David N. Fisher

University of Aberdeen — United Kingdom

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

23h-index3.5kcitations103works3.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(54), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(50), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(27), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(14), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(12)

Publications103 total

Pessimistic and optimistic cognitive biases in cockroaches
2025Open Access
Motivational trade-offs in a cockroach: impact of conditions, injury, and development
2025Open Access
Cockroach social network position does not influence exploration tendency
Journal of Ethology·2025Open Access
Multilevel-consistency of social behaviour in a cockroach
2025Open Access
Examining the fitness benefits of social plasticity to prey availability in bottlenose dolphins
2025Open Access
Correction to: ‘Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index’ (2023), by Fisher and Cheney
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology
BMC Biology·2025· 37 citedOpen Access
Measuring the effect of RFID and marker recognition tags on cockroach (Blattodea: Blaberidae) behavior using AI-aided tracking
Journal of Insect Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviors: a meta-analysis
Evolution Letters·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Exploring changes in social spider DNA methylation profiles in all cytosine contexts following infection
Heredity·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Measuring the effect of RFID and Marker Recognition tags on cockroach behaviour using AI aided tracking
2024Open Access
Exploring changes in social spider DNA methylation profiles when succumbing to infection in CpG, CHG, and CHH contexts
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours: a meta-analysis
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Cockroach social network position does not influence exploration tendency
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Indirect genetic effects should make group size more evolvable than expected
Journal of Evolutionary Biology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
A Simpler Way to Organize Society: Response to a Risky Stimulus is Related to the Spatial Distribution of the Individuals Within a Spider Colonial Web
Journal of Insect Behavior·2024
Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance
Journal of Experimental Biology·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Data and R code for "Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index" - post correction
Figshare·2024Open Access
Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Indirect genetic effects should make group size highly evolvable
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Tom Tregenza(12), Rolando Rodríguez‐Muñoz(10), Jonathan N. Pruitt(8), Andrew G. McAdam(7), Julian Evans(5), Matthew J. Silk(5), Stan Boutin(5), Ben Dantzer(5), Jeffrey E. Lane(5), Xavier A. Harrison(4), Lynda Donaldson(4), Maria Correa-Cano(4), Cecily Goodwin(4), Beth Robinson(4), David J. Hodgson(4), Richard Inger(4), Paul Hopwood(4), Brendan L. McEwen(4), Jelle J. Boonekamp(3), Ian Skicko(3)