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Dr David Fisher

PhD, AHEA, MRes, BSc

Research Fellow

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Email: david.fisher@abdn.ac.uk
Address: The University of Aberdeen Room 1.12
Cruickshank Building

Biography

I study social interactions and the role they play in evolutionary and ecological processes. My works involves observations of wild animals and data analysis using 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.

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Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz080

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Indirect effects on fitness between individuals that have never met via an extended phenotype
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13230

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Indirect genetic effects clarify how traits can evolve even when fitness does not
2019
Fisher, D. N., McAdam, A.

Evolution Letters, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 4-14

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https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.98

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14596/1/Fisher_etal_evl_VOR.pdf
Older males attract more females but get fewer matings in a wild field cricket
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.011

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14182/1/RodriguezMunoz_etal_AB_Older_males_VOR.pdf

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Opposite responses to selection and where to find them
2019
Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 505-518

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13432
Population differences in aggression are shaped by tropical cyclone-induced selection
2019
Little, A. G., Fisher, D. N., Schoener, T. W., Pruitt, J. N.

Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 1294-1297

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0951-x
Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0286

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14181/1/Rodriguez_Munoz_etal_rspb_Slower_senescence_VOR.pdf
Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13437

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Testing the effect of early‐life reproductive effort on age‐related decline in a wild insect
2019
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

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https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13679

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14186/1/rodriguezmunoz_etal_Evo_Testing_VOR.pdf
A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology
2018
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, e4794

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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4794

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14017/1/Harrison_et_al_brief_introduction_peerj_vor.pdf

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

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

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

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

Opposite responses to selection and where to find them

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

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

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

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

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