Peer-reviewed publications
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In Press:
70. Siracusa E.R., Pavez-Fox M.A., Negron-Del Valle J.E., Phillips D., Platt M.L., Snyder-Mackler N., Higham J.P., Brent L.J.N., and Silk M.J. Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate. In Press Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
[preprint]
2024:
69. Iacopini I., Foote J.R., Fefferman N.H., Derryberry E.P. and Silk M.J. Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379, 20230190.
[link to journal page]
68. Albery G.F., Bansal S., Silk M.J. Comparative approaches in social network ecology. Ecology Letters, 27, e14345.
[link to journal page]
2023:
67. Downing B., Silk, M., Delahay R., Bearhop S. and Royle N. Culling-induced perturbation of social networks of wild geese reinforces rather than disrupts associations among survivors. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 2613-2624.
[link to journal page]
66. Fountain-Jones N.M., Silk M.J., Appaw R.C., Hamede R., Rushmore J., VanderWaal K., Craft M.E., Carver S. and Charleston M. The spectral underpinnings of pathogen spread on animal networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290, 20230951.
[link to journal page]
65. Young M.J., Silk M.J, Pritchard A.J. and Fefferman N.H. The interplay of social constraints and individual variation in risk tolerance in the emergence of superspreaders. Interface, 20, 20230077.
[link to journal page]
64. Silk M.J. Approaches to represent animal social networks: an overview, Animal Behaviour, 201, 157-166.
[link to journal page]
63. Silk M.J. and Gimenez O. Generation and applications of simulated datasets to integrate social network and demographic analyses. Ecology and Evolution, 13, 39871.
[link to journal page]
62. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. Influence of Lived Experiences on Public Responses to Future Diseases via (De) Sensitization of Concern. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17, e251.
[link to journal page]
2022:
61. Silk M.J., Wilber M.Q. and Fefferman N.H. Capturing Complex Interactions in Disease Ecology with Simplicial Sets. Ecology Letters, 25, 2217-2231.
[link to journal page]
60. Wilber M.Q., DeMarchi J., Fefferman N.H. and Silk M.J. High prevalence does not necessarily equal maintenance species: avoiding biased claims of disease reservoirs when using surveillance data. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 1740-1754.
[link to journal page]
59. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley R.A. and Fefferman N.H. How reported outbreak data can shape individual behavior in a social world. Journal of Public Health Policy, 43, 360-378.
[link to journal page]
58. Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley A. and Fefferman N. Observations and conversations: how communities learn about infection risk can impact the success of non-pharmaceutical interventions against epidemics. BMC Public Health, 22, 1-12.
[link to journal page]
57. Satsias Z.*, Silk M.J.*, Hockings K., Cibot M., Rohen J. and McLennan M. Sex specific responses to anthropogenic risk shape wild chimpanzee social networks in a human-impacted landscape. Animal Behaviour, 186, 29-40. (*authors contributed equally).
[link to journal page]
56. Carrignon S., Bentley R.A., Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. How social learning shapes the efficacy of preventative health behaviors in an outbreak. PLoS One, 17, e0262505.
[link to journal page]
55. Young M.J., Silk M.J., Pritchard A.J. and Fefferman N.H. Diversity in Valuing Social Contact and Risk Tolerance Lead to the Emergence of Homophily in Populations Facing Infectious Threats. Physical Review E, 105, 044315.
[link to journal page]
54. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley R.A and Fefferman N.H. Balancing timeliness of reporting with increasing testing probability for epidemic data. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7, 106-116.
[link to journal page]
53. Clements S.J., Zhao Q., Silk M.J., Hodgson D.J. and Weegman M.D. Modelling associations between animal social structure and demography. Animal Behaviour, 188, 51-63.
[link to journal page]
52. Gall G.E.C., Evans J.C., Silk M.J., Ortiz-Jimenez C.A. and Smith J.E. Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 705-720.
