Associate Professor Diana Fisher
Associate Professor and Interim Academic Director, Hidden Vale
School of the Environment
+61 7 334 69004
Researcher biography
My research interests include causes and detectability of extinction and decline, conservation ecology of threatened and declining marsupials (especially dasyurids and macropods), and tropical mammals, evolutionary ecology, mating systems and life history evolution, especially associations between life histories and seasonality, climate and sexual selection.
My long-term interest in conservation and evolutionary ecology of carnivorous marsupials started at The University of Sydney, where I was an Honours student of Chris Dickman. I did a PhD on ecology of bridled nailtail wallabies at The University of Queensland with Craig Moritz and Anne Goldizen. My research fellowships and programmes since then have investigated ecology and evolution of mammals: a Royal Society fellowship at the University of Aberdeen with Xavier Lambin, an ARC APD fellowship at ANU with Andrew Cockburn, and an ARF fellowship, and a Future Fellowship and UQ Fellowship at The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences.
I have worked in state environment agencies and the Australian Museum at times before joining UQ in 2007. I am co-chair of the IUCN Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group (with Professor John Woinarski), chair of the Australasian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium (affiliated with the Australian Mammal Society), and winner of the 2020 ESA Australian Ecology Research Award.
History:
Principal Research Fellow / Deputy Academic Director UQ Hidden Vale Research Station/ Associate Professor, School of the Environment / Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, UQ. Jan 2022-
UQ Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Conservation and life history evolution of mammals in Australia and Melanesia. January 2016 – December 2018.
ARC Future Fellow / Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Life history evolution, extinction and conservation ecology of carnivorous marsupials. January 2012 – December 2015.
ARC Australian Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Causes of animal extinction and rediscovery, detection of extinction and trajectories of decline in mammals with respect to the spread of invasive predators. January 2007 – December 2011.
Natural Heritage Trust, federal Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. Collating published data on threats to nationally endangered vertebrates under the EPBC Act, for the Species Profiles And Threats database. Part time, January- December 2006.
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra. Testing hypotheses to explain the evolution of polyandry, using antechinuses. April 2002 to February 2006 (maternity leave December 2004 – October 2005).
Royal Society Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen. Behavioural mechanisms of density-dependent immigration and implications for population dynamics in the water vole. Jan 2000 - April 2001 (maternity leave April 2001 – April 2002).
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland. Ecological correlates of marsupial life histories, behaviour and social organisation. 1999 - 2000.
PhD. The Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, supervised by Professor Craig Moritz and Dr Anne Goldizen: Behavioural ecology and demography of the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata 1994 - 1998.
Book
Lavery, Tyrone, Pikacha, Patrick and Fisher, Diana (2016). Solomon Islands forest life: information on biology and management of forest resources. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Book Chapters
Maitz, Natalya and Fisher, Diana O. (2024). South-east Queensland post-fire fauna recovery. Eyes on recovery: a large scale collaborative camera survey initiative tracking the recovery of Australian wildlife after the 2019-2020 bushfires. (pp. 3-6) edited by Tracy M. Rout and Emma M. Spencer. Sydney, NSW Australia: WWF Australia.
Augusteyn, J., Fisher, D. O., Lowry, J., Evans, M. and Melzer, R. (2023). Bridled nail-tailed wallaby: Onychogalea frenata. Strahan's Mammals of Australia. (pp. 373-375) Wahroonga, NSW Australia: New Holland Publishers.
Baker, Andrew M., Eldridge, Mark D. B., Fisher, Diana O., Frankham, Greta, Helgen, Kristofer, Jackson, Stephen M., Potter, Sally, Travouillon, Kenny J. and Umbrello, Linette S. (2023). Taxonomy and Diversity of Living Australasian Marsupials. American and Australasian Marsupials. (pp. 163-247) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08419-5_32
Woinarski, John C. Z. and Fisher, Diana O. (2023). Conservation Biogeography of Modern Species of Australasian Marsupials. American and Australasian Marsupials. (pp. 1319-1366) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08419-5_44
Augusteyn, John, Lowrey, Janelle and Fisher, Diana O. (2023). Bridled nailtail wallaby. Strahan's mammals of Australia. (pp. 355-356) edited by Andrew Baker and Ian Gynther. Sydney: New Holland Publishers.
