Publications

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