Education

        

• Water economy of grape berries during ripening
  
• Structure and function of xylem pit membranes
  
• Links between hydraulic traits and phenology in tropical trees
• Platicity of hydraulic traits across environmental gradients
  

Publications

Choat B, Brodie TW, Cobb AR, Zwieniecki MA, Holbrook NM. (2006). Direct measurements of intervessel pit membrane hydraulic resistance in two angiosperm tree species. American Journal of Botany 93: 993-1000 (pdf)

Choat B, Ball MC, Luly JG, Donnelly C, Holtum JAM. (2006). Seasonal patterns of leaf gas exchange and water relations in dry rainforest trees of contrasting leaf phenology. Tree Physiology 26: 657-664 (pdf)

Lovelock CE, Ball MC, Choat B, Holbrook NM, Feller IC. (2006). Physiological processes with patterns in mangrove forest structure: Phosphorus deficiency limits canopy development, hydraulic conductivity and photosynthetic carbon gain in dwarf Rhizophora mangle. Plant, Cell and Environment 29: 793-802 (pdf)

Choat B, Lahr E, Melcher PJ, Zwieniecki MA, Holbrook NM (2005) The spatial pattern of air seeding thresholds in mature sugar maple trees. Plant, Cell Environ. 28: 1082–1089 (pdf)

Choat B, Ball MC, Luly JG, Holtum JAM (2005) Hydraulic architecture of deciduous and evergreen dry rainforest tree species from north-eastern Australia. Trees - Struc. Fun. 19: 305-311 (pdf)

Choat B, Jansen S, Zwieniecki MA, Smets E, Holbrook NM (2004) Changes in pit membrane porosity due to deflection and stretching: the role of vestured pits. J. Ex. Bot. 55: 1569 - 1575 (pdf)

Jansen S, Choat B, Vinckier S, Lens F, Schols P, Smets E (2004) Intervascular pit membranes with a torus in the wood of Ulmus (Ulmaceae) and related genera. New Phytol. 163: 51-59 (pdf)

Choat B, Ball M, Luly J, Holtum J (2003) Pit membrane porosity and water stress-induced cavitation in four co-existing dry rainforest tree species. Plant Physiol. 131: 41-48 (pdf)