Fisher, D. O. (2018). Reproductive strategies. The secret lives of carnivorous marsupials. (pp. 211-212) edited by C.R. Dickman and A. Baker. Clayton, VIC Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
Fisher, D. O. (2016). The bridled nailtail wallaby. A fragile balance: the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials. (pp. 21-22) edited by Dickman, C. R.. Sydney, NSW Australia: Australian Geographic.
Paplinska, J. Z., Bencini, R., Fisher, D. O., Newell, G., Goldizen, A. W., Hazlitt, S. L., Sigg, D. P., Finlayson, G., Munn, A., Chambers, B., Mayberry, C. and Taggart, D. A. (2010). Sperm competition in the Macropodoidea: a review of evidence. Macropods: The biology of kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos. (pp. 65-76) edited by Graeme Coulson and Mark Eldridge. Collingwood, Vic., Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
Fisher, D.O. (2004). Maternal behavior of marsupials. Encyclopedia of animal behaviour. (pp. 850-852) edited by Marc Bekoff. London, United Kingdom: Greenwood Press.
Journal Articles
Bruce, Tom, Amir, Zachary, Allen, Benjamin L, Alting, Brendan F., Amos, Matt, Augusteyn, John, Ballard, Guy‐Anthony, Behrendorff, Linda M., Bell, Kristian, Bengsen, Andrew J., Bennett, Ami, Benshemesh, Joe S., Bentley, Joss, Blackmore, Caroline J., Boscarino‐Gaetano, Remo, Bourke, Lachlan A., Brewster, Rob, Brook, Barry W., Broughton, Colin, Buettel, Jessie C., Carter, Andrew, Chiu‐Werner, Antje, Claridge, Andrew W., Comer, Sarah, Comte, Sebastien, Connolly, Rod M., Cowan, Mitchell A., Cross, Sophie L., Cunningham, Calum X. ... Luskin, Matthew S. (2025). Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews, 100 (2), 530-555. doi: 10.1111/brv.13152
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation, 298 110772, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
von Takach, Brenton, Cameron, Skye F., Cremona, Teigan, Eldridge, Mark D.B., Fisher, Diana O., Hohnen, Rosemary, Jolly, Chris J., Kelly, Ella, Phillips, Ben L., Radford, Ian J., Rick, Kate, Spencer, Peter B.S., Trewella, Gavin J., Umbrello, Linette S. and Banks, Sam C. (2024). Conservation prioritisation of genomic diversity to inform management of a declining mammal species. Biological Conservation, 291 110467, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110467
Ferreira, Mariana Silva, Dickman, Christopher R., Fisher, Diana O., Figueiredo, Marcos de Souza Lima and Vieira, Marcus Vinícius (2023). Marsupial position on life-history continua and the potential contribution of life-history traits to population growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290 (2005) 20231316, 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1316
Pocknee, Christopher A., Legge, Sarah M., McDonald, Jane and Fisher, Diana O. (2023). Modeling mammal response to fire based on species’ traits. Conservation Biology, 37 (4) e14062, e14062. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14062
Ensbey, Michelle, Legge, Sarah, Jolly, Chris J., Garnett, Stephen T., Gallagher, Rachael V., Lintermans, Mark, Nimmo, Dale G., Rumpff, Libby, Scheele, Ben C., Whiterod, Nick S., Woinarski, John C.Z., Ahyong, Shane T., Blackmore, Caroline J., Bower, Deborah S., Burbidge, Allan H., Burns, Phoebe A., Butler, Gavin, Catullo, Renee, Chapple, David G., Dickman, Christopher R., Doyle, Katie E., Ferris, Jason, Fisher, Diana O., Geyle, Hayley M., Gillespie, Graeme R., Greenlees, Matt J., Hohnen, Rosemary, Hoskin, Conrad J., Kennard, Mark ... Zukowski, Sylvia (2023). Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires. Biological Conservation, 283 110021, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110021
Fisher, D. O. (2023). Missing species listing reveals undiagnosed extinction among reptiles, tropical, and island vertebrates. Animal Conservation, 26 (1), 27-28. doi: 10.1111/acv.12861
Lavery, Tyrone H., Collett, Rachael, Fisher, Diana O., Hoskin, Conrad J. and Rowland, Jesse (2023). Corrigendum to: White-footed dunnarts (Sminthopsis leucopus) in Queensland's Wet Tropics, with the description of a new subspecies. Australian Mammalogy, 45 (1), 125-125. doi: 10.1071/am22002_co
