Smith, Hillary A., Fulton, Stella E., McLeod, Ian M., Page, Cathie A., and Bourne, David G. (2023) Sea-weeding: Manual removal of macroalgae facilitates rapid coral recovery. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60 (11). pp. 2459-2471.

Martinez-Baena, Francisco, Raoult, Vincent, Taylor, Matthew D., Gaston, Troy F., McLeod, Ian, and Bishop, Melanie J. (2023) Trophic Structure of Temperate Australian Oyster Reefs Within the Estuarine Seascape: a Stable Isotope Analysis. Estuaries and Coasts, 46. pp. 844-859.

McLeod, Ian M., Hein, Margaux Y., Babcock, Russell, Bay, Line, Bourne, David G., Cook, Nathan, Doropoulos, Christopher, Gibbs, Mark, Harrison, Peter, Lockie, Stewart, van Oppen, Madeleine J.H., Mattocks, Neil, Page, Cathie A., Randall, Carly J., Smith, Adam, Smith, Hillary A., Suggett, David J., Taylor, Bruce, Vella, Karen J., Wachenfeld, David, and Boström-Einarsson, Lisa (2022) Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years. PLoS ONE, 17 (11). e0273325.

Martínez-Baena, Francisco, Lanham, Brendan S., McLeod, Ian, Taylor, Matthew D., McOrrie, Stephen, and Bishop, Melanie J. (2022) De novo reefs: Fish habitat provision by oyster aquaculture varies with farming method. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 14. pp. 71-84.

Cook, Nathan, Smith, Adam, Songcuan, Al, Cassidy, Daniel, Sartori, Greta, and McLeod, Ian (2022) Lessons learned from small-scale coral outplanting intervention at a restoration site on the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Management and Restoration, 23 (1). pp. 89-93.

Martínez-Baena, Francisco, Lanham, Brendan S., McLeod, Ian M., Taylor, Matthew D., McOrrie, Stephen, Luongo, Alyssa, and Bishop, Melanie J. (2022) Remnant oyster reefs as fish habitat within the estuarine seascape. Marine Environmental Research, 179. 105675.

Smith, Hillary A., Brown, Dylan A., Arjunwadkar, Chaitanya V., Fulton, Stella E., Whitman, Taylor, Hermanto, Bambang, Mastroianni, Elissa, Mattocks, Neil, Smith, Adam K., Harrison, Peter L., Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, McLeod, Ian M., and Bourne, David G. (2022) Removal of macroalgae from degraded reefs enhances coral recruitment. Restoration Ecology, 30 (7). e13624.

McAfee, Dominic, McLeod, Ian M., Alleway, Heidi K., Bishop, Melanie J., Branigan, Simon, Connell, Sean D., Copeland, Craig, Crawford, Christine M., Diggles, Ben K., Fitzsimons, James, Gilby, Ben L., Hamer, Paul, Hancock, Boze, Pearce, Robert, Russell, Kylie, and Gillies, Chris L. (2022) Turning a lost reef ecosystem into a national restoration program. Conservation Biology, 36 (6). e13958.

Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, Martínez-Baena, Francisco, Diggles, Ben, Firby, Lauren, and McLeod, Ian M. (2022) An ecological assessment of Australia's first community oyster gardens. Ecological Management and Restoration, 23 (3). pp. 244-251.

Shaver, Elizabeth C., McLeod, Elizabeth, Hein, Margaux Y., Palumbi, Stephen R., Quigley, Kate, Vardi, Tali, Mumby, Peter J., Smith, David, Montoya-Maya, Phanor, Muller, Erinn M., Banaszak, Anastazia T., McLeod, Ian M., and Wachenfeld, David (2022) A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration. Global Change Biology, 28 (16). pp. 4751-4764.

Vardi, Tali, Hoot, Whitney C, Levy, Jessica, Shaver, Elizabeth, Winters, Scott, Banaszak, Anastazia T, Baums, Iliana, Chamberland, Valerie F, Cook, Nathan, Gulko, David, Hein, Margaux Y, Kaufman, Les, Loewen, Michelle, Lundgren, Petra, Lustic, Caitlin, MacGowan, Petra, Matz, Mikhail, McGonigle, Miles, McLeod, Ian, Moore, Jennifer, Moore, Tom, Pivard, Sandrine, Pollack, Joseph, Rinkevich, Baruch, Suggett, David, Suleiman, Samuel, Viehman, T. Shay, Villalobos, Tatiana, Weis, Virginia, Wolke, Chelsea, and Montoya-Maya, Phanor H (2021) Six priorities to advance the science and practice of coral reef restoration worldwide. Restoration Ecology, 29 (8). e13498.

