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Publications of Manuel S Leal    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Papers Published

  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. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and M. Leal, ALSOPHIS PORTORICENSIS (Puerto Rican Racer). DIET, Herpetological Review, vol. 24 (1993), pp. 150-151
  3. Leal, M., J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, and J. B. Losos, An experimental study of interspecific interactions between two Puerto Rican Anolis lizards, Oecologia, vol. 117 (1998), pp. 273-278
  4. Torres, J., R. Thomas, M. Leal, and T. Gush, Ant and termite predation by the tropical blindsnake Typhlops platycephalus, Insectes Sociaux, vol. 47 (2000), pp. 1-6
  5. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, Antipredator responses of Anolis cristatellus (Sauria: Polychrotidae), Copeia, vol. 95 (1995), pp. 155-161
  6. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, Antipredator responses of the Puerto Rican giant anole, Anolis cuvieri (Sauria: Polychrotidae), Biotropica, vol. 29 (1997), pp. 372-375
  7. Leal, M., and J. B. Losos, Behavior and ecology of the Cuban “Chipojo Bobos” Chamaeleolis barbatus and C. porcus, Journal of Herpetology, vol. 32 (2000), pp. 318-322
  8. 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
  9. Powell, B. J. and M. Leal, Brain evolution across the Puerto Rican anole radiation, Brain Behavior and Evolution (2012), ISSN DOI:10.1159/000341161
  10. Rodríguez-Robles, J.A., T. Jezkova, and M. Leal, Climatic stability and genetic divergence in the tropical insular lizard Anolis krugi, the Puerto RIcan "Lagartijo Jardinaero de la Montaña", Molecular Ecology, vol. 19 no. 9 (2010), pp. 1860-1876
  11. 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
  12. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., and M. Leal, Effects of prey type on the feeding behavior of Alsophis portoricensis (Serpentes: Colubridae), Journal of Herpetology, vol. 27 (1993), pp. 163-168
  13. 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
  14. Thomas, R., and M. Leal, Feeding envenomation by Arrhyton exigumm (Serpentes: Colubridae), Journal of Herpetology, vol. 27 (1993), pp. 107-109
  15. 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]
  16. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., T, Jezkova and M. Leal, Genetic structuring in the threatened “Lagartijo del Bosque Seco” (Anolis cooki) from Puerto Rico, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 46 (2008), pp. 503-514
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Rodríguez-Robles, J. A., M. Leal and J. B. Losos, Habitat selection by the Puerto Rican Yellow-chinned anole, Anolis gundlachi, Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 83 (2005), pp. : 983-988
  20. M. Leal, Honest signalling during prey-predator interactions in the lizard Anolis cristatellus, Animal Behaviour, vol. 58 (1999), pp. 521-526
  21. 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
  22. Fuller, R. C., L. F. Fleishman, M. Leal, J. Travis, and E. R. Loew, Intraspecific variation in retinal cone distribution in bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, vol. 189 (2003), pp. 609-616
  23. Leal, M, A. K. Knox, and J. B. Losos, Lack of convergence in aquatic Anolis lizards, Evolution, vol. 56 (2002), pp. 785-791
  24. Jezkova, T., M. Leal, and J.A. Rodriguez-Robles, Living together but remaining apart: comparative phylogeography of Anolis poncensis and A. cooki, two lizards endemic to the arilands of Puerto Rico, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 96 (2009), pp. 617-634
  25. 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
  26. Leal, M., and R. Thomas, Notes on the feeding behavior and the exhibit of caudal luring by juvenile Alsophis portoricensis (Serpentes: Colubridae), Journal of Herpetology, vol. 28 (1994), pp. 126-128
  27. Leal M. and B. J. Powell, On the flexibility of lizard's cognition: a response to Vasconcelos et al., Biology Letters, vol. 8 (2012), pp. 44-45 [doi]
  28. Leal, M. and A. R. Gunderson, Rapid change in thermal tolerance of a tropical lizard., American Naturalist, vol. 180 (2012), pp. 815-822
  29. Leonhardt, S. D., J. Tung, J. B. Camden, M. Leal, and C. M. Drea, Seeing red: behavioral evidence of trichromatic color vision in strepsirrhine primate, Behavioral Ecology, vol. 20 (2009), pp. 1-12
  30. Steinberg, D. S. and M. Leal, Sensory system properties predict signal modulation in a tropical lizard, Aninal Behaviour, vol. 85 no. 3 , pp. 623–629 [025], [doi]
  31. Leal, M., and J. A. Rodríguez-Robles, Signalling displays during predator-prey interactions in a Puerto Rican anole, Anolis cristatellus, Animal Behaviour, vol. 54 (1997), pp. 1147-1154
  32. Gunderson, A. R., J. Siegel, and M. Leal, Test of the contribution of acclimation to geographic variation in water loss rates of the West Indian Anolis cristatellus, Journal of Comparative Physiology B, vol. 181 no. 7 (2011), pp. 965-972
  33. Rodríguez-Schettino, L, J.B. Losos, P.E. Hertz, K.deQueiroz, A.R. Chamizo, M. Leal, and V.R. González, The anoles of Soroa: aspects of their ecological relationships, Breviora no. 520 (2010), pp. 1-22
  34. Leal, M., and R. Thomas, ThomasELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI (Puerto Rican coquí). Prey, Herpetological Review, vol. 23 (1992), pp. 79-80
  35. Fleishman, L. J., E. R. Loew, and M. Leal, Ultraviolet vision in lizards, Nature, vol. 365 (1993), pp. 397

Book Reviews

  1. M. Leal, Anoles are smarter than humans, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 24 (1997), pp. 536-537

Other

  1. Anolis Newsletter V, edited by Losos, J.B., and M. Leal (1999), pp. 125 pp., Washington University: St. Louis, Mo.
  2. Leal, M. and J.B. Losos, Communication and speciation, Nature, vol. 467 (2010), pp. 159-160
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