Kearney, Stephen G., Watson, James E. M., Reside, April E., Fisher, Diana O., Maron, Martine, Doherty, Tim S., Legge, Sarah M., Woinarski, John C. Z., Garnett, Stephen T., Wintle, Brendan A., Ritchie, Euan G., Driscoll, Don A., Lindenmayer, David, Adams, Vanessa M., Ward, Michelle S. and Carwardine, Josie (2023). Threat-abatement framework confirms habitat retention and invasive species management are critical to conserve Australia's threatened species. Biological Conservation, 277 109833, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109833
Ratnayaka, Anya A. W., Serieys, Laurel E. K., Hangawatte, Therangika A., Leung, Luke K. P. and Fisher, Diana O. (2023). Plastic ingestion by fishing cats suggests trophic transfer in urban wetlands. Environmental Pollution, 316 (Pt 2) 120694, 120694. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120694
Cowan, M. A., Moore, H. A., Hradsky, B. A., Jolly, C. J., Dunlop, J. A., Wysong, M. L., Hernandez-Santin, L., Davis, R. A., Fisher, D. O., Michael, D. R., Turner, J. M., Gibson, L. A., Knuckey, C. G., Henderson, M. and Nimmo, D. G. (2022). Non-preferred habitat increases the activity area of the endangered northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) in a semi-arid landscape. Australian Mammalogy, 45 (2), 138-150. doi: 10.1071/am22006
von Takach, Brenton, Ranjard, Louis, Burridge, Christopher P., Cameron, Skye F., Cremona, Teigan, Eldridge, Mark D. B., Fisher, Diana O., Frankenberg, Stephen, Hill, Brydie M., Hohnen, Rosemary, Jolly, Chris J., Kelly, Ella, MacDonald, Anna J., Moussalli, Adnan, Ottewell, Kym, Phillips, Ben L., Radford, Ian J., Spencer, Peter B. S., Trewella, Gavin J., Umbrello, Linette S. and Banks, Sam C. (2022). Population genomics of a predatory mammal reveals patterns of decline and impacts of exposure to toxic toads. Molecular Ecology, 31 (21), 5468-5486. doi: 10.1111/mec.16680
Hernandez‐Santin, Lorna, Goldizen, Anne W. and Fisher, Diana O. (2022). Northern quolls in the Pilbara persist in high‐quality habitat, despite a decline trajectory consistent with range eclipse by feral cats. Conservation Science and Practice, 4 (8) e12733, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/csp2.12733
Lavery, Tyrone H., Collett, Rachael, Fisher, Diana O., Hoskin, Conrad J. and Rowland, Jesse (2022). White-footed dunnarts (Sminthopsis leucopus) in Queensland's Wet Tropics, with the description of a new subspecies. Australian Mammalogy, 45 (1), 77-90. doi: 10.1071/AM22002
Legge, Sarah, Rumpff, Libby, Woinarski, John C. Z., Whiterod, Nick S., Ward, Michelle, Southwell, Darren G., Scheele, Ben C., Nimmo, Dale G., Lintermans, Mark, Geyle, Hayley M., Garnett, Stephen T., Hayward‐Brown, Brittany, Ensbey, Miki, Ehmke, Glenn, Ahyong, Shane T., Blackmore, Caroline J., Bower, Deborah S., Brizuela‐Torres, Diego, Burbidge, Allan H., Burns, Phoebe A., Butler, Gavin, Catullo, Renee, Chapple, David G., Dickman, Christopher R., Doyle, Katherine E., Ferris, Jason, Fisher, Diana, Gallagher, Rachael, Gillespie, Graeme R. ... Zukowski, Sylvia (2022). The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31 (10), 2085-2104. doi: 10.1111/geb.13473
Hernandez-Santin, Lorna and Fisher, Diana O. (2022). Community structure of dasyurid marsupials in the arid Pilbara is consistent with a top-down system, their distribution and abundance depend on that of larger members of the guild. Journal of Arid Environments, 198 104680, 104680. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104680
Tian, Ran, Han, Kai, Geng, Yuepan, Yang, Chen, Shi, Chengcheng, Thomas, Patrick B., Pearce, Coral, Moffatt, Kate, Ma, Siming, Xu, Shixia, Yang, Guang, Zhou, Xuming, Gladyshev, Vadim N., Liu, Xin, Fisher, Diana O., Chopin, Lisa K., Leiner, Natália O., Baker, Andrew M., Fan, Guangyi and Seim, Inge (2022). A chromosome-level genome of Antechinus flavipes provides a reference for an Australian marsupial genus with male death after mating. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22 (2), 740-754. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13501