[link to journal page]
51. Swan G., Bearhop S., Redpath S., Silk M., Padfield D., Goodwin C. and McDonald R. Associations between abundances of free-roaming gamebirds and common buzzard Buteo buteo are not driven by consumption of gamebirds in the buzzard breeding season. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8877.
[link to journal page]
2021:
50. Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, 122.
[link to journal page]
49. Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley A. and Fefferman N. Improving pandemic mitigation policies across communities through coupled dynamics of risk perception and infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20210834.
[link to journal page]
48. Hobson E.A., Silk M.J., Fefferman N.H., Larremore D.B., Rombach P., Shai S. and Pinter-Wollman N. A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis. Biological Reviews, 96, 2716-2734.
[link to journal page]
47. Silk M.J., McDonald R.A., Delahay R.J., Padfield D. and Hodgson D.J. CMRnet: An R package to derive networks of social interactions and movement from mark-recapture data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 70-75.
[link to journal page]
[link to R package]
[link to R package help pages]
46. Silk M.J. and Hodgson D.J. Differentiated social relationships and the pace-of-life-history. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36, 498-506.
[link to journal page]
45. Silk M.J. and Hodgson D.J. Life history and population regulation shape demographic competence and influence the maintenance of endemic disease. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5, 82-91.
[link to journal page]
44. Silk, M.J., Correia R., Veríssimo D., Verma A. and Crowley S.L. The implications of digital visual media for human-nature relationships. People and Nature, 3, 1130-1137.
[link to journal page]
43. Evans J.C., Hodgson D.J., Boogert N.J. and Silk M.J. Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75,163.
[link to journal page]
42. Lemanski N.J., Silk M.J., Fefferman N.H. and Udiani O. How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, 164.
[link to journal page]
41. Crowley E.J., Silk M.J. and Crowley S.L. The educational value of virtual ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2. People and Nature, 3, 1229-1243.
[link to journal page]
40. Fielding H.R., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Characterisation of potential superspreader farms for bovine tuberculosis. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 7, 310-321.
[link to journal page]
39. Fielding H.R., Silk M.J., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Wilson-Aggarwal J.K., Gauvin L., Ozella L. Cattuto C. and McDonald R.A. Spatial and temporal variation in proximity networks of commercial dairy cattle in Great Britain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 194, 105443.
[link to journal page]
38. Weiss M.N., Franks D.W., Brent L.J.N., Ellis S., Silk M.J. and Croft D.P. Common datastream permutations of animal social network data are not appropriate for hypothesis testing using regression models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 255-265.
[link to journal page]
37. Franks D.W., Weiss M.N., Silk M.J., Perryman R.J.Y. and Croft D.P. Calculating effect sizes in animal social network analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 33-41.
[link to journal page]
36. Hasenjager M.J., Silk M.J. and Fisher D.N. Multilayer network analysis: new opportunities and challenges for studying animal social systems. Current Zoology, 67, 45-48.
[link to journal page]
35. Harrison X.A. et al. (41 authors total). Host-associated fungal communities are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20210552.
[link to journal page]
2020:
34. Silk M.J., Harrison X.A. and Hodgson D.J. Perils and pitfalls of mixed-effects regression models in biology. PeerJ. 8:e9522
[link to journal page]
33. Evans J.C*., Fisher D.N*. and Silk M.J.* The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analysing animal networks. Behavioral Ecology, 31, 1266-1276.
[link to journal page]
32. Evans J.C.*, Silk M.J.*, Boogert N. and Hodgson D.J. Infected or informed? Social structure and the simultaneous transmission of information and infectious disease. Oikos, 129, 1271-1288. (*authors contributed equally).
[link to journal page]
31. Kinsley A.C., Rossi G., Silk M.J. and VanderWaal K. Multilayer and multiplex networks: an introduction to their use in veterinary epidemiology. Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
[link to journal page]
30. Kehoe R., Sanders D., Cruse D., Silk M., Gaston K., Bridle J., van Veen F. Changes in light regime driven by day length and artificial light destabilise host-parasitoid population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology.
