Accepted Papers
2024
Huang R, Di N, Xi B, Yang J, Duan J, Li X, Feng J, Choat B, Tissue D. (2024) Herb hydraulics: Variation and correlation for traits governing drought tolerance and efficiency of water transport. Science of the Total Environment 907: 168095.
2023
Smith-Martin, C. M., Muscarella, R., Hammond, W. M., Jansen, S., Brodribb, T. J., Choat B., and Uriarte, M. (2023). Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability. Ecology Letters 26, 1829-1839
Losso, A., Gauthey, A., Choat B., and Mayr, S. (2023). Seasonal variation in the xylem sap composition of six Australian trees and shrubs. AoB PLANTS. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad064
Griebel, A., Boer, M. M., Blackman, C., Choat B., Ellsworth, D. S., Madden, P., and Nolan, R. H. (2023). Specific leaf area and vapour pressure deficit control live fuel moisture content. Functional Ecology 37: 719-731
Hislop, S., Stone, C., Gibson, R. K., Roff, A., Choat B., Nolan, R. H., and Carnegie, A. J. (2023). Using dense Sentinel-2 time series to explore combined fire and drought impacts in eucalypt forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1018936
Ruffault, J., Limousin, J. M., Pimont, F., Dupuy, J. L., De Càceres, M., Cochard, H., Choat B and Martin‐StPaul, N. (2023). Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought. New Phytologist, 237, 1256-1269. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18614
2022
Losso, A., Challis, A., Gauthey, A., Nolan, R. H., Hislop, S., Roff, A., … & Choat B. (2022). Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 21608. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24833-y
Jacob V, Choat B, Churchill AC, Zhang H, Barton CV, Krishnananthaselvan A, Post AK, Power SA, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT (2022) High safety margins to drought‐induced hydraulic failure found in five pasture grasses. Plant, Cell & Environ. 45: 1631– 1646. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14318
Gauthey A, Backes D, Balland J, Alam I, Maher DT, Cernusak LA, Duke NC, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, Choat B. (2022) The role of hydraulic failure in a massive mangrove die-off event. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 822136. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.822136
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Díaz S, Kattge J, Cornelissen JH, Wright IJ, Lavorel S, Dray S, et al. (2022) The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9
Rodriguez‐Dominguez CM, Forner A, Martorell S, Choat B, Lopez R, Peters JM, et al. (2022) Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy. Plant, Cell & Environ. 45: 2037– 2061. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14330
Pritzkow C, Brown MJ, Carins-Murphy MR, Bourbia I, Mitchell PJ, Brodersen C, Choat B, Brodribb TJ. (2022). Conduit position and connectivity affect the likelihood of xylem embolism during natural drought in evergreen woodland species. Annals of Botany 130: 431–444. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac053
McDowell NG, Sapes G, Pivovaroff A, Adams HD, Allen CD, Anderegg WR, Arend M, Breshears DD, Brodribb T, Choat B, Cochard H. et al. (2022) Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3: 294-308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00272-1
Li X, Xi B, Wu X, Choat B, Feng J, Jiang M, Tissue D. (2022) Unlocking drought-induced tree mortality: physiological mechanisms to modeling. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13: 835921. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.835921
Gauthey A, Peters JM, López R, Carins-Murphy MR, Rodriguez-Dominguez CM, Tissue DT, Medlyn BE, Brodribb TJ, Choat B (2022) Mechanisms of xylem hydraulic recovery after drought in Eucalyptus saligna. Plant, Cell & Environ. 45: 1216-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14265
Nolan RH, Foster B, Griebel A, Choat B, Medlyn BE, Yebra M, et al. (2022) Drought-related leaf functional traits control spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 319: 108941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108941
Sabot ME, De Kauwe MG, Pitman AJ, Medlyn BE, Ellsworth DS, Martin‐StPaul NK, Wu J, Choat B, Limousin JM, Mitchell PJ, Rogers A. One stomatal model to rule them all? Toward improved representation of carbon and water exchange in global models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.14:e2021MS002761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002761
