| Manuel S Leal, Assistant Professor
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 211 Biological Sciences Building | Office Phone: | (919) 613-8220 | Email Address: | | - 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:
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Organismal Biology and Behavior
Ecology and Population Biology Evolution
- Research Interests: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards, Animal Communication
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Elizabeth Knowlton
- David Steinberg
- Alex Gunderson
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Leal, M. and A. R. Gunderson, Rapid change in thermal tolerance of a tropical lizard.,
American Naturalist, vol. 180
(2012),
pp. 815-822
- Leal M. and B. J. Powell, Behavioural flexibility and problem solving in a tropical lizard,
Biology Letters, vol. 8
(2012),
pp. 28-30, ISSN doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0480
- Kolbe, J. J., M. Leal, T. W. Schoener, D. A. Spiller, and J. B. Losos, Founder Effects Persist Despite Adaptive Differentiation: A Replicated Field Experiment in a Caribbean Lizard,
Science, vol. 335
(2012),
pp. 1086-1089 [doi]
- Gunderson, A. R., and M. Leal, Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard,
Functional Ecology, vol. 26
(2012),
pp. 786-793
- Fleishman, L.J., M. Leal, and M.H. Persons, Habitat light and dewlap color diversity in four species of Puerto Rican anoline lizards,
Journal of Coparative Physiology A, vol. 195
(2009),
pp. 1043-1069
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- M. Leal, Honest signalling during prey-predator interactions in the lizard Anolis cristatellus,
Animal Behaviour, vol. 58
(1999),
pp. 521-526
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