[link to journal page]
29. Swan G.J.F., Bearhop S., Redpath S.M., Silk M.J., Goodwin C., Inger R. and McDonald R.A. 2019. Evaluating Bayesian stable isotope mixing models of wild animal diet and the effects of trophic discrimination factors and informative priors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 139-149.
[link to journal page]
28. Weiss M.N., Franks D.W., Balcomb, K.C., Ellifrit D.K., Silk M.J., Cant M.A. and Croft D.P. Modelling cetacean morbillivirus outbreaks in an endangered killer whale population. Biological Conservation, 242, 108398.
[link to journal page]
27. McNicol C.M., Bavin D., Bearhop S., Ferryman M., Gill R., Goodwin C.E.D., Macpherson J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Translocated native pine martens Martes martes alter short-term space use by invasive non-native grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57, 903-913.
[link to journal page]
26. McNicol C.M., Bavin D., Bearhop S., Bridges J., Croose E., Gill R., Goodwin C.E.D., Lewis J., Macpherson J., Padfield D., Schofield H., Silk M.J., Tomlinson A.J. and McDonald R.A. Post-release movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes. Ecology and Evolution.
[link to journal page]
25. Allen A., Byrne A., Lavery J., Courcier E., O’Keefe J., Fogarty U., Delahay R., Wilson G., Newman C., Buesching C., Silk M., O’Meara D., Skuce R., Biek R. and McDonald R.A. Genetic evidence further elucidates the history and extent of badger introductions from Great Britain into Ireland. Royal Society Open Science, 7:200288.
[link to journal page]
24. Fielding H.R., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Effects of trading networks on the risk of bovine tuberculosis incidents on cattle farms in Great Britain. Royal Society Open Science, 7:191806.
[link to journal page]
2019:
23. Silk M.J.. Hodgson D.J., Rozins C., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Boots M. and McDonald R.A. Integrating behaviour, demography and disease dynamics through network models: applications to disease management in declining wildlife populations. 2019. Philiosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374.
[link to journal page]
22. Wilson-Aggarwal J.K., Ozella L., Tizzoni M., Cattuto C., Swan G.J.F., Silk M.J., Zingeser J.A. and McDonald R.A. 2019. High resolution contact networks of free-ranging domestic dogs and implications for the transmission of infection. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(7), e0007565.
[link to journal page]
21. Silk M.J., Cant M.A., Cafazzo S., Natoli E. and McDonald R.A. 2019. Elevated aggression is associated with uncertainty in a network of dog dominance interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286.
[link to journal page]
20. Finn K.R., Silk M.J., Porter M.A. and Pinter-Wollman N. 2019. The use of multilayer network analysis in animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 149, 7-22.
[link to journal page]
19. Fielding H. McKinley T., Delahay R., Silk M.J. and McDonald R. 2019. Contact chains of cattle farms in Great Britain. Royal Society Open Science, 6.
[link to journal page]
18. Jelbert K., Buss D., McDonald J., Townley S., Franco M., Stott I., Jones O., Salguero-Gomez R., Buckley Y., Knight T., Silk M., Sargent F., Rolph S., Wilson P. and Hodgson D. Demographic amplification is a predictor of invasiveness among plants. Nature Communications, 10, 5602.
[link to journal page]
2018:
17. Rozins C.*, Silk M.J.*, Croft D., Delahay R., Hodgson D., McDonald R., Weber N. and Boots M. 2018. Social structure contains epidemics and regulates individual roles in disease transmission in a group‐living mammal. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 12044-12055 (*authors contributed equally)
[link to journal page]
16. Goodwin C., Suggitt A., Bennie J., Silk M.J., Duffy J., Al-Fulaij N., Bailey S., Hodgson D. and McDonald R. 2018. Climate, landscape and habitat determinants of hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius population status and the importance of woodland management. Mammal Review, 48, 209-223.