Sinclair, Elizabeth A., Sherman, Craig D.H., Statton, John, Copeland, Craig, Matthews, Andrew, Waycott, Michelle, Van Dijk, Kor-Jent, Vergés, Adriana, Kajlich, Lana, McLeod, Ian M., and Kendrick, Gary A. (2021) Advances in approaches to seagrass restoration in Australia. Ecological Management and Restoration, 22 (1). pp. 10-21.

Armitage, Chris, Auld, Tony, Bradbury, Keith, Campbell, Heather, Clarkson, Bruce, Cox, Andrew, Dixon, Peter, Fitzsimons, James, Foran, Brendan, Howling, Gary, McLeod, Ian, Norrish, Shane, O'Connor, Patrick, O'Gorman, Dermot, Slater, Helen, and Wrigley, Damian (2021) The Darwin Agreement: a collaboration between Australian restoration organisations in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Ecological Management and Restoration, 22 (3). pp. 220-222.

Hein, Margaux, Staub, francis, Banaszack, Anastazia, Dallison, Thomas, Deri, Wilfrid, Grimsditch, Gabriel, Jacob, Florina, Loder, Jennifer, McLeod, Ian, Mead, David, Moore, Tom, Newlands, Maxine, Shaver, Elizabeth, Thornton, Hazel, Vardi, Tali, Winters, R. Scott, and Zoccola, Didier (2021) Mapping the global funding landscape for coral reef restoration. External Commissioned Report. International Coral Reef Initiative.

Hein, Margaux Y., Vardi, Tali, Shaver, Elizabeth C., Pioch, Sylvain, Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, Ahmed, Mohamed, Grimsditch, Gabriel, and McLeod, Ian M. (2021) Perspectives on the Use of Coral Reef Restoration as a Strategy to Support and Improve Reef Ecosystem Services. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. 618303.

Zu Ermgassen, Philine S. E., Thurstan, Ruth H., Corrales, Jorge, Alleway, Heidi, Carranza, Alvar, Dankers, Norbert, DeAngelis, Bryan, Hancock, Boze, Kent, Flora, McLeod, Ian, Pogoda, Bernadette, Liu, Qing, and Sanderson, William G. (2020) The benefits of bivalve reef restoration: a global synthesis of underrepresented species. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30 (11). pp. 2050-2065.

McLeod, Ian M., Bourne, David, Ceccarelli, Daniela M., Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, Cook, Nathan, Fulton, Stella E., Hancock, Boze, Harrison, Peter, Hein, Margaux, Le Port, Agnès, Paewai-Higgins, Roma, Smith, Hillary A., and Smith, Adam (2020) Best practice coral restoration for the Great Barrier Reef. Report. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited (RRRC), Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Thurstan, Ruth B., Diggles, Ben K., Gillies, Chris L., Strong, Michael K., Kerkhove, Ray, Buckley, Sarah M., King, Robert A., Smythe, Vincent, Heller-Wagner, Gideon, Weeks, Rebecca, Palin, Fred, and McLeod, Ian (2020) Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system: a mixed methods approach. Global Environmental Change, 61. 102058.

Gillies, Chris L., Castine, Sarah A., Alleway, Heidi K., Crawford, Christine, Fitzsimons, James, Hancock, Boze, Koch, Paul, McAfee, Domonic, McLeod, Ian M., and zu Ermgassen, Philine S.E. (2020) Conservation status of the Oyster Reef Ecosystem of Southern and Eastern Australia. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22. e00988.

McLeod, Ian, and Newlands, Maxine (2020) Coral restoration in a warming world. The Marine Biologist, 14 (April). pp. 26-29.

Bostrom Einarsson, Lisa, Babcock, Russel C., Bayraktarov, Elisa, Ceccarelli, Daniella, Cook, Nathan, Ferse, Sebastian C.A., Hancock, Boze, Harrison, Peter, Hein, Margaux, Shaver, Elizabeth, Smith, Adam, Suggett, David, Stewart-sinclair, Phoebe J., Tardi, Tali, and McLeod, Ian M. (2020) Coral restoration – a systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions. PLoS ONE, 15 (1). e0226631.