Griebel A, Peters JM, Metzen D, Maier C, Barton CV, Speckman HN, Boer MM, Nolan RH, Choat B, Pendall E (2022). Tapping into the physiological responses to mistletoe infection during heat and drought stress. Tree Physiol. 42: 523-36. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab113
De Kauwe MG, Sabot ME, Medlyn BE, Pitman AJ, Meir P, Cernusak LA, … & Choat B (2022) Towards species‐level forecasts of drought‐induced tree mortality risk. New Phytol. 235: 94-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18129
Duan H, Resco de Dios V, Wang D, Zhao N, Huang G, Liu W, Wu J, Zhou S, Choat B, Tissue DT (2022). Testing the limits of plant drought stress and subsequent recovery in four provenances of a widely distributed subtropical tree species. Plant, Cell & Environ. 45: 1187-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14254
2021
Falster D, Gallagher R, Wenk EH, Wright IJ, Indiarto D, Andrew SC, et al. (2021) AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data 8: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6
Pivovaroff AL, McDowell NG, Rodrigues TB, Brodribb T, Cernusak LA, Choat B, et al. (2021) Stability of tropical forest tree carbon‐water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth. Global Change Biol. 27: 6454-6466. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15869
, , , , , , et al (2021) Hydraulic prediction of drought-induced plant dieback and top-kill depends on leaf habit and growth form. Ecology Letters, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13856
Peters JMR, López R, Nolf M, Hutley LB, Wardlaw T, Cernusak LA and Choat B. (2021) Living on the edge: A continental-scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought. Glob Change Biol. 27: 3620-3641. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15641
Nolan RH, Gauthey A, Losso A, Medlyn BE, Smith R, Chhajed, SS, Fuller K, Song M, Li X, Beaumont LJ, Boer MM, Wright IJ, Choat B (2021), Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought. New Phytologist 230: 1354-1365. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17298
Jiang X, Choat B, Zhang YJ, Guan XY, Shi W, Cao KF (2021). Variation in xylem hydraulic structure and function of two mangrove species across a latitudinal gradient in eastern Australia. Water 13: 850. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13060850
Oyanoghafo O, O’ Brien C, Choat B, Tissue DT, Rymer PD. (2021) Vulnerability to xylem cavitation of Hakea species (Proteaceae) from a range of biomes and life-histories predicted by climatic niche. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab020
López R, Cano FJ, Martin‐StPaul NK, Cochard H, Choat B. (2021) Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity. New Phytologist 230: 497-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17185
2020
Brodribb TJ, Powers J, Cochard H and Choat B. (2020) Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought. Science. 368:261-266. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7631
De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Ukkola AM, Mu M, Sabot ME, Pitman AJ, Meir P, Cernusak LA, Rifai SW, Choat B, Tissue DT, Blackman CJ, Li X, Roderick M and Briggs PR (2020). Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia. Global Change Biology. 26: 5716-5733. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15215
Gauthey A, Peters JMR, Carins‐Murphy MR, Rodriguez‐Dominguez CM, Li X, Delzon S, King A, López R, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, Choat B. (2020). Visual and hydraulic techniques produce similar estimates of cavitation resistance in woody species. New Phytologist 228: 884-897. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16746
Jacob V, Zhang H, Churchill AC, Yang J, Choat B, Medlyn BE, Power SA and Tissue DT. (2020) Warming reduces net carbon gain and productivity in Medicago sativa and Festuca arundinacea. Agronomy 10: 1601. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101601
Johnson KM, Brodersen C, Carins-Murphy MR, Choat B and Brodribb TJ. (2020) Xylem embolism spreads by single-conduit events in three dry forest angiosperm stems. Plant Physiology 184: 212-222. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.20.00464
Kattge J, Bönisch G, Díaz S, Lavorel S, Prentice IC, Leadley P, Tautenhahn S, Werner GD, Aakala T, Abedi M. et al. (2020). TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access. Global change biology 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