[link to journal page]
15. Silk M.J., Finn K.R., Porter M.A. and Pinter-Wollman N. 2018. Can multilayer networks advance animal behaviour research? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 376-378.
[link to journal page]
14. Silk M.J.*, Crowley S.L.*, Woodhead A.J. & Nuno A. 2018. Considering connections between Hollywood and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 32, 597-606. (*authors contributed equally)
[link to journal page]
13. Silk M.J., Weber N.L., Steward L.C., Hodgson D.J., Boots M., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J. and McDonald R.A. 2018. Contact networks structured by sex underpin sex-specific epidemiology of tuberculosis infection. Ecology Letters, 21, 309-318.
[link to journal page]
12. Silk M.J., Drewe J.A., Delahay R.J., Weber N., Steward L.C., Wilson-Aggarwal J., Boots M., Hodgson D.J., Croft D.P. and McDonald R.A. 2018. Quantifying direct and indirect contacts for the potential transmission of infection between species using a multilayer contact network. Behaviour, 731-757.
[link to journal page]
11. McDonald J.L.*, Robertson A.* & Silk M.J.* 2018. Wildlife disease ecology from the individual to the population: insights from a long‐term study of a naturally‐infected European badger population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87,101-112. (*all authors contributed equally)
[link to journal page]
10. Silk M.J. 2018. The next steps in the study of missing individuals in networks: a comment on Smith et al. (2017): Social Networks, 52, 37-41.
[link to journal page]
2017:
9. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Hodgson D.J. Boots M. & McDonald R.A. 2017. The application of statistical network models in disease research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 1026-1041.
[link to journal page]
8. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Hodgson D.J., Boots M., Weber N. & McDonald R.A. 2017. Using social network measures in wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology and management. BioScience, 67, 245-257.
[link to journal page]
7. Silk M.J., & Fisher D.N. 2017. Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research. Animal Behaviour, 132, 137-146.
[link to journal page]
6. Silk M.J., Weber N., Steward L.C., Delahay R.J., Croft D.P., Hodgson D.J., Boots M. & McDonald R.A. 2017. Seasonal variation in daily patterns of social contacts in the European badger Meles meles. Ecology and Evolution, 7.
[link to journal page]
5. Fisher D.N., Ilany A., Silk M.J. & Tregenza T. 2017. Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86, 202-212.
[link to journal page]
4. Fisher D.N., Silk M.J. and Franks D.W. 2017. Is a positive degree correlation typical for a social network? "Trends in Social Network Analysis: Information Propagation, User Behavior Modelling, Forecasting, and Vulnerability Assessment" Springer.
[link to journal page]
2015:
3. Silk M.J., Jackson A.L., Croft D.P., Colhoun K. & Bearhop S. 2015. The consequences of unidentifiable individuals for the analysis of an animal social network. Animal Behaviour, 104, 1-11.
[link to journal page]
2014:
2. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Tregenza T. and Bearhop S. 2014. The importance of fission-fusion social group dynamics in birds. Ibis, 156, 701-715.
[link to journal page]
2010:
1. Couvillon M.J., Barton S.N., Cohen J.A., Fabricius O.K., Kärcher M.H., Cooper L.S., Silk M.J., Helanterä H. and Ratnieks F.L.W. 2010. Alarm pheromones do not mediate rapid shifts in honey bee guard acceptance threshold. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36, 1306-1308.
[link to journal page]
In Press:
70. Siracusa E.R., Pavez-Fox M.A., Negron-Del Valle J.E., Phillips D., Platt M.L., Snyder-Mackler N., Higham J.P., Brent L.J.N., and Silk M.J. Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate. In Press Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
[preprint]
2024:
69. Iacopini I., Foote J.R., Fefferman N.H., Derryberry E.P. and Silk M.J. Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379, 20230190.