Jackson, S. M., Baker, A. M., Eldridge, M. D. B., Fisher, D. O., Frankham, G. J., Lavery, T. H., MacDonald, A. J., Menkhorst, P. W., Phillips, M. J., Potter, S., Rowe, K. C., Travouillon, K. J. and Umbrello, L. S. (2022). The importance of appropriate taxonomy in Australian mammalogy. Australian Mammalogy, 45 (1), 13-23. doi: 10.1071/am22016
Baker, Andrew M., Batista, Stephane, Laidlaw, Melinda J., Baker, Lynn M., Gynther, Ian C., Hines, Harry B. and Fisher, Diana O. (2021). Endangered Australian marsupial species survive recent drought and megafires. Oryx, 55 (6), 812-813. doi: 10.1017/s0030605321001149
Tian, Ran, Han, Kai, Geng, Yuepan, Yang, Chen, Guo, Han, Shi, Chengcheng, Xu, Shixia, Yang, Guang, Zhou, Xuming, Gladyshev, Vadim N., Liu, Xin, Chopin, Lisa K., Fisher, Diana O., Baker, Andrew M., Leiner, Natália O, Fan, Guangyi and Seim, Inge (2021). A chromosome-level genome of the agile gracile mouse opossum (Gracilinanus agilis). Genome Biology and Evolution, 13 (8) evab162. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab162
Bolam, Friederike C., Mair, Louise, Angelico, Marco, Brooks, Thomas M., Burgman, Mark, Hermes, Claudia, Hoffmann, Michael, Martin, Rob W., McGowan, Philip J. K., Rodrigues, Ana S. L., Rondinini, Carlo, Westrip, James R. S., Wheatley, Hannah, Bedolla-Guzman, Yuliana, Calzada, Javier, Child, Matthew F., Cranswick, Peter A., Dickman, Christopher R., Fessl, Birgit, Fisher, Diana O., Garnett, Stephen T., Groombridge, Jim J., Johnson, Christopher N., Kennerley, Rosalind J., King, Sarah R. B., Lamoreux, John F., Lees, Alexander C., Lens, Luc, Mahood, Simon P. ... Butchart, Stuart H. M. (2020). How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?. Conservation Letters, 14 (1) e12762. doi: 10.1111/conl.12762
Lavery, Tyrone H., Posala, Corzzierrah K., Tasker, Elizabeth M. and Fisher, Diana O. (2020). Ecological generalism and resilience of tropical island mammals to logging: a 23 year test. Global Change Biology, 26 (6), 3285-3293. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15038
Hernandez-Santin, Lorna, Dunlop, Judy A., Goldizen, Anne W. and Fisher, Diana O. (2019). Demography of the northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) in the most arid part of its range. Journal of Mammalogy, 100 (4) gyz092, 1191-1198. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz092
Firman, Renée C., Ottewell, Kym M., Fisher, Diana O. and Tedeschi, Jamie N. (2019). Range‐wide genetic structure of a cooperative mouse in a semi‐arid zone: evidence for panmixia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32 (10) jeb.13498, 1014-1026. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13498
Hayes, G. L. T., Simmons, L. W., Dugand, R. J., Mills, H. R., Roberts, J. D., Tomkins, J. L. and Fisher, D. O. (2019). Male semelparity and multiple paternity confirmed in an arid‐zone dasyurid. Journal of Zoology, 308 (4) jzo.12672, 266-273. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12672
Reside, April E., Briscoe, Natalie J., Dickman, Chris R., Greenville, Aaron C., Hradsky, Bronwyn A., Kark, Salit, Kearney, Michael R., Kutt, Alex S., Nimmo, Dale G., Pavey, Chris R., Read, John L., Ritchie, Euan G., Roshier, David, Skroblin, Anja, Stone, Zoe, West, Matt and Fisher, Diana O. (2019). Persistence through tough times: fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28 (6), 1303-1330. doi: 10.1007/s10531-019-01734-7
Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Auerbach, Nancy, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Dickman, Chris R., Fisher, Diana O., Grantham, Hedley, Holden, Matthew H., Lavery, Tyrone H., Leseberg, Nicholas P., O’Connor, James, Roberson, Leslie, Smyth, Anita K., Stone, Zoe, Tulloch, Vivitskaia, Turak, Eren, Watson, James E. M. and Wardle, Glenda M. (2019). Reply to ‘Consider species specialism when publishing datasets’ and ‘Decision trees for data publishing may exacerbate conservation conflict’. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3 (3), 320-321. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0805-6
Collett, Rachael A., Baker, Andrew M. and Fisher, Diana O. (2018). Prey productivity and predictability drive different axes of life-history variation in carnivorous marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285 (1890) 20181291, 20181291. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1291
Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Auerbach, Nancy, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Bayraktarov, Elisa, Butt, Nathalie, Dickman, Chris R., Ehmke, Glenn, Fisher, Diana O., Grantham, Hedley, Holden, Matthew H., Lavery, Tyrone H., Leseberg, Nicholas P., Nicholls, Miles, O'Connor, James, Roberson, Leslie, Smyth, Anita K., Stone, Zoe, Tulloch, Vivitskaia, Turak, Eren, Wardle, Glenda M. and Watson, James E. M. (2018). A decision tree for assessing the risks and benefits of publishing biodiversity data. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 (8), 1209-1217. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0608-1
Geyle, Hayley M., Woinarski, John C.Z., Baker, G. Barry, Dickman, Chris R., Dutson, Guy, Fisher, Diana O., Ford, Hugh, Holdsworth, Mark, Jones, Menna E., Kutt, Alex, Legge, Sarah, Leiper, Ian, Loyn, Richard, Murphy, Brett P., Menkhorst, Peter, Reside, April E., Ritchie, Euan G., Roberts, Finley E., Tingley, Reid and Garnett, Stephen T. (2018). Quantifying extinction risk and forecasting the number of impending Australian bird and mammal extinctions. Pacific Conservation Biology, 24 (2), 157-167. doi: 10.1071/PC18006
Wheatley, Rebecca, Niehaus, Amanda C., Fisher, Diana O. and Wilson, Robbie S. (2018). Ecological context and the probability of mistakes underlie speed choice. Functional Ecology, 32 (4), 990-1000. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13036
Wheatley, Rebecca, Clemente, Christofer J., Niehaus, Amanda C., Fisher, Diana O. and Wilson, Robbie S. (2018). Surface friction alters the agility of a small Australian marsupial. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (Pt 8) jeb172544, jeb172544. doi: 10.1242/jeb.172544
Kearney, Stephen G., Cawardine, Josie, Reside, April E., Fisher, Diana O., Maron, Martine, Doherty, Tim S., Legge, Sarah, Silcock, Jennifer, Woinarski, John C. Z., Garnett, Stephen T., Wintle, Brendan A. and Watson, James E. M. (2018). The threats to Australia's imperilled species and implications for a national conservation response. Pacific Conservation Biology, 25 (3), 231-244. doi: 10.1071/PC18024
Collett, Rachael A. and Fisher, Diana O. (2017). Time-lapse camera trapping as an alternative to pitfall trapping for estimating activity of leaf litter arthropods. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (18), 7527-7533. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3275
Preece, Noel D., Abell, Sandra E., Grogan, Laura, Wayne, Adrian, Skerratt, Lee F., van Oosterzee, Penny, Shima, Amy L., Daszak, Peter, Field, Hume, Reiss, Andrea, Berger, Lee, Rymer, Tasmin L., Fisher, Diana O., Lawes, Michael J., Laurance, Susan G., McCallum, Hamish, Esson, Carol and Epstein, Jon H. (2017). A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation, 214, 136-146. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.014
Ringma, Jeremy L., Wintle, Brendan, Fuller, Richard A., Fisher, Diana and Bode, Michael (2017). Minimizing species extinctions through strategic planning for conservation fencing. Conservation Biology, 31 (5), 1029-1038. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12922
Lee, Tasmin E. , Fisher, Diana O. , Blomberg, Simon P. and Wintle, Brendan A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology, 23 (2), 621-634. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13421
Verde Arregoitia, Luis D., Fisher, Diana O. and Schweizer, Manuel (2017). Morphology captures diet and locomotor types in rodents. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (1) 160957, 160957. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160957
Fasi, John, Furlong, Michael J. and Fisher, Diana (2016). Subsistence farmers’ management of infestations of the little fire ant in garden plots on Bauro, Makira Province, Solomon Islands. Human Ecology, 44 (6), 765-774. doi: 10.1007/s10745-016-9856-3
Hernandez-Santin, Lorna, Goldizen, Anne W. and Fisher, Diana O. (2016). Introduced predators and habitat structure influence range contraction of an endangered native predator, the northern quoll. Biological Conservation, 203, 160-167. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.023
