Dowe, John Leslie (2023) Ferdinand Mueller in Western Australia in 1877, with notes on his later contributions to the Western Australian flora. Nuytsia, 34. pp. 157-178.

Dowe, John, and Quirós, Luko Hilje (2023) Las exploraciones botánicas de Hermann Wendland en Centroamérica (1856-1857) II. En la región de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica / Hermann Wendland’s Botanical Explorations in Central America (1856-1857): II. In the Sarapiquí region, Costa Rica. Revista Comunicación, 32 (1). pp. 76-111.

Dowe, John, Venter, Fanie, UNSPECIFIED, and UNSPECIFIED (2023) Saribus pendulinus, a New Fan-Palm from New Guinea. Palms, 67 (1). pp. 13-25.

Dowe, John (2022) The Gullivers’ Acacia Vale Gardens and Nursery, Townsville: a successful experiment in tropical gardening. Australian Garden History, 34 (2). pp. 12-14.

Dowe, John, and Hilje Quirós, Luko (2022) Las exploraciones botánicas de Hermann Wendland en Centroamérica (1856-1857) I. De Guatemala al Valle Central de Costa Rica / Hermann Wendland’s Botanical Explorations in Central America (1856-1857) I. From Guatemala to the Central Valley in Costa Rica. Revista Comunicación, 31 (43). pp. 61-93.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Schweizer, Ernest (2022) Livistona victoriae and the North Australian Exploring Expedition 1855–1856. Palms, 66 (2). pp. 90-102.

Dowe, John Leslie (2022) Review: The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks. Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1). p. 74.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Yoxall, Helen (2022) William August Schipp (1891–1967): Commemorated in Schippia concolor and Chamaedorea schippii. Palms, 66 (3). pp. 109-125.

Dowe, John L., Appelhans, Marc S., Bräuchler, Christian, Hilje, Luko, and Schlumpberger, Boris O. (2022) The botanical expedition of Hermann Wendland in Central America: a nomenclatural study and travel report. Boissiera, 73. pp. 1-136.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Schlumpberger, Boris O. (2022) The uncertain history of an early illustration of Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti. Palms, 66 (1). pp. 33-40.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Hodel, Donald Robert (2021) Taxonomy and nomenclature of four unresolved names published by Udo Dammer in the genus Chamaedorea (Arecaceae). Candollea, 76 (1). pp. 93-98.

Dowe, John (2021) Udo Dammer (1860-1920): a palm specialist at Berlin Botanical Garden. Palms, 65 (2). pp. 67-79.

Dowe, John Leslie (2020) The Australian paintings of Marianne North, 1880–1881: landscapes ‘doomed shortly to disappear’. Cunninghamia, 20.

Dowe, John, Maroske, Sara, and May, Tom (2020) Flowers and fungi: illustrations by Ferdinand von Mueller’s nieces. Australian Garden History, 32. pp. 12-15.

Dowe, John, and Maroske, Sara (2020) John Dallachy (1804–71): collecting botanical specimens at Rockingham Bay. Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2). pp. 101-117.

Dowe, John, and Maroske, Sara (2020) John Dallachy (1804–71): from gardener to botanical collector. Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2). pp. 87-100.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Latifah, Dian (2020) Oranges or kings? The cryptic etymology of Zippelius’s Orania regalis. Palms, 64 (3). pp. 121-130.

Dowe, John, May, Tom W., Maroske, Sara, and Smith, Lucy T. (2020) The Wehl family of South Australia and their botanical connections with “Dear Uncle” Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Swainsona, 34. pp. 1-79.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Schlumpberger, Boris O. (2019) The Australian cabbage palm at Herrenhausen Gardens. Australian Garden History, 30. pp. 16-19.

Ehara, Hiroshi, Yamamoto, Toshiki, Tsuchiya, Tohru, Naito, Hitoshi, Dowe, John L., McClatchey, Will C., Mishima, Takashi, Itaya, Akemi, Mizota, Chitoshi, Pasolon, Yulius B., Ala, Philimon, Tuiwawa, Marika, Naikatini, Alivereti, Rounds, Issac A., Foliga, Talie, Lui, Siosinamele, and Kwan, Samantha (2019) Phylogenetic study of Metroxylon Palms in Southeast Asia and Oceania based on 5S nrDNA spacer sequence data. Sago Palm, 26 (2). pp. 37-43.

Dowe, J.L., Reiner-Drehwald, M.E., Appelhans, M.S., and Höerandl, E. (2019) The Wendlands of Herrenhausen Gardens (Hanover, Germany): a study of their Australian plant specimens in the herbarium of the University of Goettingen (GOET). Australian Systematic Botany, 32 (2-3). pp. 177-215.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Taylor, Peter Illingwaoth (2019) The botanical collections of William Hann's Northern Expedition of 1872 to Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Austrobaileya, 10 (3). pp. 506-538.

Dowe, John Leslie (2018) Livistona leichhardtii is the correct name for Livistona lorophylla (Arecaceae). Nuytsia, 29. pp. 245-250.

Dowe, John Leslie (2018) Marianne North’s paintings of Australian gardens, 1880-81. Australian Garden History, 30 (1). pp. 12-15.

Dowe, John Leslie (2018) Philip John MacMahon: Brisbane Botanic Gardens curator 1889 – 1905 and his vision of Brisbane as a ‘City of Palms’. Queensland History Journal, 23. pp. 507-521.

Dowe, John Leslie (2018) 'Such Superfluity of Genera': Ferdinand Mueller's criticism of generic limits in Wendland and Drude's 'Palmae Australasicae' of 1875. Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (2). pp. 82-90.

Dowe, John Leslie (2017) Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the “Princeps of Australian Botany,” and a historical account of his Australasian palms. Palms, 61 (1). pp. 21-40.

Dowe, John Leslie (2017) A family’s contribution to Queensland botany: John Howard Simmonds [Snr] (1862–1955), Rose Simmonds (née Culpin) (1877–1960) and John Howard Simmonds [Jnr] (1901–1992). Austrobaileya, 10 (1). pp. 168-183.

Dowe, John (2016) Ornamental palms in 19th century Australia. Australian Garden History, 28 (1). pp. 13-16.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Maroske, Sara (2016) 'These princely plants': Ferdinand Mueller and the naming of Australasian palms. Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1). pp. 13-27.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-eastern Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist, 46. pp. 16-46.

Dowe, John Leslie, Lovatt, Rosemary, and Snajder, Nadia (2016) Flowering of Carpoxylon macrospermum: a critically endangered palm, in the Townsville Palmetum, Australia. Palms, 60 (1). pp. 29-37.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Odoardo Beccari and Enrico D’Albertis in Australia and New Zealand, 1878: botanical and zoological collections. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 150 (2). pp. 27-41.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Walter Hill: his involvement with palms (Arecaceae), and notes on his herbarium and the expeditions of 1862 and 1873. Austrobaileya, 9 (4). pp. 489-507.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Warmington, David (2016) Watkins Munro Martin Conservatory, Cairns Botanic Gardens, Queensland, Australia. Palms, 60 (1). pp. 41-50.

Dowe, John Leslie (2015) I saw a good deal of the country much more than any other collector: an assessment of the botanical collections of Eugene Fitzalan (1830–1911). Cunninghamia, 15. pp. 87-133.

Dowe, John L., and Jones, David L. (2011) Arecaceae. In: Wilson, Annette, (ed.) Flora of Australia. Flora of Australia Series, 39 . Australian Biological Resources Study/CSIRO, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 145-210.

Baker, William J., Norup, Maria V., Clarkson, James J., Couvreur, Thomas L.P., Dowe, John L., Lewis, Carl E., Pintaud, Jean-Christophe, Savolainen, Vincent, Wilmot, Tomas, and Chase, Mark W. (2011) Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae). Annals of Botany, 108 (8). pp. 1417-1432.

Barfod, Anders S., Dowe, John Leslie, and Suksathan, Piyakaset (2010) Major Jenkins' fan palm in Thailand. Palms, 54 (3). pp. 109-118.

Davis, A.M., Pusey, B.J., Thorburn, D.C ., Dowe, J.L., Morgan, D.L., and Burrows, D. (2010) Riparian contributions to the diet of terapontid grunters (Pisces: Terapontidae) in wet–dry tropical rivers. Journal of Fish Biology, 76 (4). pp. 862-879.

Siebert, S.J., Zobolo, A.M., and Dowe, J.L. (2010) Arecaceae. Bothalia, 40 (1). pp. 55-57.

Dowe, John (2010) Australian Palms: Biogeography, Ecology and Systematics. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.

Shapcott, A., Dowe, J.L., and Ford, H. (2009) Low genetic diversity and recovery implications of the vulnerable Bankouale´ Palm Livistona carinensis (Arecaceae), from North-eastern Africa and the Southern Arabian Peninsula. Conservation Genetics, 10 (2). pp. 317-327.

Dowe, John Leslie (2009) A preliminary note on the impact of Cyclone Larry on populations of Archontophoenix alexandrae (Arecaceae), north Queensland, Australia. Palms & Cycads, 102. pp. 4-8.

Dowe, John Leslie (2009) Archontophoenix (Arecaceae) description of species and notes. The Palm Journal, 192. pp. 4-11.

Griffith, M. Patrick, Dowe, John L., Noblick, Larry R., and Danielson, I. Laurie (2009) Archontophoenix at Montgomery Botanical Center. The Palm Journal, 192. pp. 12-14.

Dowe, J.L. (2009) A taxonomic account of Livistona R.Br. (Arecaceae). Garden's Bulletin Singapore, 60 (2). pp. 185-344.

Prebble, M., and Dowe, J.L. (2008) The late Quaternary decline and extinction of palms on oceanic Pacific islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27 (27). pp. 2546-2567.

Dowe, John Leslie (2008) Botanical Inventory of the Mungalla Coastal Habitats. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Griffith, M. Patrick, Noblick, Larry R., Dowe, John L., Husby, Chad E., and Calonje, Michael A. (2008) Cyclone tolerance in New World Arecaceae: biogeographic variation and abiotic natural selection. Annals of Botany, 102 (4). pp. 591-598.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Broughton, Alan D. (2008) F.M. Bailey's taxonomy of A. Meston's collections from the Bellenden Ker Expedition of 1904. Austrobaileya, 7. pp. 675-677.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Broughton, Alan D. (2007) F.M. Bailey's ascent of Mt Bellenden-Ker in 1889, and notes on the publication priority of new vascular plant species from the expedition. Austrobaileya, 7 (3). pp. 555-566.

Dowe, John Leslie (2007) Ptychosperma macarthurii: discovery, horticulture and taxonomy. Palms, 51 (2). pp. 85-96.

Fensham, R.J., Bean, A.R., Dowe, J. L., and Dunlop, C.R. (2006) This disastrous event staggered me: reconstructing the botany of Ludwig Leichhardt on the expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, 1844-45. Cunninghamia, 9 (4). pp. 451-506.

Dixon, Ian, Douglas, Michael, Dowe, John, and Burrows, Damien (2006) Tropical rapid appraisal of riparian condition Version 1 (for use in tropical savannas). Report. Land and Water Australia, Canberra, Australia.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Chapin, Melany H. (2006) Beccari's "Grande Nouveauté": the discovery, taxonomic history and typification of Pelagodoxa henryana. Palms, 50 (4). pp. 185-192.

Dowe, John Leslie (2005) Observations of palms made by the botanist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, during the Australian Overland Expedition of 1844-1845. Palms, 49 (4). pp. 167-182.

Dixon, Ian, Douglas, Michael, Dowe, John, Burrows, Damien, and Townsend, Simon (2005) A rapid method for assessing the condition of riparian zones in the wet/dry tropics of northern Australia. In: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference. pp. 173-178. From: The 4th Australian Stream Management Conference, 19-22 October 2004, Launceston, TAS, Australia.

Dowe, John Leslie (2005) Ludwig Leichhardt's Australian plant collections, 1842-1847. Austrobaileya, 7 (1). pp. 151-163.

Barfod, Anders S., and Dowe, John Leslie (2005) The enigmatic Australian fan-palm Licuala ramsayi. Palms, 49 (1). pp. 15-23.

Dowe, John L., and Mogea, Johanis P. (2004) New species of Livistona (Arecaceae) from New Guinea. Palms, 48 (4). pp. 197-203.

Jones, David L., and Dowe, John L. (2004) Nomenclatural changes for two Australian species of Livistona R. Br. (Arecaceae). Austrobaileya, 6 (4). pp. 979-981.

Dowe, John Leslie (2004) Taxonomic notes on palms (Arecaceae) in catalogues of the Brisbane Botanic Garden, Australia, of 1875 and 1885. Austrobaileya, 6 (4). pp. 967-972.

Pettit, N.E., and Dowe, J.L. (2003) Distribution and population structure of the vulnerable riparian palm Livistona lanuginosa A.N.Rodd (Arecaceae) in the Burdekin River catchment, north Queensland. Pacific Conservation Biology, 9 (3). pp. 207-214.

Dowe, John Leslie (2002) Sago palms, Metroxylon (Arecaceae) in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands: traditional and current uses. In: New Frontiers of Sago Palm Studies: proceedings of the International Symposium on SAGO. pp. 227-236. From: International Symposium on SAGO 2001, October 15-17, 2001, Tsukuba, Japan.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Smith, Lucy T. (2002) A brief history of the coconut palm in Australia. Palms, 46 (3). pp. 134-138.

Dowe, John L., and Barfod, Anders S. (2001) New species of Livistona R. Br. (Arecaceae) from north Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Austrobaileya, 6 (1). pp. 165-174.

Jones, D.L., and Dowe, J.L. (2001) Proiphys infundibularis (Amaryllidaceae), a new species from the Townsville region of Queensland. Austrobaileya, 6 (1). pp. 121-126.

Dowe, John L., and Ferrero, Michael D. (2001) Revision of calyptrocalyx and the New Guinea species of linospadix (Linospadicinae: Arecoideae: Arecaceae). Blumea, 46. pp. 207-251.

Dowe, John Leslie (2001) Studies in the genus Livistona (Coryphoideae: Arecaceae). PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Dowe, John L., and Ferrero, Michael D. (2000) Gronophyllum cariosum, an ornamental new species from Papua New Guinea. Palms, 44 (4). pp. 161-165.

Dowe, John L., and Ferrero, Michael D. (2000) A new species of rheophytic palm from New Guinea. Palms, 44 (4). pp. 194-197.