Li R, Lu Y, Peters JM, Choat B and Lee AJ. (2020) Non-invasive measurement of leaf water content and pressure–volume curves using terahertz radiation. Scientific Reports 10: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78154-z
Li X, Delzon S, Torres-Ruiz J, Badel E, Burlett R, Cochard H, Jansen S, King A, Lamarque LJ, Lenoir N, Martin StPaul N, Choat B (2020) Lack of vulnerability segmentation in four angiosperm tree species: evidence from direct X-ray microtomography observation. Annals of Forest Science. 77:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-020-00944-2
Li X, He X, Smith R, Choat B and Tissue D. (2020) Temperature alters the response of hydraulic architecture to CO2 in cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum). Environmental and Experimental Botany 172: 104004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104004
Li X, Smith R, Choat B and Tissue DT. (2020) Drought resistance of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is promoted by early stomatal closure and leaf shedding. Functional Plant Biology 47: 91-98. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP19093
Nolan RH, Blackman CJ, de Dios VR, Choat B, Medlyn BE, Li X, Bradstock RA and Boer MM. (2020) Linking forest flammability and plant vulnerability to drought. Forests 11: 779. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11070779
Peters JMR, Gauthey A, Lopez R, Carins-Murphy MR, Brodribb TJ and Choat B. (2020). Non-invasive imaging reveals convergence in root and stem vulnerability to cavitation across five tree species. Journal of Experimental Botany 71: 6623-6637. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa381
2019
Blackman CJ, Li X, Choat B, Rymer PD, De Kauwe MG, Duursma RA, Tissue DT, Medlyn BE. (2019) Desiccation time during drought is highly predictable across species of Eucalyptus from contrasting climates. New Phytologist 224: 632-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16042
Mencuccini M, Rosas T, Rowland L, Choat B, Cornelissen H, Jansen S, Kramer K, Lapenis A, Manzoni S, Niinemets Ü, Reich PB (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf: wood area ratios. New Phytologist 224: 1544-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15998
Choat B, Nolf M, Lopez R, Peters JM, Carins-Murphy MR, Creek D, Brodribb TJ. (2019) Non-invasive imaging shows no evidence of embolism repair after drought in tree species of two genera. Tree Physiology 39: 113-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy093
López R, Nolf M, Duursma RA, Badel E, Flavel RJ, Cochard H, Choat B. (2019) Mitigating the open vessel artefact in centrifuge-based measurement of embolism resistance. Tree Physiology 39: 143-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy083
Earles JM, Buckley TN, Brodersen CR, Busch FA, Cano FJ, Choat B, Evans JR, Farquhar GD, Harwood R, Huynh M, John GP, Miller ML, Rockwell FE, Sack L, Scoffoni C, Struik PC, Wu A, Yin X, Barbour MM (2019). Embracing 3D Complexity in Leaf Carbon–Water Exchange. Trends in Plant Science 24:15-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.09.005
Li, X, Blackman, CJ, Peters, JMR, Choat B, Rymer, PD, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT (2019). More than iso/anisohydry: Hydroscapes integrate plant water use and drought tolerance traits in 10 Eucalypt species from contrasting climates. Functional Ecology 33: 1035-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13320
Li X, Blackman CJ, Choat B, Rymer P, Medlyn B, Tissue D. (2019). Drought tolerance traits do not vary across sites differing in water availability in Banksia serrata (Proteaceae). Functional Plant Biology 46: 624-633. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP18238
Blackman CJ, Creek D, Maier C, Aspinwall MJ, Drake JE, Pfautsch S, O’Grady A, Delzon S, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT and Choat B (2019). Drought response strategies and hydraulic traits contribute to mechanistic understanding of plant dry-down to hydraulic failure. Tree physiology 39: 910-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz016
2018
Creek D, Blackman C, Brodribb TJ, Choat B, Tissue DT. (2018) Coordination between leaf, stem and root hydraulics and gas exchange in three arid‐zone angiosperms during severe drought and recovery. Plant, cell & environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13418