Lawes, Michael J., Fisher, Diana O., Johnson, Chris N., Blomberg, Simon P., Frank, Anke S. K., Fritz, Susanne A., McCallum, Hamish, VanDerWal, Jeremy, Abbott, Brett N., Legge, Sarah, Letnic, Mike, Thomas, Colette R., Thurgate, Nikki, Fisher, Alaric, Gordon, Iain J. and Kutt, Alex (2015). Correlates of recent declines of rodents in northern and southern Australia: habitat structure is critical. PloS One, 10 (6) e0130626, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130626
Weisbecker, Vera, Blomberg, Simon, Goldizen, Anne W, Brown, Meredeth and Fisher, Diana (2015). The Evolution of Relative Brain Size in Marsupials Is Energetically Constrained but Not Driven by Behavioral Complexity. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 85 (2), 125-135. doi: 10.1159/000377666
Fisher, Diana O., Johnson,Chris N., Lawes, Michael J., Fritz, Susanne A., McCallum, Hamish, Blomberg, Simon P., VanDerWal, Jeremy, Abbott, Brett, Frank, Anke, Legge, Sarah, Letnic, Mike, Thomas, Colette R., Fisher, Alaric, Gordon, Iain J. and Kutt, Alex (2015). Response to commentary by Woinarski (Critical-weight-range marsupials in northern Australia are declining: a commentary on Fisher et al. (2014) ‘The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?’). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24 (1), 123-125. doi: 10.1111/geb.12252
Verde Arregoitia, Luis D., Leach, Katie, Reid, Neil and Fisher, Diana O. (2015). Diversity, extinction, and threat status in Lagomorphs. Ecography, 38 (11), 1155-1165. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01063
Lynch, A. J. J., Thackway, R., Specht, A., Beggs, P. J., Brisbane, S., Burns, E. L., Byrne, M., Capon, S. J., Casanova, M. T., Clarke, P. A., Davies, J. M., Dovers, S., Dwyer, R. G., Ens, E., Fisher, D. O., Flanigan, M., Garnier, E., Guru, S. M., Kilminster, K., Locke, J., Mac Nally, R., McMahon, K. M., Mitchell, P. J., Pierson, J. C., Rodgers, E. M., Russell-Smith, J., Udy, J. and Waycott, M. (2015). Transdisciplinary synthesis for ecosystem science, policy and management: the Australian experience. Science of the Total Environment, 534, 173-184. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.100
Nuske, Susan, Fisher, Diana and Seddon, Jennifer (2014). Common species affects the utility of non-invasive genetic monitoring of a cryptic endangered mammal: the bridled nailtail wallaby. Austral Ecology, 39 (6), 633-642. doi: 10.1111/aec.12124
Fisher, Diana O., Johnson, Chris N., Lawes, Michael J., Fritz, Susanne A., Mccallum, Hamish, Blomberg, Simon P., Vanderwal, Jeremy, Abbott, Brett, Frank, Anke, Legge, Sarah, Letnic, Mike, Thomas, Colette R., Fisher, Alaric, Gordon, Iain J. and Kutt, Alex (2014). The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: Is history repeating?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23 (2), 181-190. doi: 10.1111/geb.12088
Fisher, Diana O., Dickman, Christopher R., Jones, Menna E. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2013). Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (44), 17910-17914. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1310691110
Arregoitia, Luis Darcy Verde, Blomberg, Simon P. and Fisher, Diana O. (2013). Phylogenetic correlates of extinction risk in mammals: species in older lineages are not at greater risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1765) 20131092, 20131092.1-20131092 .7. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1092
Hagger, Valerie, Fisher, Diana, Schmidt, Susanne and Blomberg, Simon (2013). Assessing the vulnerability of an assemblage of subtropical rainforest vertebrate species to climate change in south-east Queensland. Austral Ecology, 38 (4), 465-475. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02437.x
Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Bowman, David M. J. S., Bond, Nick R., Murphy, Brett P., Moore, Andrew D., Fordham, Damien A., Thackway, Richard, Lawes, Michael J., McCallum, Hamish, Gregory, Stephen D., Dalal, Ram C., Boer, Matthias M., Lynch, A. Jasmyn J., Bradstock, Ross A., Brook, Barry W., Henry, Beverley K., Hunt, Leigh P., Fisher, Diana O., Hunter, David, Johnson, Christopher N., Keith, David A., Lefroy, Edward C., Penman, Trent D., Meyer, Wayne S., Thomson, James R., Thornton, Craig M., VanDerWal, Jeremy, Williams, Richard J., Keniger, Lucy and Specht, Alison (2013). Brave new green world - Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity. Biological Conservation, 161, 71-90. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.012