[link to journal page]
68. Albery G.F., Bansal S., Silk M.J. Comparative approaches in social network ecology. Ecology Letters, 27, e14345.
[link to journal page]
2023:
67. Downing B., Silk, M., Delahay R., Bearhop S. and Royle N. Culling-induced perturbation of social networks of wild geese reinforces rather than disrupts associations among survivors. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 2613-2624.
[link to journal page]
66. Fountain-Jones N.M., Silk M.J., Appaw R.C., Hamede R., Rushmore J., VanderWaal K., Craft M.E., Carver S. and Charleston M. The spectral underpinnings of pathogen spread on animal networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290, 20230951.
[link to journal page]
65. Young M.J., Silk M.J, Pritchard A.J. and Fefferman N.H. The interplay of social constraints and individual variation in risk tolerance in the emergence of superspreaders. Interface, 20, 20230077.
[link to journal page]
64. Silk M.J. Approaches to represent animal social networks: an overview, Animal Behaviour, 201, 157-166.
[link to journal page]
63. Silk M.J. and Gimenez O. Generation and applications of simulated datasets to integrate social network and demographic analyses. Ecology and Evolution, 13, 39871.
[link to journal page]
62. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. Influence of Lived Experiences on Public Responses to Future Diseases via (De) Sensitization of Concern. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17, e251.
[link to journal page]
2022:
61. Silk M.J., Wilber M.Q. and Fefferman N.H. Capturing Complex Interactions in Disease Ecology with Simplicial Sets. Ecology Letters, 25, 2217-2231.
[link to journal page]
60. Wilber M.Q., DeMarchi J., Fefferman N.H. and Silk M.J. High prevalence does not necessarily equal maintenance species: avoiding biased claims of disease reservoirs when using surveillance data. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 1740-1754.
[link to journal page]
59. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley R.A. and Fefferman N.H. How reported outbreak data can shape individual behavior in a social world. Journal of Public Health Policy, 43, 360-378.
[link to journal page]
58. Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley A. and Fefferman N. Observations and conversations: how communities learn about infection risk can impact the success of non-pharmaceutical interventions against epidemics. BMC Public Health, 22, 1-12.
[link to journal page]
57. Satsias Z.*, Silk M.J.*, Hockings K., Cibot M., Rohen J. and McLennan M. Sex specific responses to anthropogenic risk shape wild chimpanzee social networks in a human-impacted landscape. Animal Behaviour, 186, 29-40. (*authors contributed equally).
[link to journal page]
56. Carrignon S., Bentley R.A., Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. How social learning shapes the efficacy of preventative health behaviors in an outbreak. PLoS One, 17, e0262505.
[link to journal page]
55. Young M.J., Silk M.J., Pritchard A.J. and Fefferman N.H. Diversity in Valuing Social Contact and Risk Tolerance Lead to the Emergence of Homophily in Populations Facing Infectious Threats. Physical Review E, 105, 044315.
[link to journal page]
54. Pritchard A.J., Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley R.A and Fefferman N.H. Balancing timeliness of reporting with increasing testing probability for epidemic data. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7, 106-116.
[link to journal page]
53. Clements S.J., Zhao Q., Silk M.J., Hodgson D.J. and Weegman M.D. Modelling associations between animal social structure and demography. Animal Behaviour, 188, 51-63.
[link to journal page]
52. Gall G.E.C., Evans J.C., Silk M.J., Ortiz-Jimenez C.A. and Smith J.E. Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 705-720.
[link to journal page]
51. Swan G., Bearhop S., Redpath S., Silk M., Padfield D., Goodwin C. and McDonald R. Associations between abundances of free-roaming gamebirds and common buzzard Buteo buteo are not driven by consumption of gamebirds in the buzzard breeding season. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8877.
[link to journal page]
2021:
50. Silk M.J. and Fefferman N.H. The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, 122.
[link to journal page]
49. Silk M.J., Carrignon S., Bentley A. and Fefferman N. Improving pandemic mitigation policies across communities through coupled dynamics of risk perception and infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20210834.
