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2023

The eyes have it: The response of herring gulls to human eye-gaze

Lewis M. Lamond and David N. Fisher

Bird Study | In press.


When do we start caring about insect welfare?

Tina Klobučar and David N. Fisher

Neotrop. Entomol. | doi: 10.1007/s13744-022-01023-z


2022

Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve

David N. Fisher

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.14110 (pre-print here)


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

Joyce L. Marumo, David N. Fisher, David Lusseau, Maitland Mackie, John R. Speakman and Catherine Hambly

Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. | doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105589


2021

Social selection and the evolution of maladaptation

Joel W. McGlothlin and David N. Fisher

J. Hered. | doi: 10.1093/jhered/esab061 (pre-print here)


Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions

David N. Fisher, R. Julia Kilgour, Erin R. Siracusa, Jennifer R. Foote, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Julia B. Saltz, Tina W. Wey, and Eric W. Wice

Biol. Revs. | doi: 10.1101/2021.03.12.435141


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

David N. Fisher, Rebecca J. Le Grice and Christina J. Painting

Proc. B. | doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0696 (pre-print here)


Multilayer network analysis: new opportunities and challenges for studying animal social systems

Matthew J Hasenjager, Matthew J Silk and David N. Fisher

Curr. Zoo. | doi: 10.1093/cz/zoab006


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

Hannah M. Anderson, David N. Fisher Brendan L. McEwen, Justin Yeager, Jonathan N. Pruitt and James B. Barnett

Anim. Behav. | doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.011


Using multilayer network analysis to explore the temporal dynamics of collective behaviour

David N. Fisher and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Curr. Zoo. | doi: 10.1093/cz/zoaa050


2020

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

Julian C. Evans, David N. Fisher and Matthew J. Silk

Behav. Ecol. | doi: 10.1093/beheco/araa082


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

David N. Fisher, Jonathan N. Pruitt and Justin Yeager

Biol. J. Linn. Soc. | doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa104 (pre-print here)


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

Hannah M. Anderson, Alexander G. Little, David N. Fisher, Brendan L. McEwen, Brett M. Culbert, Sigal Balshine and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Exp. Biol. | doi: 10.1242/jeb.217075 (pre-print here)


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

Jack G. Hendrix, David N. Fisher, April Robin Martinig, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Anim. Ecol. | doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13209 (pre-print here)


Assessing the repeatability, robustness to disturbance, and parent-offspring colony resemblance of collective behaviour

David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Raul Costa-Pereira, Justin Yeager and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13576 (pre-print here)


2019

Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders

Brendan L. McEwen, James L. L. Lichtenstein, David N. Fisher, Colin M. Wright, Greg T. Chism, Noa Pinter-Wollman and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. | doi: 10.1007/s00265-019-2781-x (pre-print here)


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

James L. L. Lichtenstein, David N. Fisher, Brendan L. McEwen, Daniel T. Nondorf, Esteban Calvache, Clara Schmitz, Jana Elässer and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13532 (pre-print here)


Population differences in aggression are shaped by cyclone-induced selection

Alexander G. Little, David N. Fisher, Thomas W. Schoener and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Nat. Ecol. Evol. | doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0951-x (pre-print here)


Dynamic networks of mating and fighting in a wild cricket population

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Anim. Behav. | doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.026 (pre-print here)


Call-to-action: A global consortium for tropical cyclone ecology

Jonathan N. Pruitt, Alexander G. Little, Sharanya J. Majumdar, Thomas W. Schoener and David N. Fisher.

TREE | doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.009


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

David N. Fisher and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Curr. Zoo. | doi: 10.1093/cz/zoz016


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

David N. Fisher, Jessica A. Haines, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane, David W. Coltman and Andrew G. McAdam

Ecol. Lett.| doi: 10.1111/ele.13230 (pre-print here)


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

David N. Fisher and Andrew G. McAdam

Evol. Lett. | doi: 10.1002/evl3.98 (pre-print here)


Opposite responses to selection and where to find them

David N. Fisher and Jonathan N. Pruitt

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13432


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

David N. Fisher, Alastair J. Wilson, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E. Lane, David W. Coltman, Jamie C. Gorrell and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13437 (pre-print here)


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

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Proc. B. | doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0286


Old males attract more females but get less matings in a wild field cricket

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Paul Hopwood, David N. Fisher, Ian Skicko, Rachel Tucker, Katherine Woodcock, Jon Slate, Craig Walling and Tom Tregenza

Anim. Behav. | doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.011


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

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Liu Xingping, Ian Skicko, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Evolution | doi: 10.1111/evo.13679


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

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Liu Xingping, Ian Skicko, Sophie Haugland Pedersen, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood and Tom Tregenza

Evolution | doi: 10.1111/evo.13674


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

Colin M. Wright, David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Jonathan N. Pruitt.

Biol. J. Linn. Soc. | doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz080


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

Colin M. Wright, Brendan L. McEwen, David N. Fisher, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Angelle Antoun, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Jonathan N. Pruitt.

Behav. Ecol. | doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz078


2018

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

Xavier A. Harrison, Lynda Donaldson, Maria Eugenia Correa-Cano, Julian Evans, David N. Fisher, Cecily E.D. Goodwin, Beth S. Robinson, David J. Hodgson, and Richard Inger

PeerJ | doi: 10.7717/peerj.4794


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

David N. Fisher, Morgan David, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Ethology | doi: 10.1111/eth.12735


Complex dynamics and the development of behavioural individuality

David N. Fisher, Joseph B. Burant and Matthew Brachmann

Anim. Behav. | doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.015 (pre-print available here)


2017

Social traits, social networks, and evolutionary biology

David N. Fisher and Andrew G. McAdam

J. Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1111/jeb.13195


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

Victor R. Simpson and David N. Fisher

BMC Vet. Res. | doi: 10.1186/s12917-017-1214-1


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

David N. Fisher, Julian Melgar, Amy MacLeod and Clive V. Nuttman

Afr. Entomol. | doi: 10.4001/003.025.0319


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

Matthew J. Silk and David N. Fisher

Anim. Behav. | doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.005


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

David N. Fisher, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Murray M. Humphries, Jeffrey E. Lane and Andrew G. McAdam

Evolution | doi: 10.1111/evo.13270 (pre-print available here)


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

David N. Fisher, Amiyaal Ilany, Matthew J. Silk and Tom Tregenza

J. Anim. Ecol. | doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12630


The perceived assortativity of social networks: Methodological problems and solutions

David N. Fisher, Matthew J. Silk and Daniel W. Franks

Lecture Notes in Social Networks 2017 | doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53420-6_1 (pre-print available here)


2016

Wild cricket social networks show stability across generations

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

BMC Evol. Biol. | doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0726-9


Comparing pre- and post-copulatory mate competition using social network analysis in wild crickets

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Behav. Ecol. | doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv236


2015

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

David N. Fisher, Adèle James, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Proc. B. | doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0708


Chemical cues mediate species recognition in field crickets

Frances Tyler, David N. Fisher, Patrizia d’Ettorre, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Front. Ecol. Evol. | doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00048


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

David N. Fisher, Morgan David, Tom Tregenza and Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz

Behav. Ecol. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv048


2013

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

David N. Fisher, Rowan J. Doff and Tom A. R. Price

BMC Evol. Biol. | doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-157

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