Lavery, Tyrone H., Fisher, Diana O., Flannery, Tim F. and Leung, Luke K-P (2013). Higher extinction rates of dasyurids on Australo-Papuan continental shelf islands and the zoogeography of New Guinea mammals. Journal of Biogeography, 40 (4), 747-758. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12072
Weisbecker, Vera, Ashwell, Ken and Fisher, Diana (2013). An improved body mass dataset for the study of marsupial brain size evolution. Brain Behavior and Evolution, 82 (2), 81-82. doi: 10.1159/000348647
Kingsley, Lisa, Goldizen, Anne and Fisher, Diana O. (2012). Establishment of an endangered species on a private nature refuge: What can we learn from reintroductions of the bridled nailtail wallaby Onychogalea fraenata?. Oryx, 46 (2), 240-248. doi: 10.1017/S0030605311000652
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring extinction of mammals from sighting records, threats, and biological traits. Conservation Biology, 26 (1), 57-67. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Wang, Yiwei and Fisher, Diana O. (2012). Dingoes affect activity of feral cats, but do not exclude them from the habitat of an endangered macropod. Wildlife Research, 39 (7), 611-620. doi: 10.1071/WR11210
Fisher, Diana O. (2011). Trajectories from extinction: Where are missing mammals rediscovered?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20 (3), 415-425. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00624.x
Fisher, Diana O. (2011). Cost, effort and outcome of mammal rediscovery : Neglect of small species. Biological Conservation, 144 (5), 1712-1718. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.005
Fisher, D. O. and Blomberg, S. P. (2011). Correlates of rediscovery and the detectability of extinction in mammals. Proceedings of The Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1708), 1090-1097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1579
Fisher, Diana O., Nuske, Susan, Green, Sally, Seddon, Jennifer M. and McDonald, Brenda (2011). The evolution of sociality in small, carnivorous marsupials: The lek hypothesis revisited. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65 (4), 593-605. doi: 10.1007/s00265-010-1060-7
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2011). Costs of reproduction and terminal investment by females in a semelparous marsupial. PLoS One, 6 (1 Article # e15226) e15226, e15226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015226
Fisher, D.O. and Blomberg, S.P. (2009). Toe-bud clipping of juvenile small marsupials for ecological field research: No detectable negative effects on growth or survival. Austral Ecology, 34 (8), 858-865. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01991.x
Fisher, D. O., Lambin, X. and Yletyinen, S. M. (2009). Experimental translocation of juvenile water voles in a Scottish lowland metapopulation. Population Ecology, 51 (2), 289-295. doi: 10.1007/s10144-008-0122-4
Johnson, Christopher N., Isaac, Joanne I. and Fisher, Diana O. (2007). Rarity of a Top Predator Triggers Continent-wide Collapse of Mammal Prey: Dingoes and Marsupials in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 274 (1608), 341-346. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3711
Lorch , Dagmar, Fisher, Diana O. and Spratt, David M. (2007). Variation in ectoparasite infestation on the brown antechinus, Antechinus stuartii, with regard to host, habitat and environmental parameters. Australian journal of zoology, 55 (3), 169-176. doi: 10.1071/ZO06073
Fisher, Diana O., Double, Michael C., Blomberg, Simon P., Jennions, Michael D. and Cockburn, Andrew (2006). Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild. Nature, 444 (7115), 89-92. doi: 10.1038/nature05206