McLeod, I.M., Bostrom Einarsson, L., Creighton, C., D'Anastasi, B., Diggles, B., Dwyer, P.G., Firby, L., Le Port, A., Luongo, A., Martinez-Baena, F., McOrrie, S., Heller-Wagner, G., and Gillies, C.L (2020) Habitat value of Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) reefs on soft sediments. Marine and Freshwater Research, 71 (7). pp. 771-781.

McLeod, Ian M., Heller-Wagner, Gideon, Gillies, Chris, Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, and Dwyer, Patrick G. (2020) Hitching a ride on Hercules: fatal epibiosis drives ecosystem change from mud banks to oyster reefs. Ecology, 101 (6). e03032.

Anthony, Kenneth R. N., Helmstedt, Kate J., Bay, Line K., Fidelman, Pedro, Hussey, Karen E., Lundgren, Petra, Mead, David, McLeod, Ian M., Mumby, Peter J., Newlands, Maxine, Schaffelke, Britta, Wilson, Kerrie A., and Hardisty, Paul E. (2020) Interventions to help coral reefs under global change – a complex decision challenge. PLoS ONE, 15 (8). e0236399.

Fitzsimons, James A., Branigan, Simon, Gillies, Chris L., Brumgaugh, Robert D., Cheng, Jun, DeAngelis, Bryan M., Geselbracht, Laura, Hancock, Boze, Jeffs, Andrew, McDonald, Tein, McLeod, Ian M., Pogoda, Bernadette, Theuerkauf, Seth J., Thomas, Marine, Westby, Stephanie, and zu Ermgassen, Philine S.E. (2020) Restoring shellfish reefs: global guidelines for practitioners and scientists. Conservation Science and Practice, 2 (6). e198.

Tan, Yi Mei, Dalby, Oliver, Kendrick, Gary A., Statton, John, Sinclair, Elizabeth A., Fraser, Matthew W., Macreadie, Peter I., Gillies, Chris L., Coleman, Rhys, Waycott, Michelle, van Dijk, Kor-Jent, Vergés, Adriana, Ross, Jeff D., Campbell, Marnie L., Matheson, Fleur E., Jackson, Emma L., Irving, Andrew D., Govers, Laura, Connolly, Rod M., McLeod, Ian M., Rasheed, Michael A., Kirkman, Hugh, Flindt, Morgens R., Lange, Troels, Miller, Adam D,, and Sherman, Craig D.H. (2020) Seagrass restoration is possible: insights and lessons from Australia and New Zealand. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. 617.

Ceccarelli, Daniela M., McLeod, Ian M., Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, Bryan, Scott E., Chartrand, Kathryn M., Emslie, Michael J., Gibbs, Mark T., Gonzalez Rivero, Manuel, Hein, Margaux Y., Heyward, Andrew, Kenyon, Tania M., Lewis, Brett M., Newlands, Maxine, Mattocks, Neil, Schläppy, Marie-Lise, Suggett, David J., and Bay, Line K. (2020) Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: state of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation. PLoS ONE, 15 (10). e0240846.

McAfee, Dominic, McLeod, Ian M., Bostrom-Einarsson, Lisa, and Gillies, Chris L. (2020) The value and opportunity of restoring Australia's lost rock oyster reefs. Restoration Ecology, 28. 2. pp. 304-314.

McLeod, Ian M., Williamson, David H., Taylor, Sascha, Srinivasan, Maya, Read, Mark, Boxer, Craig, Mattocks, Neil, and Ceccarelli, Daniela M. (2019) Bommies away! Logistics and early effects of repositioning 400 tonnes of displaced coral colonies following cyclone impacts on the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Management and Restoration, 20 (3). pp. 262-265.

McLeod, Ian Michael, zu Ermgassen, Philine S.E., Gillies, Chris L., Hancock, Boze, and Humphries, Austin (2019) Can bivalve babitat restoration improve degraded estuaries? In: Wolanski, Eric, Day, John W., Elliott, Michael, and Ramachandran, Ramesh, (eds.) Coasts and Estuaries: the future. Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 427-442.