[link to journal page]
48. Hobson E.A., Silk M.J., Fefferman N.H., Larremore D.B., Rombach P., Shai S. and Pinter-Wollman N. A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis. Biological Reviews, 96, 2716-2734.
[link to journal page]
47. Silk M.J., McDonald R.A., Delahay R.J., Padfield D. and Hodgson D.J. CMRnet: An R package to derive networks of social interactions and movement from mark-recapture data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 70-75.
[link to journal page]
[link to R package]
[link to R package help pages]
46. Silk M.J. and Hodgson D.J. Differentiated social relationships and the pace-of-life-history. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36, 498-506.
[link to journal page]
45. Silk M.J. and Hodgson D.J. Life history and population regulation shape demographic competence and influence the maintenance of endemic disease. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5, 82-91.
[link to journal page]
44. Silk, M.J., Correia R., Veríssimo D., Verma A. and Crowley S.L. The implications of digital visual media for human-nature relationships. People and Nature, 3, 1130-1137.
[link to journal page]
43. Evans J.C., Hodgson D.J., Boogert N.J. and Silk M.J. Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75,163.
[link to journal page]
42. Lemanski N.J., Silk M.J., Fefferman N.H. and Udiani O. How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, 164.
[link to journal page]
41. Crowley E.J., Silk M.J. and Crowley S.L. The educational value of virtual ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2. People and Nature, 3, 1229-1243.
[link to journal page]
40. Fielding H.R., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Characterisation of potential superspreader farms for bovine tuberculosis. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 7, 310-321.
[link to journal page]
39. Fielding H.R., Silk M.J., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Wilson-Aggarwal J.K., Gauvin L., Ozella L. Cattuto C. and McDonald R.A. Spatial and temporal variation in proximity networks of commercial dairy cattle in Great Britain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 194, 105443.
[link to journal page]
38. Weiss M.N., Franks D.W., Brent L.J.N., Ellis S., Silk M.J. and Croft D.P. Common datastream permutations of animal social network data are not appropriate for hypothesis testing using regression models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 255-265.
[link to journal page]
37. Franks D.W., Weiss M.N., Silk M.J., Perryman R.J.Y. and Croft D.P. Calculating effect sizes in animal social network analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 33-41.
[link to journal page]
36. Hasenjager M.J., Silk M.J. and Fisher D.N. Multilayer network analysis: new opportunities and challenges for studying animal social systems. Current Zoology, 67, 45-48.
[link to journal page]
35. Harrison X.A. et al. (41 authors total). Host-associated fungal communities are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20210552.
[link to journal page]
2020:
34. Silk M.J., Harrison X.A. and Hodgson D.J. Perils and pitfalls of mixed-effects regression models in biology. PeerJ. 8:e9522
[link to journal page]
33. Evans J.C*., Fisher D.N*. and Silk M.J.* The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analysing animal networks. Behavioral Ecology, 31, 1266-1276.
[link to journal page]
32. Evans J.C.*, Silk M.J.*, Boogert N. and Hodgson D.J. Infected or informed? Social structure and the simultaneous transmission of information and infectious disease. Oikos, 129, 1271-1288. (*authors contributed equally).
[link to journal page]
31. Kinsley A.C., Rossi G., Silk M.J. and VanderWaal K. Multilayer and multiplex networks: an introduction to their use in veterinary epidemiology. Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
[link to journal page]
30. Kehoe R., Sanders D., Cruse D., Silk M., Gaston K., Bridle J., van Veen F. Changes in light regime driven by day length and artificial light destabilise host-parasitoid population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology.
[link to journal page]
29. Swan G.J.F., Bearhop S., Redpath S.M., Silk M.J., Goodwin C., Inger R. and McDonald R.A. 2019. Evaluating Bayesian stable isotope mixing models of wild animal diet and the effects of trophic discrimination factors and informative priors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 139-149.