Lamarque LJ, Corso D, Torres-Ruiz JM, Badel E, Brodribb TJ, Burlett R, Charrier G, Choat B, Cochard H, Gambetta GA, Jansen S, King A, Lenoir N, Martin-StPaul N, Steppe K, Van den Bulcke J, Zhang Y, Delzon S. (2018) An inconvenient truth about xylem resistance to embolism in the model species for refilling Laurus nobilis L. Annals of Forest Science 75: 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-018-0768-9
Link RM, Schuldt B, Choat B, Jansen S, Cobb AR (2018) Maximum-likelihood estimation of xylem vessel length distributions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 455: 329–341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.07.036
Choat B, Brodribb TJ, Brodersen CR, Duursma RA, López R, Medlyn BE. (2018) Triggers of tree mortality under drought. Nature 558:531-539. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0240-x
Anderegg, WR, Wolf A, Arango‐Velez A, Choat B, Chmura DJ, Jansen S, Kolb T, Li, S, Meinzer FC, Pita P, Resco de Dios V, Sperry JS, Wolfe BT, Pacala S. (2018) Woody plants optimise stomatal behaviour relative to hydraulic risk. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12962
Li X, Blackman CJ, Rymer PD, Quintans D, Duursma RA, Choat B, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT. (2018). Xylem embolism measured retrospectively is linked to canopy dieback in natural populations of Eucalyptus piperita following drought. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy052
Taylor SH, Aspinwall MJ, Blackman CJ, Choat B, Tissue DT, Ghannoum O. (2018) CO2 availability influences hydraulic function of C3 and C4 grass leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 2731-41. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery095
Li X, Blackman CJ, Choat B, Duursma RA, Rymer PD, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT (2018) Tree hydraulic traits are co-ordinated and strongly linked to climate-of-origin across a rainfall gradient. Plant, Cell & Environment 41: 646–660. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13129
Drake JE, Tjoelker MG, Vårhammar A, Medlyn BE, Reich PB, Leigh A, Pfautsch S, Blackman CJ, López R Aspinwall MJ, Crous KY, Duursma RA, Kumarathunge D, De Kauwe MG, Jiang M, Nicotra AB, Tissue DT, Choat B, Atkin OK, BartonCVM. (2018). Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via increased transpirational cooling and thermal tolerance. Global Change Biology 24: 2390-2402. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14037
2017
Drake JE, Power SA, Duursma RA, Medlyn BE, Aspinwall MJ, Choat B, Creek D, Eamus D, Maier C, Pfautsch S, Smith RA, Tjoelker MG, Tissue DT (2017) Stomatal and non-stomatal limitations of photosynthesis for four tree species under drought: A comparison of model formulations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 247: 454-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.08.026
Anderegg WR, Wolf A, Arango-Velez A, Choat B, Chmura DJ, Jansen S, Kolb T, Li S, Meinzer F, Pita P, de Dios VR. (2017). Plant water potential improves prediction of empirical stomatal models. PloS one. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185481
Pereira L, Domingues-Junior AP, Jansen S, Choat B, & Mazzafera P. (2017) Is embolism resistance in plant xylem associated with quantity and characteristics of lignin?. Trees. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-017-1574-y
Torres-Ruiz JM, Cochard H, Choat B, Jansen S, López R, Tomášková I, Padilla-Díaz CM, Badel E, Burlett R, King A, Lenoir N, Martin-StPaul NK and Delzon S. (2017). Xylem resistance to embolism: presenting a simple diagnostic test for the open vessel artefact. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14589
Bourne AE, Creek D, Peters JMR, Ellsworth DS, Choat B. (2017) Species climate range influences hydraulic and stomatal traits in Eucalyptus species. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx020
Nolf M, Lopez R, Peters JMR, Flavel RJ, Koloadin L, Young IM, Choat B (2017). Visualisation of xylem embolism by X-ray microtomography: a direct test against hydraulic measurements. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14462
Skelton RP, Brodribb TJ, Choat B. (2017). Casting light on xylem vulnerability in an herbaceous species reveals a lack of segmentation. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14450
Duursma R & Choat B. (2017). fitplc-an R package to fit hydraulic vulnerability curves. Journal of Plant Hydraulics, 4, 002. https://doi.org/10.20870/jph.2017.e002