McLeod, I. M., Newlands, M., Hein, M., Boström-Einarsson, L., Banaszak, A., Grimsditch, G., Mohammed, A., Mead, D., Pioch, S., Thornton, H., Shaver, E., Souter, D., and Staub, F. (2019) Mapping current and future priorities for coral restoration and adaptation programs. Report. International Coral Reef Initiative, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Creighton, Colin, Prahalad, Vishnu N., McLeod, Ian, Sheaves, Marcus, Taylor, Matthew D., and Walshe, Terry (2019) Prospects for seascape repair: three case studies from eastern Australia. Ecological Management and Restoration, 20 (3).

McLeod, Ian (2019) Successful communication for shellfish reef restoration projects. In: Fitzsimons, James, Branigan, Simon, Brumbaugh, Robert D., McDonald, Tein, and zu Ermgassen, Philine S.E., (eds.) Restoration Guidelines for Shellfish Reefs. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 69-72.

Burrows, Damien, Purandare, Jemma, Bay, Line, Cook, Nathan, Koopman, Danielle, Long, Suzanne, Lundgren, Petra, Mead, David, Morris, Sheriden, Newlands, Maxine, Roth, Christian, Wachenfeld, David, Smith, Adam K., and McLeod, Ian M. (2019) Symposium report: Great Barrier Reef restoration symposium, 2018. Ecological Management and Restoration, 20 (2). pp. 175-178.

Gillies, Chris, McLeod, Ian, Alleway, Heidi K., Cook, Peter, Crawford, Christine, Creighton, Colin, Diggles, Ben, Ford, John, Hamer, Paul, Heller-Wagner, Gideon, Lebrault, Emma, Le Port, Agnes, Russell, Kylie, Sheaves, Marcus, and Warnock, Bryn (2018) Australian shellfish ecosystems: past distribution, current status and future direction. PLoS ONE, 13 (2).

Boström‐Einarsson, Lisa, Ceccarelli, Daniela, Babcock, Russell C., Bayraktarov, Elisa, Cook, Nathan, Harrison, Peter, Hein, Margaux, Shaver, Elizabeth, Smith, Adam, Stewart-Sinclair, Phoebe J., Vardi, Tali, and McLeod, Ian M. (2018) Coral restoration in a changing world - a global synthesis of methods and techniques. Report. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Ltd, Cairns.

Ceccarelli, Daniela M., Loffler, Zoe, Bourne, David G., Al Moajil-Cole, Grace S., Boström Einarsson, Lisa, Evans-Illidge, Elizabeth, Fabricius, Katharina, Glasl, Bettina, Marshall, Paul, McLeod, Ian, Read, Mark, Schaffelke, Britta, Smith, Adam K., Jorda, Georgina T., Williamson, David H., and Bay, Line (2018) Rehabilitation of coral reefs through removal of macroalgae: state of knowledge and considerations for management and implementation. Restoration Ecology, 26 (5). pp. 827-838.

McLeod, Ian, Schmider, Joann, Creighton, Colin, and Gillies, Chris (2018) Seven pearls of wisdom: Advice from Traditional Owners to improve engagement of local Indigenous people in shellfish ecosystem restoration. Ecological Management and Restoration, 19 (2). pp. 98-101.

McLeod, Ian M., Purandare, Jemma, Gillies, Chris, Smith, Adam, and Burrows, Damien (2018) Symposium report: Inaugural Australian Coastal Restoration Symposium. Ecological Management and Restoration, 19 (1). E1-E5.

McLeod, Ian M., Boström-Einarsson, Lisa, Johnson, Craig R., Kendrick, Gary, Layton, Cayne, Rogers, Abbie A., and Statton, John (2018) The role of restoration in conserving matters of national environmental significance in marine and coastal environments. Report. NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

McLeod, Ian M., Jones, Rhondda E., Jones, Geoffrey P., Takahashi, Miwa, and McCormick, Mark I. (2017) Interannual variation in the larval development of a coral reef fish in response to temperature and associated environmental factors. Marine Biology, 162. pp. 2379-2389.

Wegscheidl, Carla J., Sheaves, Marcus, McLeod, Ian M., Hedge, Paul T., Gillies, Chris L., and Creighton, Colin (2017) Sustainable management of Australia's coastal seascapes: a case for collecting and communicating quantitative evidence to inform decision-making. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 25 (1). pp. 3-22.