[link to journal page]
28. Weiss M.N., Franks D.W., Balcomb, K.C., Ellifrit D.K., Silk M.J., Cant M.A. and Croft D.P. Modelling cetacean morbillivirus outbreaks in an endangered killer whale population. Biological Conservation, 242, 108398.
[link to journal page]
27. McNicol C.M., Bavin D., Bearhop S., Ferryman M., Gill R., Goodwin C.E.D., Macpherson J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Translocated native pine martens Martes martes alter short-term space use by invasive non-native grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57, 903-913.
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26. McNicol C.M., Bavin D., Bearhop S., Bridges J., Croose E., Gill R., Goodwin C.E.D., Lewis J., Macpherson J., Padfield D., Schofield H., Silk M.J., Tomlinson A.J. and McDonald R.A. Post-release movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes. Ecology and Evolution.
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25. Allen A., Byrne A., Lavery J., Courcier E., O’Keefe J., Fogarty U., Delahay R., Wilson G., Newman C., Buesching C., Silk M., O’Meara D., Skuce R., Biek R. and McDonald R.A. Genetic evidence further elucidates the history and extent of badger introductions from Great Britain into Ireland. Royal Society Open Science, 7:200288.
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24. Fielding H.R., McKinley T.J., Delahay R.J., Silk M.J. and McDonald R.A. Effects of trading networks on the risk of bovine tuberculosis incidents on cattle farms in Great Britain. Royal Society Open Science, 7:191806.
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2019:
23. Silk M.J.. Hodgson D.J., Rozins C., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Boots M. and McDonald R.A. Integrating behaviour, demography and disease dynamics through network models: applications to disease management in declining wildlife populations. 2019. Philiosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374.
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22. Wilson-Aggarwal J.K., Ozella L., Tizzoni M., Cattuto C., Swan G.J.F., Silk M.J., Zingeser J.A. and McDonald R.A. 2019. High resolution contact networks of free-ranging domestic dogs and implications for the transmission of infection. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(7), e0007565.
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21. Silk M.J., Cant M.A., Cafazzo S., Natoli E. and McDonald R.A. 2019. Elevated aggression is associated with uncertainty in a network of dog dominance interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286.
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20. Finn K.R., Silk M.J., Porter M.A. and Pinter-Wollman N. 2019. The use of multilayer network analysis in animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 149, 7-22.
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19. Fielding H. McKinley T., Delahay R., Silk M.J. and McDonald R. 2019. Contact chains of cattle farms in Great Britain. Royal Society Open Science, 6.
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18. Jelbert K., Buss D., McDonald J., Townley S., Franco M., Stott I., Jones O., Salguero-Gomez R., Buckley Y., Knight T., Silk M., Sargent F., Rolph S., Wilson P. and Hodgson D. Demographic amplification is a predictor of invasiveness among plants. Nature Communications, 10, 5602.
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2018:
17. Rozins C.*, Silk M.J.*, Croft D., Delahay R., Hodgson D., McDonald R., Weber N. and Boots M. 2018. Social structure contains epidemics and regulates individual roles in disease transmission in a group‐living mammal. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 12044-12055 (*authors contributed equally)
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16. Goodwin C., Suggitt A., Bennie J., Silk M.J., Duffy J., Al-Fulaij N., Bailey S., Hodgson D. and McDonald R. 2018. Climate, landscape and habitat determinants of hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius population status and the importance of woodland management. Mammal Review, 48, 209-223.
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15. Silk M.J., Finn K.R., Porter M.A. and Pinter-Wollman N. 2018. Can multilayer networks advance animal behaviour research? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 376-378.
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14. Silk M.J.*, Crowley S.L.*, Woodhead A.J. & Nuno A. 2018. Considering connections between Hollywood and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 32, 597-606. (*authors contributed equally)
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13. Silk M.J., Weber N.L., Steward L.C., Hodgson D.J., Boots M., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J. and McDonald R.A. 2018. Contact networks structured by sex underpin sex-specific epidemiology of tuberculosis infection. Ecology Letters, 21, 309-318.