Mencuccini M, Salmon Y, Mitchell P, Hölttä T, Choat B, Meir P, O’Grady A, Tissue D, Zweifel R, Sevanto S, Pfautsch S. (2017). An empirical method that separates irreversible stem radial growth from bark water content changes in trees: theory and case studies. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12863
2016
Christoffersen BO, Gloor M, Fauset S, Fyllas NM, Galbraith DR, Baker TR, Rowland L, Fisher RA, Binks OJ, Sevanto SA, Xu C, Jansen S, Choat B, Mencuccini M, McDowell NG, Meir P. (2016) Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro), Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4227-2016
Bartlett MK, Klein T, Jansen S, Choat B, Sack L (2016) The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604088113
Charrier G, Torres-Ruiz JM, Badel E, Burlett R, Choat B, Cochard H, Delmas CE, Domec JC, Jansen S, King A, Lenoir N, Martin-StPaul N, Gambetta GA, Delzon S.(2016) Evidence for hydraulic vulnerability segmentation and lack of xylem refilling under tension. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.01079
López R, Francisco JC, Choat B, Cochard H, Gil L (2016). Plasticity in vulnerability to cavitation of Pinus canariensis occurs only at the driest end of an aridity gradient. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00769
Gleason SM, Westoby M, Jansen S, Choat B, Brodribb TJ, Cochard H, … & Zanne AE. (2016). On research priorities to advance understanding of the safety-efficiency tradeoff in xylem. A response to Bittencourt et al. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14043
Blackman CJ, Pfautsch S, Choat B, Delzon S, Gleason S, Duursma R. (2016). Toward an index of desiccation time to tree mortality under drought. Plant, Cell and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12758
Dijkstra FA, Carrillo Y, Maier C, Aspinwall MJ, Canarini A, Duursma, RA, Choat B, Tissue DT (2016) Water, nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiencies by four tree species in response to water and nutrient additions. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2873-6
Anderegg WR, Klein T, Bartlett M, Sack L, Pellegrini AF, Choat B, Jansen S. (2016) Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525678113
Bouche PS, Delzon S, Choat B, Badel E, Brodribb TJ, Burlett R, Cochard H, Charra‐Vaskou K, Lavigne B, Li S, Mayr S. (2016) Are needles of Pinus pinaster more vulnerable to xylem embolism than branches? New insights from X‐ray computed tomography. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12680
Choat B, Badel E, Burlett R, Delzon S, Cochard H, and Jansen S. (2016). Non-invasive measurement of vulnerability to drought induced embolism by X-ray microtomography. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00732
Li S, Feifel M, Karimi Z, Schuldt B, Choat B, Jansen S. (2016). Leaf gas exchange performance and the lethal water potential of five European species during drought. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv117
2015
Gleason SM, Westoby M, Jansen S, Choat B, Hacke UG, Pratt RB, … & Zanne AE. (2015). Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem‐specific hydraulic efficiency across the world’s woody plant species. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13646
Duan, H., O’Grady, A. P., Duursma, R. A., Choat B., Huang, G., Smith, R. A., … & Tissue, D. T. (2015). Drought responses of two gymnosperm species with contrasting stomatal regulation strategies under elevated [CO2] and temperature. Tree physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv047
Nolf M, Creek D, Duursma R, Holtum J, Mayr S, Choat B (2015). Stem and leaf hydraulic properties are finely coordinated in three tropical rainforest tree species. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12581
Simonin KA, Burns E, Choat B, Barbour MM, Dawson TE, & Franks PJ (2015). Increasing leaf hydraulic conductance with transpiration rate minimizes the water potential drawdown from stem to leaf. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru481
Jansen S, Schuldt B, Choat B. (2015). Current controversies and challenges in applying plant hydraulic techniques. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13229
Torres-Ruiz JM, Jansen S, Choat B, McElrone A, Cochard H, Brodribb TJ, … Delzon S. (2015). Direct micro-CT observation confirms the induction of embolism upon xylem cutting under tension. Plant physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.114.249706
