Joe Holtum’s Site

At the Plant Ecophysiology Lab at the James Cook University campus in Townsville, Australia, Joe Holtum and his collaborators explore how plants function in the dry, semi-arid and wet tropics. Our speciality is the study of plants with a water-use efficient type of photosynthesis called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM. We do other stuff too.
CAM Cistanthe blooming in the Atacama Desert, Chile, in 2017

I explore how plants function in the dry and wet tropics, specializing on plants with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), a water-use efficient type of photosynthesis that involves the absorbtion of CO2 at night.

I do other stuff too.

This site is a partial record of my science, part blog and part diary. It documents some of my world.

By clicking on the buttons at the top right corner of the pages you can find:

This site is always “under construction“!!