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12. Silk M.J., Drewe J.A., Delahay R.J., Weber N., Steward L.C., Wilson-Aggarwal J., Boots M., Hodgson D.J., Croft D.P. and McDonald R.A. 2018. Quantifying direct and indirect contacts for the potential transmission of infection between species using a multilayer contact network. Behaviour, 731-757.
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11. McDonald J.L.*, Robertson A.* & Silk M.J.* 2018. Wildlife disease ecology from the individual to the population: insights from a long‐term study of a naturally‐infected European badger population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87,101-112. (*all authors contributed equally)
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10. Silk M.J. 2018. The next steps in the study of missing individuals in networks: a comment on Smith et al. (2017): Social Networks, 52, 37-41.
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2017:
9. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Hodgson D.J. Boots M. & McDonald R.A. 2017. The application of statistical network models in disease research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 1026-1041.
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8. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Delahay R.J., Hodgson D.J., Boots M., Weber N. & McDonald R.A. 2017. Using social network measures in wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology and management. BioScience, 67, 245-257.
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7. Silk M.J., & Fisher D.N. 2017. Understanding animal social structure: exponential random graph models in animal behaviour research. Animal Behaviour, 132, 137-146.
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6. Silk M.J., Weber N., Steward L.C., Delahay R.J., Croft D.P., Hodgson D.J., Boots M. & McDonald R.A. 2017. Seasonal variation in daily patterns of social contacts in the European badger Meles meles. Ecology and Evolution, 7.
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5. Fisher D.N., Ilany A., Silk M.J. & Tregenza T. 2017. Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86, 202-212.
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4. Fisher D.N., Silk M.J. and Franks D.W. 2017. Is a positive degree correlation typical for a social network? "Trends in Social Network Analysis: Information Propagation, User Behavior Modelling, Forecasting, and Vulnerability Assessment" Springer.
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2015:
3. Silk M.J., Jackson A.L., Croft D.P., Colhoun K. & Bearhop S. 2015. The consequences of unidentifiable individuals for the analysis of an animal social network. Animal Behaviour, 104, 1-11.
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2014:
2. Silk M.J., Croft D.P., Tregenza T. and Bearhop S. 2014. The importance of fission-fusion social group dynamics in birds. Ibis, 156, 701-715.
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2010:
1. Couvillon M.J., Barton S.N., Cohen J.A., Fabricius O.K., Kärcher M.H., Cooper L.S., Silk M.J., Helanterä H. and Ratnieks F.L.W. 2010. Alarm pheromones do not mediate rapid shifts in honey bee guard acceptance threshold. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36, 1306-1308.
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Current preprints
De Moor D., Hart J.D.A, Franks D.W., Brent L.J.N.*, Silk, M.J.* and Brask J.* Layers of latency in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses. (*joint last authors)
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Nadler L.E., Jolles J.W., Binning S.A., De Bonville J., Domenici P, Killen S.S. and Silk M.J. Parasitism and the tradeoffs of social grouping: The role of parasite transmission mode.
[preprint]
Wilson-Aggarwal J., Goodwin C., Lechenne M., Swan G., Sidouin M., Silk M., Moundai T., Ozella L., Tizzoni M., Cattuto C. and McDonald R. Spatial-temporal dynamics of contact among free-ranging domestic dogs Canis familiaris in rural Africa.
[preprint]
Mourier J. Soria M., Silk M., Demichelis A., Dagorn L. and Hattab T. Both environmental conditions and intra-and interspecific interactions influence the movements of a marine predator.
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Fefferman N.H., Silk M.J., Pasquale D.K. and Moody J. Homophily in risk and behavior complicate understanding the COVID-19 epidemic curve and estimates of the impact of novel strains.
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Evans J.C., Liechti J.I., Silk M.J., Bonhoeffer S, and König B. Quantifying the influence of space on social group structure.
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