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)

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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, .
• 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.
• Buchanan J, Ralph G, Krupp F, Harwell H, Abdallah M, Abdulqader E, Al-Husaini M, Bishop J, Burt J, Choat J, Collette B, Feary D, Hartmann S, Iwatsuki Y, Kaymaram F, Larson H, Matsuura K, Motomura H, Munroe T, Russell B, Smith-Vaniz W, Williams J and Carpenter K (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.
• 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, Article: 180, DOI:10.1186/s12862-018-1284-0.
• 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, DOI:10.1002/ece3.4501.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 86+ 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 no-take marine reserve protection on abundance and demography of tropical wrasses (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• 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

• Demographic and reproductive characteristics of the squaretail coralgrouper (Plectropomus areolatus) in Solomon Islands (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• The role of territorial grazers in coral reef trophic dynamics from microbes to apex predators (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Environmental and fishery-induced effects on life histories and assemblages of parrotfishes (2015, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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

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