Manuel S Leal, Assistant Professor of Biology

Office Location:	211 Biological Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 613-8220
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• BIOLOGY 277S.01, FNDNS OF BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Education:

PhD Biology	Washington University, St. Louis	2000
MS Biology	University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico	1994
BS Biology	University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico	1990

Specialties:

Organismal Biology and Behavior
Ecology and Population Biology
Evolution

Research Interests: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards, Animal Communication

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Alex Gunderson  
• Brian J. Powell  

Representative Publications

1. Johnson, M. A., M. Leal, L. Rodríguez-Schettino, A. Chamizo Lara, L. J. Revell, and J. B. Losos, A phylogenetic perspective on foraging mode evolution and habitat use in West Indian Anolis lizards., Animal Behaviour, vol. 75 (2008), pp. 555-563
2. Fleishman, L. J., M. Leal and J. Sheehan, Illumination geometry, detector position and objective determination of animal signal colours in natural light, Animal Behaviour, vol. 71 (2006), pp. 463-474
3. Leal, M. and L. J. Fleishman, Differences in visual signal design and detectability between allopatric populations of Anolis lizards, American Naturalist, vol. 163 (2004), pp. 26-39
4. Losos, J. B., M. Leal, R. E. Glor, K. deQueiroz, P. E. Hertz, L. Rodríguez-Schettino, A. Chamizo-Lara, T. R. Jackman, and A. Larson, Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community, Nature, vol. 423 (2003), pp. 542-545
5. Leal, M, and L. J. Fleishman, Evidence for habitat partitioning based on adapation to environmental light in a pair of sympatric lizard species, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, vol. 269 (2002), pp. 351-359
6. M. Leal, Honest signalling during prey-predator interactions in the lizard Anolis cristatellus, Animal Behaviour, vol. 58 (1999), pp. 521-526