Le Port, A., Montgomery, J.C., Smith, A.N.H., Croucher, A.E., McLeod, I.M., and Lavery, S.D. (2017) Temperate marine protected area provides recruitment subsidies to local fisheries. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 284 (1865). 20171300.

McLeod, Ian M., and Clark, Timothy D. (2016) Limited capacity for faster digestion in larval coral reef fish at an elevated temperature. PLoS ONE, 11 (5). e0155360. pp. 1-13.

Munday, Philip L., Watson, Sue-Ann, Parsons, Darren M., King, Alicia, Barr, Neill G., McLeod, Ian M., Allan, Bridie J.M., and Pether, Steve M.J. (2016) Effects of elevated CO2 on early life history development of the yellowtail kingfish, Seriola lalandi, a large pelagic fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73 (3). pp. 641-649.

Barnett, Adam, Abrantes, Kátya G., Baker, Ronald, Diedrich, Amy S., Farr, Marina, Kuilboer, Alf, Mahony, Tracey, McLeod, Ian, Moscardo, Gianna, Prideaux, Murray, Stoeckl, Natalie, van Luyn, Ariella, and Sheaves, Marcus (2016) Sportfisheries, conservation and sustainable livelihoods: a multidisciplinary guide to developing best practice. Fish and Fisheries, 17 (3). pp. 696-713.

Sheaves, M., Baker, R., McLeod, I., Abrantes, K., Wani, J., and Barnett, A. (2016) The conservation status of Niugini black bass: a world-renowned sport fish with an uncertain future. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 23 (3-4). pp. 243-252.

Gillies, Chris L., Fitzsimons, James A., Branigan, Simon, Hale, Lynne, Hancock, Boze, Creighton, Colin, Alleway, Heidi, Bishop, Melanie J., Brown, Simon, Chamberlain, Dean, Cleveland, Ben, Crawford, Christine, Crawford, Matthew, Diggles, Ben, Ford, John R., Hamer, Paul, Hart, Anthony, Johnston, Emma, McDonald, Tein, McLeod, Ian, Pinner, Breanna, Winstanley, Ross, and Russell, Kylie (2015) Scaling-up marine restoration efforts in Australia. Ecological Management and Restoration, 16 (2). pp. 84-85.

McLeod, I.M., McCormick, M.I., Munday, P.L., Clark, T.D., Wenger, A.S., Brooker, R.M., Takahashi, M., and Jones, G.P. (2015) Latitudinal variation in larval development of coral reef fishes: implications of a warming ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 521. pp. 129-141.

Wenger, Amelia S., McCormick, Mark I., Endo, Geoff G.K., McLeod, Ian M., Kroom, Frederieke J., and Jones, Geoffrey P. (2014) Suspended sediment prolongs larval development in a coral reef fish. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217. pp. 1122-1128.

McLeod, I.M., Parsons, D.M., Morrison, M.A., Van Dijken, S.G., and Taylor, R.B. (2014) Mussel reefs on soft sediments: a severely reduced but important habitat for macroinvertebrates and fishes in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 48 (1). pp. 48-59.

McLeod, Ian Michael (2014) Effects of ocean warming on the larval development of coral reef fishes. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Brooker, R.M., Munday, P.L., Mcleod, I.M., and Jones, G.P. (2013) Habitat preferences of a corallivorous reef fish: predation risk versus food quality. Coral Reefs, 32 (3). pp. 613-622.

Wenger, A.S., McCormick, M.I., McLeod, I.M., and Jones, G.P. (2013) Suspended sediment alters predator–prey interactions between two coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs, 32 (2). pp. 369-374.

McLeod, Ian M., Rummer, Jodie L., Clark, Timothy D., Jones, Geoffrey P., McCormick, Mark I., Wenger, Amelia S., and Munday, Philip L. (2013) Climate change and the performance of larval coral reef fishes: the interaction between temperature and food availability. Conservation Physiology, 1 (1). pp. 1-12.

McLeod, Ian M., Parsons, Darren M., Morrison, Mark A., Le Port, Agnès, and Taylor, Richard B. (2012) Factors affecting the recovery of soft-sediment mussel reefs in the Firth of Thames, New Zealand. Marine and Freshwater Research, 63 (1). pp. 78-83.