Brendan Choat is a Professor at HIE. His research centres on the physiological ecology of plants with a primary focus on plant hydraulics, water relations and functional anatomy. He is an editor in chief for Prometheus Protocols and on the editorial board for Plant Biology.

email: b.choat@westernsydney.edu.au
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Ellie Nichols is a PhD student at HIE. Her research focuses on determining the physiological causes of eucalypt dieback, with an emphasis on hydraulic and thermal tolerance for drought and heat. This work is supported by the NSW Environmental Trust and will help to understand the causes of eucalypt dieback associated with increasing temperatures and drought risk.  

 

 

 

Amy Smart is a PhD student at HIE. She is researching the resilience of world heritage listed Gondwana rainforests of NSW to increasing drought stress and bushfire risk. This includes quantifying the vulnerability of rainforest tree species to drought stress and tracing the recovery of these forests from the Black Summer bushfires. 

 

Lab Alumni

Rosana Lopez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jen Peters (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Ximeng Li (Minzu University, China)
Alice Gauthey (EPFL ENAC IIE PERL, Switzerland)

Collaborators

I collaborate closely with a number of WSU staff including Matthias Boer, Belinda Medlyn, Mark Tjoelker, Sebastian Pfautsch, Paul Rymer, David Ellsworth and David Tissue.

External collaborators
Steven Jansen (Ulm University)
Tim Brodribb (University of Tasmania)
Sylvain Delzon (INRA)
Hervé Cochard (INRA)
Andrew McElrone (University of California, Davis)
Craig Brodersen (Yale University)
Lawren Sack (University of California, LA)
Maurizio Mencuccini (CREAF)
Lucas Cernusak (James Cook University)
Stefan Mayr (University Innsbruck)
Kathy Steppe (Ghent University)
Greg Gambetta (INRA)
Jordi Martinez-Vilalta (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Bernhard Schuldt (University of Goettingen)
Jarmila Pittermann (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Joe Holtum (James Cook University)
Sandra Bucci (National University of Patagonia, San Juan Bosco)
Fabian Scholz (National University of Patagonia, San Juan Bosco)
Frederic Lens (Leiden University)
Hafiz Maherali (University of Guelph)
Patrick Mitchell (CSIRO)
Andrea Nardini (University of Trieste)
John Sperry (University of Utah)
Mark Westoby (Macquarie University)
Ian Wright (Macquarie University)
Amy Zanne (George Washington University)
Marilyn Ball (Australian National University)
Owen Atkin (Australian National University)
Pieter Poot (University of Western Australia)
Kevin Simonin (San Francisco State University)
Dan Johnson (University of Idaho)