of southern Australian species of Mesophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany:  6 (6), 571-637.   ·        

 Harvey, A.S; Woelkerling, W.J. and Wilkes, K.M. (1994). The genus Synarthrophyton (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) in southern Australia. Phycologia: 33(5), 331-342.   ·        

Phillips, J.A; Clayton, M.N and Harvey, A. (1994). Comparative studies on sporangial distribution and structure in species of Zonaria, Lobophora and Homeoeostrichus (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from Australia. European Journal of Phycology: 29, 93-101.   ·        

Townsend, R.A.; Woelkerling, W.J; Harvey, A.S. and Borowitzka, M. (1995). An account of the red algal genus Sporolithon (Sporolithaceae, Corallinales) in Southern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany : 8, 85-121.   ·        

Harvey, A S. and Woelkerling W.J. (1995). An account of Austrolithon intumescens gen. et sp. nov. and Boreolithon van-heurckii (Heydrich) gen. et comb. nov. (Austrolithoideae subfam. nov., Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia: 34(5), 362-382.   ·        

Ringeltaube P. & Harvey A. (2000). Non-geniculate coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef (Australia). Botanica Marina: 43, 431-454   ·        

Harvey, A.S., Woelkerling, Wm J. & Millar, A.J. (2002). The Sporolithaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia: taxonomy and 18S rRNA phylogeny. Phycologia: 41(3), 207-227   ·        

Broadwater S.T., Harvey A.S., LaPoint, E.A. and Woelkerling Wm. J. (2002). Conceptacle structure of the parasitic coralline red alga Choreonema thuretii (Corallinales) and its taxonomic implications. Journal of Phycology: 38 (6), 1157-1168.          

Harvey, A, Broadwater, S., Woelkerling, Wm J. & Mitrovski P. (2003). Choreonema (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): 18S rRNA phylogeny and resurrection of the Hapalidiaceae for the subfamilies Choreonematoideae, Austrolithoideae and Melobesioideae. Journal of Phycology: 39 (5), 988-998 . ·        

Harvey A.S., Woelkerling Wm J. & Millar A.J.K. (2003). An account of the Hapalidiaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany: 16, 647-698.   ·        

 Harvey A.S., Phillips L.E., Woelkerling Wm J. & Millar A.J.K. (2006). The Corallinaceae, subfamily Mastophoroideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany: 19, 387-429.   ·        

Harvey A.S. & Woelkerling Wm J. (2007). A guide to non-geniculate coralline red algal (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) rhodolith identification. Ciencias Marinas: 33(4), 411-426   ·        

Broom J.E., Hart D.R., Farr T.J., Neill K.F. Nelson W.A., Harvey A.S., & Woelkerling Wm J. (2008). Utility of psbA and nSSU for phylogenetic reconstruction in the Corallinales based on New Zealand taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 46. 958-973.   ·        

Woelkerling Wm J. Millar A.J.K., Harvey A. & Baba M. (2008). Recognition of Pachyarthron and Bossiella as distinct genera in the Corallinaceae, subfamily Corallinoideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia: 47(3), 265-293.   ·        

Harvey A.S. & Bird, F.L. (2008). Community structure of a rhodolith bed from cold-temperate waters (southern Australia). Australian Journal of Botany 56, 437-450.   ·        

Harvey A.S., Woelkerling Wm J. & Millar A.J.K. (2009). The genus Amphiroa (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) from the temperate coasts of the Australian continent, including the newly described A. klochkovana. Phycologia: 48, 258-290.   ·        

 Harvey A.S., Woelkerling Wm J. & Millar A.J.K. (2009). The genus Lithophyllum (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia, with the description of L. riosmenae, sp. nov.. Australian Systematic Botany: 22, 296-317.   ·        

Yucel, R., Bird, F.L., Blanskby, T.M., Valenta, K., Gendall, A.R., Plummer, K.M., Malone, B.S. and Harvey A.S. (2009). A broad based, grass-roots, community of practice achieving curriculum reform in first year biology. Journal of Academic Language & Learning 3 (2), A1-A10.   ·        

Woelkerling Wm J & Harvey A.S. (2012). Lectotypification and epitypification of the type species of Amphiroa, A. tribulus (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 51(1). 113-117.   ·        

Woelkerling Wm J., Harvey A.S. & de Reviers B. (2012). Neotypification and taxonomic status of Amphiroa crassa (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie Algologie 33(4). 339-358.  

 

Books ·        

Harvey A., Woelkerling W., Farr T., Neill K. & Nelson W. (2005). Coralline algae of central New Zealand: an identification guide to common ‘crustose’ species. NIWA Information Series No. 57, Wellington, New Zealand. 145 pp. ISSN 1174-264X. 

 

Book Chapters ·        

Woelkerling W. J. & Harvey A. S. (1996). Subfamily Austrolithoideae. In: The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIB. Edited by H.B.S. Womersley. Published by the Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.  

 

Booklets ·        

Bird, F., Blanksby, T., Gendall, T., Harvey, A., Malone, B., Plummer, K., Yucel, R. and Valenta, K. (2009). First Year Survival Guide. Printed by Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering.   ·        

Bird, F., Blanksby, T., Gendall, T., Harvey, A., Malone, B., Plummer, K., Yucel, R. and Valenta, K. (2010). First Year Survival Guide. Printed by Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering.