Publications:
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• Leech, D. M., T.L. Clift, J.L. Littlefield, N.R. Ravagli, and J.E. Spain. 2021. Indirect versus direct effects of freshwater browning on larval fish foraging. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.  https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0379
• Leech, D.M., A.I. Pollard, S.G. Labou, and S.E. Hampton. 2018.  Fewer blue lakes and more murky lakes in the U.S.: Implications for planktonic food webs. Limnology and Oceanography . doi.org/10.1002/lno.10967
• Pollard, A.I., S.E. Hampton, D.M. Leech. 2018. The promise and potential of continental-scale limnology using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Lakes Assessment.  Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin. DOI 10.1002/lob.10238. 
• Leech, D.M., S.H. Ensign, and M.F. Piehler. 2016. Spatiotemporal patterns in the export of dissolved organic carbon and chromophoric dissolved organic matter from a coastal, blackwater river. Aquatic Sciences DOI 10.​1007/​s00027-016-0474-3
• Leech, D.M., M.T. Snyder, and R.G. Wetzel.  2014. Alterations in the photomineralization of allochthonous DOM related to elevated atmospheric CO2. Inland Waters 4: 147–156.
• Ensign, S.H., D.M. Leech, M.F. Piehler. 2014. Effects of nutrients and zooplankton on an estuary’s phytoplankton: Inferences from a synthesis of 30 years of data. Ecosphere 5:art89. DOI 10.1890/ES13-00405.1.
• Ziervogel, K., D.M. Leech, and C. Arnosti. 2013. Differences in the substrate spectrum of extracellular enzymes in shallow lakes of differing trophic status. Biogeochemistry DOI 10.1007/s10533-013-9874-9
• ​O’Connor, M.I., M. F. Piehler, D.M. Leech, A. Anton, and J.F. Bruno.  2009. Warming and resource availability shift food web structure and metabolism.  PLoS Biology 7: e1000178.
• Tranvik, L.J., Downing, J.A., and 25 others. 2009. Lakes and impoundments as regulators of carbon cycling and climate.  Limnology and Oceanography 54: 2298-2314.
• Leech, D.M., W.J. Boeing, C.E. Williamson, S.A. Cooke, and L. Torres. 2009. UV enhanced fish predation and the differential migration of zooplankton to UV radiation and fish.  Limnology and Oceanography 54: 1152-1161.
• Leech, D.M., M.T. Snyder, and R.G. Wetzel. 2009. Natural organic matter and sunlight accelerate the degradation of 17ß-estradiol. Science of the Total Environment 407: 2087-2092.
• Chow, A.T., D.M. Leech*, T. Boyer and P. Singer. 2008.  Impact of simulated solar irradiation on disinfection byproduct precursors. Environmental Science and Technology 42: 5586-5593. *Corresponding Author
• Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson, D. M. Leech, W. J. Boeing, and L. Torres. 2008. Effects of temperature and ultraviolet radiation on diel vertical migration of freshwater crustacean zooplankton. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology 65: 1144-1152.
• Riggsbee, J.A., C.H. Orr, D.M. Leech, M.W. Doyle, and R.G. Wetzel. 2008.  Suspended sediments in river ecosystems: photochemical sources of dissolved organic carbon and adsorptive removal of dissolved iron.  Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 113: G03019, doi:101029/2007JG000654.
• Williamson, C.E., DeLange H., and D.M. Leech. 2007. Do zooplankton contribute to an ultraviolet clear-water phase in lakes? Limnology and Oceanography 52: 662-667.
• Lango, A., D.M. Leech* and R.G. Wetzel. 2007. Indirect effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and UV radiation on culturable bacteria. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 168: 327-333. *Corresponding Author
• Leech, D.M. and S. Johnsen. 2006. UV vision and the feeding ecology of bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 2183-2190.
• Leech, D.M., A. Padeletti, and C.E. Williamson. 2005. Zooplankton behavioral responses to UV radiation vary within and among lakes. Journal of Plankton Research 27: 461-471.
• Leech, D.M., C.E. Williamson, R.E. Moeller, and B. Hargreaves. 2005. UV radiation and zooplankton vertical distribution and abundance: Testing for UV behavioral avoidance. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 162: 445-464.
• Boeing, W.J., D.M. Leech, C.E. Williamson, S.A. Cooke, and L.E. Torres. 2004. Damaging UV radiation and invertebrate predation: conflicting selective pressures for zooplankton vertical distribution in the water column of low DOC lakes. Oecologia 138 (4): 603-612.
• Leech, D.M. and C.E. Williamson. 2001. In situ exposure to UV radiation alters the depth distribution of Daphnia. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 416-420.
• Leech, D.M. and C.E. Williamson. 2000. Is tolerance to ultraviolet radiation in zooplankton related to body size, taxon, or lake transparency? Ecological Applications 10:1530-1540.
• Leech, D.M. and G.A. Wyngaard. 1996. Timing of chromatin diminution in free-living, freshwater Cyclopidae (Crustacea: Copepoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology 16: 496-500.​​

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS

• Leech, D.M. and S. Johnsen. 2022. Light as an ecological resource.  In Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition. Editors, Klement Tockner and Thomas Mehner. 
• Leech, D.M. and S. Johnsen.  2009. Light and biological receptors.  In Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Editor, G. Likens. Pp. 671-681.
• Leech, D.M. and S. Johnsen. 2003. Behavioral responses: UV avoidance and vision. In UV Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems. Editors, W. Helbling and H. Zagarese. Pp.455-481.

ENVIRONMENTAL DATASET

• Meyer, M.F., S.N. Topp, T.V. King, R. Ladwig, R.M. Pilla, H.A. Dugan, J.R. Eggleston, S.E. Hampton, D.M. Leech, I.A. Oleksy, J.C. Ross, M.R. Ross, R.I. Woolway, X. Yang, M.R. Brousil, K.C. Fickas, J.C. Padowski, A.I. Pollard, J. Ren, and J.A. Zwart. 2023. National-scale, remotely sensed lake trophic state (LTS-US) 1984-2020 ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative (EDI).
  

GENERAL AUDIENCE ARTICLES

• Leech, D.M. 2018. Sensors and satellites tell us more about the giant ice rings of Siberian Lakes.  L&O Bulletin doi.org/10.1002/lob.10278
• Labosier, C.F., K. Fortino, D.M. Leech. "Climate change is here." Farmville Herald [Farmville, VA] August 28, 2018. Print.
• ​Leech, D.M. "Fresh water: help restore this precious resource." Richmond-Times Dispatch [Richmond, VA] April 21, 2018. Print.​