Choat B, Brodersen CR, & McElrone, AJ (2015). Synchrotron X‐ray microtomography of xylem embolism in Sequoia sempervirens saplings during cycles of drought and recovery. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13110
2014
Scholz A, Stein A, Choat B, Jansen S (2014). How drought and deciduousness shape xylem plasticity in three Costa Rican woody plant species. IAWA Journal 35: 337–355. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-00000070
Brodersen CR, Jansen S, Choat B, Rico, C, Pittermann J. (2014). Cavitation resistance in seedless vascular plants: the structure and function of interconduit pit membranes. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.113.226522
Duan H, Duursma RA, Huang G, Smith RA, Choat B, O’Grady AP, & Tissue, DT (2014). Elevated [CO2] does not ameliorate the negative effects of elevated temperature on drought induced mortality in Eucalyptus radiata seedlings. Plant, cell & environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12260
Martorell S, Diaz-Espejo A, Medrano H, Ball MC, Choat B (2014) Rapid hydraulic recovery in Eucalyptus pauciflora after drought: linkages between stem hydraulics and leaf gas exchange. Plant, Cell and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12182
2013
Duan H, Amthor JS, Duursma RA, O’Grady AP, Choat B, Tissue DT (2013) Carbon dynamics of eucalypt seedlings exposed to prolonged drought in elevated [CO2] and elevated temperature. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpt061
Cochard H, Badel E, Herbette S, Delzon S, Choat B, Jansen S. (2013). Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ert193
Choat B (2013) Predicting thresholds of drought-induced mortality in woody plant species. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpt046
Pfautsch S, Aspinwall M, Drake J, Choat B, Tissue D, Burykin T, Tjoelker M. (2013) Putting the puzzle together: Investigating hydraulic functioning and water transport at high spatial resolution in tall trees. Acta Horticulturae. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.991.30
Brodersen CR, McElrone AJ, Choat B, Lee EF, Shackel KA, Matthews MA (2013). In vivo visualizations of drought-induced embolism spread in Vitis vinifera. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.112.212712
McElrone AJ, Choat B, Parkinson D, MacDowell A, Brodersen CR. (2013) Utilization of high resolution computed tomography to visualize the three dimensional structure and function of plant vasculature. Journal of Visualized Experiments. https://doi.org/10.3791/50162
Brodersen C, Choat B, Chatelet D, Shackel KA, Matthews MA, McElrone AJ (2013). Conductive xylem bridges contribute differentially to radial connectivity in grapevine stems (Vitis vinifera and V. arizonica). American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100606
2012
Choat B, Jansen S, Brodribb TJ, Cochard H, Delzon S, Bhaskar R, Bucci S, Feild TS, Gleason SM, Hacke UG, Jacobsen AL, Lens F, Maherali H, Martínez-Vilalta J, Mayr S, Mencuccini M, Mitchell PJ, Nardini A, Pittermann J, Pratt RB, Sperry JS, Westoby M, Wright IJ, Zanne AE. (2012). Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11688
McElrone AJ, Brodersen CR, Alsina MM, Drayton WM, Matthews MA, Shackel KA, Wada H, Zufferey V, Choat B. (2012). Centrifuge technique consistently overestimates vulnerability to water stress-induced cavitation in grapevines as confirmed with high-resolution computed tomography. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04244.x
Melcher PJ, Holbrook NM, Burns MJ, Zwieniecki MA, Cobb AR, Brodribb TJ, Choat B and Sack L. (2012) Field measurements of stem xylem hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory and field. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00204.x
2011
Wada H, Matthews MA, Choat B, Shackel KA. (2011). In situ turgor stability in grape mesocarp cells and its relation to cell dimensions and microcapillary tip size and geometry. Environmental Control in Biology. https://doi.org/10.2525/ecb.49.61
Choat B, Medek DE, Stuart SA, Pasquet-Kok J, Egerton JJG, Salari H, Sack L, Ball MC. (2011). Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze/thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03772.x
Brodersen C, Lee EF, Choat B, Jansen S, Phillips, RJ, Shackel KA, McElrone AJ, Matthews MA. (2011) Automated analysis of 3D xylem networks using high resolution computed tomography. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03754.x