Fisher, D. O. and Cockburn, A. (2006). The large-male advantage in brown antechinuses: female choice, male dominance, and delayed male death. Behavioral Ecology, 17 (2), 164-171. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arj012
Fisher, D. O., Double, M. C. and Moore, B. D. (2006). Number of mates and timing of mating affect offspring growth in the small marsupial Antechinus agilis. Animal Behaviour, 71 (2), 289-297. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.03.041
Fisher, D. O. (2005). Population density and presence of the mother are related to natal dispersal in male and female Antechinus stuartii. Australian Journal of Zoology, 53 (2), 103-110. doi: 10.1071/ZO04068
Fisher, Diana O. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2004). The comparative method in conservation biology. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 19 (7), 391-398. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.05.004
Fisher, Diana O., Blomberg, Simon P. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2003). Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the decline and extinction of Australian marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 270 (1526), 1801-1808. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2447
Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Owens, I. P. (2002). Convergent maternal care strategies in ungulates and macropods. Evolution, 56 (1), 167-176. doi: 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[0167:CMCSIU]2.0.CO;2
Fisher, Diana O., Owens, Ian P. F. and Johnson, Christopher N. (2001). The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials. Ecology, 82 (12), 3531-3540. doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[3531:TEBOLH]2.0.CO;2
Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Hoyle, S. D. (2001). Mechanisms of drought-induced population decline in an endangered wallaby. Biological Conservation, 102 (1), 107-115. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00200-7
Fisher, D. O. and Goldizen, A. W. (2001). Maternal care and infant behaviour of the bridled nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata). Journal of Zoology, 255 (3) S095283690100142X, 321-330. doi: 10.1017/S095283690100142X
Fisher, Diana O. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2000). Female home range size and the evolution of social organization in macropod marsupials. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69 (6), 1083-1098. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2000.00450.x
Fisher, Diana (2000). Endangered bridled nailtail wallaby: A strategy for survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 109, 115-118.
Fisher, D. O. (2000). Effects of vegetation structure, food and shelter on the home range and habitat use of an endangered wallaby. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37 (4), 660-671. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00518.x
Fisher, Diana O., Hoyle, Simon D. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2000). Population dynamics and survival of an endangered wallaby: A comparison of four methods. Ecological Applications, 10 (3), 901-910. doi: 10.2307/2641054
Fisher, D. and Lara, M. C. (1999). Effects of body size and home range on access to mates and paternity in male bridled nailtail wallabies.. Animal Behaviour, 58 (1), 121-130. doi: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1119
Fisher, Diana O. (1999). Offspring sex ratio variation in the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 45 (6), 411-419. doi: 10.1007/s002650050578
Fisher, Diana (1998). Endangered bridled nailtail wallaby: a strategy for survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 107, 115-118.
Fisher, DO and Dickman, CR (1993). Diets of Insectivorous Marsupials in Arid Australia - Selection for Prey Type, Size or Hardness. Journal of Arid Environments, 25 (4), 397-410. doi: 10.1006/jare.1993.1072
Fisher, D. O. and Dickman, C. R. (1993). Body-size prey size relationships in insectivorous marsupials - tests of 3 hypotheses. Ecology, 74 (6), 1871-1883. doi: 10.2307/1939944
Thesis
Fisher, Diana (1999). Behavioural ecology and demography of the bridled nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/283775