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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.

Publications

Publications

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Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent–offspring colony resemblance of collective behavior
2020
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

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13576

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Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance
2020
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

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.217075

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Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations
2020
Fisher, D. N., Pruitt, J. N.

Current Zoology, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 1-14

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz016

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13880/1/Fisher_etal_CZ_Insights_VOR.pdf
Territory acquisition mediates the influence of predators and climate on juvenile red squirrel survival
2020
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

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13209
Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology
2019
Pruitt, J., Little, A., Majumdar, S., Schoener, T., Fisher, D.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 588-590

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.009

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Collective aggressiveness limits colony persistence in high- but not low-elevation sites at Amazonian social spiders
2019
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

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13532

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Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders
2019
Fisher, D. N., Lichtenstein, J. L., Costa-Pereira, R., Yeager, J., Pruitt, J. N.

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https://doi.org/10.1101/761338
Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population
2019
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

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Digital Object Identifier

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
Dynamic networks of fighting and mating in a wild cricket population
2019
Fisher, D., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.

Animal Behaviour, vol. 155, pp. 179-188

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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

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Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness
2019
Wright, C., McEwen, B., Fisher, D., Lichtenstein, J., Antoun, A., Tibbetts, E., Pruitt, J.

Behavioral Ecology, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1306-1313

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz078

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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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Digital Object Identifier

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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Digital Object Identifier

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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Digital Object Identifier

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

Open Access

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

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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

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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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Digital Object Identifier

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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Digital Object Identifier

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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Digital Object Identifier

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
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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Digital Object Identifier

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

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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

Open Access

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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Digital Object Identifier

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
Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality
2018
Fisher, D. N., Brachmann, M., Burant, J. B.

Animal Behaviour, vol. 138, pp. e1-6

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.015
Lifespan and age, but not residual reproductive value or condition, are related to behaviour in wild field crickets
2018
Fisher, D. N., David, M., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.

Ethology, vol. 124, no. 5, pp. 338-346

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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
A description of the gross pathology of drowning and other causes of mortality in seabirds
2017
Simpson, V. R., Fisher, D. N.

BMC Veterinary Research, vol. 13, 302

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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

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Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models
2017
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

Digital Object Identifier

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

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Deposit at University of Exeter
Determinants of Contests in Ugandan Female Ground-Nesting Bees (Tetralonia sp. n.)
2017
Fisher, D., Melgar, J., Macleod, A., Nuttman, C.

African Entomology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 319-327

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4001/003.025.0319

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Multilevel and sex‐specific selection on competitive traits in North American red squirrels
2017
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

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13270
Social traits, social networks and evolutionary biology
2017
Fisher, D. N., McAdam, A. G.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2088-2103

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13195
The Perceived Assortativity of Social Networks: Methodological Problems and Solutions
2017
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

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53420-6_1
Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research
2017
Silk, M. J., Fisher, D.

Animal Behaviour, vol. 132, pp. 137-146

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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

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Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations
2016
Fisher, D. N., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Tregenza, T.

BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 151, 151

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

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
Behaviour in captivity predicts some aspects of natural behaviour, but not others, in a wild cricket population
2015
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

Digital Object Identifier

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

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Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect
2015
Fisher, D. N., David, M., Tregenza, T., Rodriguez-Munoz, R.

Behavioral Ecology, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 975-985

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv048
True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: Why does a monandrous fly remate?
2013
Fisher, D. N., Doff, R. J., Price, T. A. R.

BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 157, 157

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Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-157

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http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13824/1/Fisher_BMCEB_True_Polyandry_VOR.pdf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality

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

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

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

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

Social traits, social networks and evolutionary biology

The Perceived Assortativity of Social Networks: Methodological Problems and Solutions

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

Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations

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

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

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