Lens F, Sperry JS, Christman MA, Choat B, Rabaey D, Jansen S. (2011). Testing hypotheses that link wood anatomy to cavitation resistance and hydraulic conductivity in the genus Acer. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03518.x
2010
Brodersen C, McElrone AJ, Choat B, Matthews MA, Shackel KA. (2010). The dynamics of embolism repair in xylem: in vivo visualizations using High Resolution Computed Tomography. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.162396
Sack L, Cornwell WK, Santiago LS, Barbour MM, Choat B, Evans JR, Munns R, Nicotra, A. (2010). A unique web resource for physiology, ecology and the environmental sciences: PrometheusWiki. Functional Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP10097
Pittermann J, Choat B, Jansen S, Stuart SA, Lynn L and Dawson T. (2010) The relationships between xylem safety and hydraulic efficiency in the Cupressaceae: the evolution of pit membrane form and function. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.158824
Choat B, Drayton WM, Brodersen C, Matthews MA, Shackel KA, Wada H, McElrone AJ. (2010) Measurement of vulnerability to water-stress induced cavitation in grapevine: a comparison of four techniques applied to a long-vesseled species. Plant Cell and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02160.x
2009
Choat B, Gambetta GA, Shackel KA, Matthews MA (2009). Vascular function in grape berries across development and its relevance to apparent hydraulic isolation. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.109.143172
Choat B, Gambetta GA, Wada H, Shackel KA, Matthews MA (2009). The effects of Pierce’s disease on leaf and petiole hydraulic conductance in Vitis vinifera cv. Chardonnay. Physiologia Plantarum. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3054.2009.01231.x
Choat B, Pittermann, J. (2009). New insights into bordered pit structure and cavitation resistance in angiosperms and conifers. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02847.x
Jansen S, Choat B, Pletsers A. (2009). Morphological variation of intervessel pit membranes and implications to xylem function in angiosperms. American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800248
2008
Choat B, Cobb AR, Jansen S (2008). Structure and function of bordered pits: new discoveries and impacts on whole plant hydraulic function. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02317.x
2007
Choat B, Sack L, Holbrook NM. (2007). Diversity of hydraulic traits in nine Cordia species growing in tropical rainforests with contrasting precipitation. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02137.x
Cobb AR, Choat B, Holbrook NM. (2007). Dynamics of freeze-thaw embolism in Smilax rotundifolia (Smilacaceae). American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.94.4.640
Jansen S, Sano Y, Choat B, Rabaey D, Lens F, Dute RR. (2007). Pit membranes in tracheary elements of Rosaceae and related families: new records of tori and pseudo-tori. American Journal of Botany 94: 503–514. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.94.4.503
Stuart SA, Choat B, Martin K, Holbrook NM and Ball MC. (2007). The role of freezing in defining the latitudinal limits of mangrove forests. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01938.x
2006
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. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.93.7.993
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. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/26.5.657
Lovelock CE, Ball MC, Choat B, Holbrook NM, Feller IC. (2006). Linking 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01446.x
2005
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 and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01336.x
Choat B, Ball MC, Luly JG, Holtum JAM. (2005). Hydraulic architecture of deciduous and evergreen dry rainforest tree species from north-eastern Australia. Trees – Structure and Function. 10.1007/s00468-004-0392-1
2004
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. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erh173
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 Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01097.x
2003
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 Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.01410
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