Harvey, Yvette B.
Job Title
Deputy leader, Wet Tropics Africa team
Department
Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives
Section
Regional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
1985Qualifications & Appointments
Dip. Environ. Develop., Open Univ., 1997
BSc (Hons), Open Univ., 1997
MA, Museum Studies, Univ. College London, 2002.
Role
Botanical inventories for conservation management in Cameroon; taxonomy of Sapotaceae.
Plant taxonomist with twenty year's experience with the flora of Africa, concentrating on conducting botanical inventories (including c. 1 month in the field each year) of protected areas for conservation management. Development and production of interactive vegetation survey reports. Responsible for the naming of herbarium collections, including Myrsinaceae, Sapotaceae, Campanulaceae, Menispermaceae.
Responsible for the Herbarium's Pest Management programme and giving advice internationally on herbarium management.
Currently re-writing the new edition of the internationally renowned Herbarium Handbook.
Projects
- African Lamiaceae
- The Plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist
- Congo (Brazzaville): Surveys and Capacity Building
- Dom, Bamenda Highlands Phase 2: reducing forest fragmentation and protecting what remains
- Ebo Forest Conservation Checklist
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora Zambesiaca
- Guinea (Conakry): Developing botanical capacity, a National Herbarium and Red Data book
- The Plants of Mefou Proposed National Park, Yaoundé, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist
- Monograph of Octoknema (Octoknemaceae-Olacaceae)
- Monograph of Omphalocarpum (Sapotaceae)
- Orientale DRC: surveys and capacity building
- Red Data Book & Teachers' Guide, Cameroon
- Sierra Leone: Surveys and Capacity Building
- The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist
- The Plants of Lebialem Highlands, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist.
Selected Recent Publications
Cheek, M., Pollard, B.J., Achoundong, G., Onana, J.-M., Gosline, G., Moat, J. & Harvey, Y. (2006). Conservation of the Plant Diversity of Western Cameroon: A Darwin Initiative Project. In Ghazanfar, S.A. & Beentje, H.J. (eds) Taxonomy and ecology of African plants, their conservation and sustainable use. Proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 779-791.
Harvey, Y. (2009). Leonotis and Stachys. In Beentje, H. & Ghazanfar, S (eds). Flora of Tropical East Africa Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek, M., Harvey, Y. and Onana, J.-M. (2010). The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist. Pp. 162. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Harvey, Y., Tchiengue, B. & Cheek, M. (2010). The Plants of Lebialem Highlands, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist. Pp. 170. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek, M., Harvey, Y. & Onana, J.-M. (2011). The Plants of Mefou proposed National Park, Yaounde, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist. Pp. 252. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Selected Earlier Publications
Harvey, Y. (2001). Grey biscuits, flying carpets and cigarettes: an integrated pest management programme in the herbarium at Kew. In Kingsley, H., Pinniger, D., Xavier-Rowe, A. & Winsor, P. (eds) Integrated Pest Management for Collections. Proceedings of 2001: A Pest Odyssey. London: James & James Ltd. 57-62.
Clennett, C., Harvey, Y.B. & Pearman, G. (2002). Plant Portraits: 433. Edgeworthia chrysantha. Thymelaeaceae. Botanical Magazine 19(1): 19-27
Iwarsson, M. & Harvey, Y.B. (2003). Monograph of the Genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. Kew Bulletin 58: 597-645
Harvey, Y.B. (2004). Family accounts for: Campanulaceae; Gentianaceae; Myrsinaceae & Sapotaceae. In Cheek, M., Pollard, B.J., Darbyshire, I., Onana, J-M. & Wild, C. (eds) The plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains: a conservation checklist. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Harvey, Y., Pollard, B.J., Darbyshire, I., Onana, J-M. & Cheek, M. (eds) (2004). The plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: a conservation checklist. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 154 pp.
- Harvey, Y.B. (1995). Family accounts for: Acanthaceae, Boraginaceae, Campanulaceae, Cecropiaceae, Gentianaceae, Moraceae, Myrsinaceae & Styracaceae. In Stannard, B.L. (ed.) Flora of the Pico das Almas. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Harvey, Y.B. (1996). The Stachys aculeolata/aethiopica complex in tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 51: 433–454.
- Harvey, Y.B. & Lovett, J.C. (1999). A New Species of Omphalocarpum (Sapotaceae) from Eastern Tanzania. Kew Bulletin 54: 197–202.
