Publications Archive Results
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2006 Leis J.M.. A species by any other name. Explore 29 2 10-11.
1997 Leis J.M.. Book Review: “The Early Stages of Fishes in the California Current Region, CalCOFI Atlas 33”, edited by H.G. Moser. 1505 pp. Bulletin of Marine Science 60 1 213-214.
1994 Leis J.M.. Coral Sea atoll lagoons - closed nurseries for the larvae of a few species of coral-reef fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science 54 1 206-227.
1987 Leis J.M.. Minimum requirements for published descriptions of larval fish development. Australian Ichthyoplankton Newsletter 2 4-5.
1986 Leis J.M.. Epibenthic schooling by the larvae of the spratellodine clupeid Spratelloides gracilis. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 33 1 60-62.
1985 Leis J.M.. Book Review: "The bibliography on the identification of the eggs, larvae and juveniles of the marine shorefishes of Japan". Newsletter of the Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society 6 3 11-13.
1982 Leis J.M.. Hawaiian creediid fishes ( Crystallodytes cookei and Limnichthys donaldsoni ): development of eggs and larvae and use of pelagic eggs to trace coastal water movement. Bulletin of Marine Science 32 1 166-180.
1982 Leis J.M.. Distribution of fish larvae around Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef: coral reef lagoon as refuge?. Proceedings of the 4th International Coral Reef Symposium (Manila) 2 471-477.
2004 Leis J.M.. Review of: Beneath Southern Seas: Sharks, rays, seahorses and other fishes of Australia’s unique coast. Nature Australia 27 12 78.
2004 Leis J.M.. Vertical distribution behaviour and its spatial variation in late-stage larvae of coral-reef fishes during the day.. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 37(2) 65-88.
2003 Leis J.M.. Family Diodontidae. The living marine resources of the western Central Atlantic vol 3 2007-2013.
2002 Leis J.M.. Pacific coral-reef fishes: the implications of behaviour and ecology of larvae for biodiversity and conservation, and a reassessment of the open population paradigm. Environmental Biology of Fishes 65 2 199-208.
2001 Leis J.M.. Family Diodontidae. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol 6 3958-3965.
2000 Leis J.M.. Family Lactariidae. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol 4 2649.
1998 Leis J.M.. Book Review: “Reef Fisheries” by NVC Polunin and CM Roberts. Ichthyological Research 44 4 429-430.
1993 Leis J.M.. Minimum requirements for published descriptions of larval fish development. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 40 3 393-395.
1993 Leis J.M.. Larval fish assemblages near Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science 53 2 362-392.
1991 Leis J.M.. Vertical distribution of fish larvae in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon, Australia. Marine Biology 109 157-166.
1989 Leis J.M.. Some little known Chinese ichthyoplankton publications. Australian Ichthyoplankton Newsletter 4 3-4.
1987 Leis J.M.. Larval fishes. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Reef Notes .
1987 Leis J.M.. Review of the early life history of tropical groupers (Serranidae) and snappers (Lutjanidae). Tropical Snappers and Groupers: Biology and Fisheries Management 189-237.
1986 Leis J.M.. Vertical and horizontal distribution of fish larvae near coral reefs at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology 90 505-516.
1984 Leis J.M.. Family Diodontidae. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes: the Western Indian Ocean .
1984 Leis J.M.. Tetraodontiformes: Relationships. Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes 459-464.
1981 Leis J.M.. Family Diodontidae. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes: the Eastern Atlantic Ocean .
1977 Leis J.M.. Development of the eggs and larvae of the slender mola, Ranzania laevis (Pisces, Molidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 27 3 448-466.
2010 Leis, J. M. Ontogeny of behaviour in larvae of marine demersal fishes. Ichthyological Research 57 325–342.
2015 Leis, J. M. Is dispersal of larval reef fishes passive?. Ecology of fishes on coral reefs. 223-226.
2006 Leis J.M.. A practical rule of thumb for spacing in MPA networks. MPA News 8 5 5.
2006 Leis J.M.. Nomenclature and distribution of the species of the porcupinefish family Diodontidae (Pisces, Teleostei).. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 1 77-90.
2006 Leis J.M.. Are larvae of demersal fishes plankton or nekton?. Advances in Marine Biology 51 59-141.
2005 Leis J.M.. A larva of the eteline lutjanid, Randallichthys filamentosus (Pisces: Perciformes), with comments on phylogenetic implications of larval morphology of basal lutjanids. Zootaxa 1008 57-64.
2003 Leis J.M.. What does larval fish biology tell us about the design and efficacy of marine protected areas?. Aquatic Protected Areas: What works best and how do we know? Proceedings of the World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas, Cairns, August 2002 170-180.
2002 Leis J.M.. Review of: The Australian Weather Book (2nd edition) by Keith Colls and Richard. Whitaker Nature Australia 27 4.
2000 Leis J.M.. Out of the blue. Nature Australia 26 10 52-59.
1994 Leis J.M.. Larvae, adults and relationships of the monotypic perciform fish family Lactariidae. Records of the Australian Museum 46 2 131-144.
1992 Leis J.M.. Summing Up. Larval Biology. Australian Society for Fish Biology Workshop, Hobart, 20 August 1991 158-165.
1992 Leis J.M.. The dilemma of power in environmental research. Australian Natural History 24 2 72.
1991 Leis J.M.. Distributional ecology of tuna larvae in near-reef waters in the Coral Sea. East Coast Tuna & Billfish Research and Monitoring Workshop Austrailan Government Publishing Service.
1991 Leis J.M.. The pelagic phase of coral reef fishes:larval biology of coral reef fishes. The ecology of fishes on coral reefs 183-230.
1990 Leis J.M.. Book Review: "An atlas of the early stage fishes in Japan", edited by Muneo Okiyama. Australian Ichthyoplankton Newsletter 6 2-4.
1989 Leis J.M.. Larval biology of butterflyfishes (Pisces, Chaetodontidae): what do we really know?. Environmental Biology of Fishes 25 87-100.
1988 Leis J.M.. The odd life of larval fishes. Australian Natural History 22 10 452-455.
1987 Leis J.M.. Book Review: "Studies on the oceanic ichthyoplankton in the Western North Pacific", T. Ozawa (ed). Copeia 1987 3 821-823.
1986 Leis J.M.. Family Diodontidae. Smith's Sea Fishes 903-907.
1986 Leis J.M.. Ecological requirements of Indo Pacific larval fishes: a neglected zoogeographic factor. Indo Pacific Fish Biology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Indo Pacific Fishes 759-767.
1986 Leis J.M.. Larval development of four species of the Indo-Pacific coral trout genus Plectropomus (Pisces: Serranidae: Epinephelinae) with an analysis of the relationships of the genus. Bulletin of Marine Science 38 3 525-552.
1985 Leis J.M.. Larval fish dispersal and the East Pacific Barrier. Océanographie Tropicale 19 2 181-192.
1984 Leis J.M.. Tetraodontoidei: Development. Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes 447-450.
1983 Leis J.M.. Coral reef fish larvae (Labridae) in the East Pacific Barrier. Copeia 1983 3 826-828.