Empro Howard Choat ~ Emeritus Professor

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (0602)
• Evolutionary Biology (0603)
• Environmental Science and Management (0502)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity (9608)
• Ecosystem Assessment and Management (9605)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Taylor B, Choat J, Demartini E, Hoey A, Marshell A, Priest M, Rhodes K and Meekan M (in press) Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish. Journal of Animal Ecology,
• 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
• 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
• 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).
• Ma K, van Herwerden L, Newman S, Berumen M, Choat J, Chu K and de Mitcheson Y (2018) Contrasting population genetic structure in three aggregating groupers (Percoidei: Epinephelidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: the importance of reproductive mode. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18.
• Pearse A, Hamilton R, Choat J, Pita J, Almany G, Peterson N, Hamilton G and Peterson E (2018) Giant coral reef fishes display markedly different susceptibility to night spearfishing. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (20). pp. 10247-10256
• Schiel D, Ayling T, Kingsford M, Battershill C, Choat J, Andrew N, Clements K, Ayling A, Leum L, Poynter M and Jones G (2018) Change in the rocky reef fish fauna of the iconic Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve in north-eastern New Zealand over 4 decades. Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (10). pp. 1496-1507
• Taylor B, Hamilton R, Almany G and Choat J (2018) The world's largest parrotfish has slow growth and a complex reproductive ecology. Coral Reefs, 37 (4). pp. 1197-1208
• Taylor B, Brandl S, Kapur M, Robbins W, Johnson G, Huveneers C, Renaud P and Choat J (2018) Bottom-up processes mediated by social systems drive demographic traits of coral-reef fishes. Ecology, 99 (3). pp. 642-651
• Hamilton R, Almany G, Brown C, Pita J, Peterson N and Choat J (2017) Logging degrades nursery habitat for an iconic coral reef fish. Biological Conservation, 210 (Part A). pp. 273-280
• Sinclair-Taylor T, Berumen M, Priest M, Choat J, McIlwain J, Rocha L, Bowen B, Piatek M, Saenz-Agudelo P, DiBattista J, Gaither M and Hobbs J (2017) Comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea reveals two cryptic lineages. Coral Reefs, 36 (2). pp. 625-638
• DiBattista J, Roberts M, Bouwmeester J, Bowen B, Coker D, Lozano-Cortés D, Choat J, Gaither M, Hobbs J, Khalil M, Kochzius M, Myers R, Paulay G, Robitzch V, Saenz-Agudelo P, Salas E, Sinclair-Taylor T, Toonen R, Westneat M, Williams S and Berumen M (2016) A review of contemporary patterns of endemism for shallow water reef fauna in the Red Sea. Journal of Biogeography, 43 (3). pp. 423-439

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 80+ 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)
• Effects of no-take marine reserve protection on abundance and demography of tropical wrasses (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes at Aggregation Sites Within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Environmental and fishery-induced effects on life histories and assemblages of parrotfishes (2015, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• The role of territorial grazers in coral reef trophic dynamics from microbes to apex predators (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Patterns and processes of diversification in groupers (family: Epinephelidae) (2014, 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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