Dr David Fisher

Dr David Fisher

PhD, AHEA, MRes, BSc

Research Fellow

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david.fisher@abdn.ac.uk

Room 1.12

Cruickshank Building

School of Biological Sciences

Biography

I study social interactions and the role they play in evolutionary and ecological processes. My works involves observations of wild animals and experiments in invertebrates in the laboratory, with analytial frameworks such as quantitative genetics and social network analysis. Please get in touch if you would like to know more

Previously I worked at McMaster University (Canada), looking at the heritability and evolution of group traits in social spiders, and at the University of Guelph (Canada), studying North American red squirrels in the Yukon. I completed my PhD at the University of Exeter (Cornwall campus), and my Masters at the University of Liverpool.

Publications

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Social associations in lactating dairy cows housed in a robotic milking system
2022 - Published
Marumo, J. L., Fisher, D. N., Lusseau, D., Mackie, M., Speakman, J. R., Hambly, C.
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 249, 105589
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105589
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Social Selection and the Evolution of Maladaptation
2022 - Published
McGlothlin, J. W., Fisher, D. N.
Journal of Heredity, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 61-68
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab061
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions
2021 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Kilgour, R. J., Siracusa, E. R., Foote, J. R., Hobson, E. A., Montiglio, P., Saltz, J. B., Wey, T. W., Wice, E. W.
Biological Reviews, vol. 96, no. 6, pp. 2661-2693
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12772
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/17456/1/Fisher_etal_BR_Anticipated_effects_of_VOR.pdf
Social selection is density dependent but makes little contribution to total selection in New Zealand giraffe weevils
2021 - Published
Fisher, D., LeGrice, R. J., Painting, C. J.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1952, 20210696
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0696
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16612/1/Fisher_etal_social_selection_is_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralization differ between a poison frog and its mimic
2021 - Published
Anderson, H. M., Fisher, D. N., McEwen, B. L., Yeager, J., Pruitt, J. N., Barnett, J. B.
Animal Behaviour, vol. 174, pp. 207-215
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.011
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Orb-weaving spiders show a correlated syndrome of morphology and web structure in the wild
2020 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N., Yeager, J.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 131, no. 2, pp. 449-463
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa104
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks
2020 - Published
Evans, J. C., Fisher, D. N., Silk, M. J.
Behavioral Ecology, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1266-1276
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa082
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival
2020 - Published
Hendrix, J. G., Fisher, D. N., Martinig, A. R., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J. E., McAdam, A. G.
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1408-1418
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13209
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior
2020 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L. L., Costa‐Pereira, R., Yeager, J., Pruitt, J. N.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 410-421
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13576
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations
2020 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N.
Current Zoology, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 1-14
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz016
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13880/1/Fisher_etal_CZ_Insights_VOR.pdf
Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance
2020 - Published
Anderson, H. M., Little, A. G., Fisher, D., McEwen, B. M., Culbert, B. M., Balshine, S., Pruitt, J. N.
Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 223, no. 14, jeb217075
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.217075
- [ONLINE] biorXiv
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high- but not low-elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders
2019 - Published
Lichtenstein, J., Fisher, D., McEwen, B., Nondorf, D., Calvache, E., Schmitz, C., Elässer, J., Pruitt, J.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1362-1367
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13532
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders
2019 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L., Costa-Pereira, R., Yeager, J., Pruitt, J. N.
. 31 pages.
Other Contributions: Other Contributions
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/761338
Dynamic networks of fighting and mating in a wild cricket population
2019 - Published
Fisher, D., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.
Animal Behaviour, vol. 155, pp. 179-188
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.026
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14585/1/Fisher_etal_AB_Dynamic_networks_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness
2019 - Published
Wright, C., McEwen, B., Fisher, D., Lichtenstein, J., Antoun, A., Tibbetts, E., Pruitt, J.
Behavioral Ecology, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1306-1313
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz078
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps
2019 - Published
Wright, C., Fisher, D., Nerone, W., Lichtenstein, J., Tibbetts, E., Pruitt, J.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 20-29
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz080
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology
2019 - Published
Pruitt, J., Little, A., Majumdar, S., Schoener, T., Fisher, D.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 588-590
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.009
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Older males attract more females but get fewer matings in a wild field cricket
2019 - Published
Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Hopwood, P., Fisher, D., Skicko, I., Tucker, R., Woodcock, K., Slate, J., Walling, C., Tregenza, T.
Animal Behaviour, vol. 153, pp. 1-14
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.011
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14182/1/RodriguezMunoz_etal_AB_Older_males_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels
2019 - Published
Fisher, D., Wilson, A., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J., Coltman, D., Gorrell, J., McAdam, A.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 559-571
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13437
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Opposite responses to selection and where to find them
2019 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 505-518
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13432
Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype
2019 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Haines, J. A., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Lane, J. E., Coltman, D. W., McAdam, A. G.
Ecology Letters, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 697-706
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13230
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio
2019 - Published
Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Fisher, D., Hopwood, P., Tregenza, T.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 286, no. 1900, 20190286
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4440224
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0286
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14181/1/Rodriguez_Munoz_etal_rspb_Slower_senescence_VOR.pdf
Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population
2019 - Published
Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Liu, X. P., Skicko, I., Pedersen, S. H., Fisher, D. N., Hopwood, P., Tregenza, T.
Evolution, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 293-302
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13674
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14594/1/Rodr_guez_Munoz_etal_evo_VOR.pdf
Indirect genetic effects clarify how traits can evolve even when fitness does not
2019 - Published
Fisher, D. N., McAdam, A.
Evolution Letters, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 4-14
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.98
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14596/1/Fisher_etal_evl_VOR.pdf
Testing the effect of early‐life reproductive effort on age‐related decline in a wild insect
2019 - Published
Rodríguez‐Muñoz, R., Boonekamp, J. J., Liu, X. P., Skicko, I., Fisher, D. N., Hopwood, P., Tregenza, T.
Evolution, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 317-328
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13679
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14186/1/rodriguezmunoz_etal_Evo_Testing_VOR.pdf
Population differences in aggression are shaped by tropical cyclone-induced selection
2019 - Published
Little, A. G., Fisher, D. N., Schoener, T. W., Pruitt, J. N.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 1294-1297
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0951-x
A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology
2018 - Published
Harrison, X. A., Donaldson, L., Correa-Cano, M. E., Evans, J., Fisher, D. N., Goodwin, C. E., Robinson, B. S., Hodgson, D. J., Inger, R.
PeerJ, vol. 6, pp. 1-32
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4794
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14017/1/Harrison_et_al_brief_introduction_peerj_vor.pdf
Lifespan and age, but not residual reproductive value or condition, are related to behaviour in wild field crickets
2018 - Published
Fisher, D. N., David, M., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.
Ethology, vol. 124, no. 5, pp. 338-346
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12735
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13829/1/Fisher_etal_eth_Lifespan_and_age_VOR.pdf
Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality
2018 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Brachmann, M., Burant, J. B.
Animal Behaviour, vol. 138, pp. e1-6
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.015
Social traits, social networks and evolutionary biology
2017 - Published
Fisher, D. N., McAdam, A. G.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2088-2103
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13195
A description of the gross pathology of drowning and other causes of mortality in seabirds
2017 - Published
Simpson, V. R., Fisher, D. N.
BMC Veterinary Research, vol. 13, 302
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1214-1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13827/1/Simpson_etal_BMCVR_Description_of_the_gross_pathology_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research
2017 - Published
Silk, M. J., Fisher, D.
Animal Behaviour, vol. 132, pp. 137-146
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.005
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13826/1/Silk_etal_AB_Understanding_animal_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Determinants of Contests in Ugandan Female Ground-Nesting Bees (Tetralonia sp. n.)
2017 - Published
Fisher, D., Melgar, J., Macleod, A., Nuttman, C.
African Entomology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 319-327
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4001/003.025.0319
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Multilevel and sex‐specific selection on competitive traits in North American red squirrels
2017 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Boutin, S., Dantzer, B., Humphries, M. M., Lane, J. E., McAdam, A. G.
Evolution, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 1841-1854
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13270
The Perceived Assortativity of Social Networks: Methodological Problems and Solutions
2017 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Silk, M. J., Franks, D. W.
Trends in Social Network Analysis. Missaoui, R., Abdessalem, T., Latapy, M. (eds.). Springer, pp. 1-19, 19 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53420-6_1
Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models
2017 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Ilany, A., Silk, M. J., Tregenza, T.
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 202-212
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12630
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14222/1/Fisher_et_al_JAE_analysing_animal_social_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] Deposit at University of Exeter
Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations
2016 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 151, 151
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0726-9
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13825/1/Fisher_etal_BMCEB_Wild_Cricket_VOR.pdf
Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect
2015 - Published
Fisher, D. N., David, M., Tregenza, T., Rodriguez-Munoz, R.
Behavioral Ecology, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 975-985
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv048
Behaviour in captivity predicts some aspects of natural behaviour, but not others, in a wild cricket population
2015 - Published
Fisher, D. N., James, A., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1809, 20150708
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] http://rspb20150708supp1.docx
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0708
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13953/1/Fisher_rspb_Behaviour_in_captivity_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: Why does a monandrous fly remate?
2013 - Published
Fisher, D. N., Doff, R. J., Price, T. A. R.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 157, 157
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-157
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13824/1/Fisher_BMCEB_True_Polyandry_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus

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Social associations in lactating dairy cows housed in a robotic milking system

Social Selection and the Evolution of Maladaptation

Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions

Social selection is density dependent but makes little contribution to total selection in New Zealand giraffe weevils

Episodic correlations in behavioural lateralization differ between a poison frog and its mimic

Orb-weaving spiders show a correlated syndrome of morphology and web structure in the wild

The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks

Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival

Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior

Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations

Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance

Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high- but not low-elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders

Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders

Dynamic networks of fighting and mating in a wild cricket population

Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness

Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps

Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology

Older males attract more females but get fewer matings in a wild field cricket

Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels

Opposite responses to selection and where to find them

Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype

Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio

Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population

Indirect genetic effects clarify how traits can evolve even when fitness does not

Testing the effect of early‐life reproductive effort on age‐related decline in a wild insect

Population differences in aggression are shaped by tropical cyclone-induced selection

A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology

Lifespan and age, but not residual reproductive value or condition, are related to behaviour in wild field crickets

Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality

Social traits, social networks and evolutionary biology

A description of the gross pathology of drowning and other causes of mortality in seabirds

Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research

Determinants of Contests in Ugandan Female Ground-Nesting Bees (Tetralonia sp. n.)

Multilevel and sex‐specific selection on competitive traits in North American red squirrels

The Perceived Assortativity of Social Networks: Methodological Problems and Solutions

Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models

Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations

Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect

Behaviour in captivity predicts some aspects of natural behaviour, but not others, in a wild cricket population

True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: Why does a monandrous fly remate?

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