Empro Howard Choat ~ Emeritus Professor

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (3103)
• Evolutionary biology (3104)
• Environmental management (4104)

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Journal Articles

• Clements K, German D, Piche J, Tribollet A and Choat J (in press) Integrating ecological roles and trophic diversification on coral reefs: multiple lines of evidence identify parrotfishes as microphages. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, , DOI:10.1111/bij.12914.
• Dibattista J, Saenz-agudelo P, Piatek M, Cagua E, Bowen B, Choat J, Rocha L, Gaither M, Hobbs J, Sinclair-taylor T, McIlwain J, Priest M, Braun C, Hussey N, Kessel S and Berumen M (2020) Population genomic response to geographic gradients by widespread and endemic fishes of the Arabian Peninsula. Ecology and Evolution, 10 (10), pp. 4314-4330, DOI:10.1002/ece3.6199.
• Hughes A, Hamilton R, Choat J and Rhodes K (2020) Declining grouper spawning aggregations in Western Province, Solomon Islands, signal the need for a modified management approach. PLoS ONE, 15 (3), Article: e0230485, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0230485.
• Taylor B, Benkwitt C, Choat H, Clements K, Graham N and Meekan M (2020) Synchronous biological feedbacks in parrotfishes associated with pantropical coral bleaching. Global Change Biology, 26 (3), pp. 1285-1294, DOI:10.1111/gcb.14909.
• Arroyo F, Pawlowska T, Choat J, Clements K and Angert E (2019) Recombination contributes to population diversification in the polyploid intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium sp. type B. ISME Journal, 13 (4), pp. 1084-1097, DOI:10.1038/s41396-018-0339-y.
• Feary D, Smith-Vaniz W, Russell B, Matsuura K, Motomura H, Carpenter K, Larson H, Kaymaram F, Iwatsuki Y, Hartmann S, Williams J, Ralph G, Collette B, Buchanan J, Krupp F, Harwell H, Abdallah M, Abdulqader E, Al-Husaini M, Bishop J, Burt J, Choat J and Munroe T (2019) Regional extinction risks for marine bony fishes occurring in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Biological Conservation, 230, pp. 10-19, DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2018.11.027.
• Johnson G, Taylor B, Robbins W, Franklin E, Toonen R, Bowen B and Choat J (2019) Diversity and structure of parrotfish assemblages across the northern Great Barrier Reef. Diversity, 11 (1), Article: 14, DOI:10.3390/d11010014.
• Knudsen S, Choat J and Clements K (2019) The herbivorous fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) represents a recent radiation from higher latitudes. Journal of Biogeography, 46 (9), pp. 2067-2080, DOI:10.1111/jbi.13634.
• Taylor B, Choat J, Demartini E, Hoey A, Marshell A, Priest M, Rhodes K and Meekan M (2019) Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88 (12), pp. 1888-1900, DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.13095.
• Bennett S, Halford A, Choat J, Hobbs J, Santana-Garcon J, Ayling A, Harvey E and Newman S (2018) Geography and island geomorphology shape fish assemblage structure on isolated coral reef systems. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (12), pp. 6242-6252, DOI:10.1002/ece3.4136.
• Dibattista J, Alfaro M, Sorenson L, Choat J, Hobbs J, Sinclair-Taylor T, Rocha L, Chang J, Luiz O, Cowman P, Friedman M and Berumen M (2018) Ice ages and butterflyfishes: phylogenomics elucidates the ecological and evolutionary history of reef fishes in an endemism hotspot. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (22), pp. 10989-11008, DOI:10.1002/ece3.4566.
• Fisher E, Choat J, McCormick M and Cappo M (2018) Relative influence of environmental factors on the timing and occurrence of multi-species coral reef fish aggregations. PLoS ONE, 13 (12), Article: e0209234, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0209234.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 88+ research outputs authored by Empro Howard Choat from 1989 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Effects of water quality on the ecology of herbivorous parrotfishes and surgeonfishes in American Samoa (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes at Aggregation Sites Within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Relative effects of environmental variation and fishing on the demography and ecology of tropical wrasses (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Demographic and reproductive characteristics of the squaretail coralgrouper (Plectropomus areolatus) in Solomon Islands (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Casey, J. (2017) Coral metagenome: uncultured bacterium random survey. James Cook University

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