Christopher L. Higgins

1.3k total citations
27 papers, 990 citations indexed

About

Christopher L. Higgins is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher L. Higgins has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 990 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 16 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Christopher L. Higgins's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). Christopher L. Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). Christopher L. Higgins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Switzerland. Christopher L. Higgins's co-authors include Michael R. Willig, Steven J. Presley, Christopher P. Bloch, Richard E. Strauss, Richard D. Stevens, Celia López‐González, Noé U. de la Sancha, Brian T. Klingbeil, Gene R. Wilde and Iván Castro-Arellano and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, Oikos and Journal of Biogeography.

In The Last Decade

Christopher L. Higgins

27 papers receiving 951 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher L. Higgins United States 17 575 515 332 260 105 27 990
José C. Carvalho Portugal 13 488 0.8× 580 1.1× 383 1.2× 370 1.4× 152 1.4× 19 1.1k
Katherine M. Thibault United States 16 661 1.1× 443 0.9× 329 1.0× 380 1.5× 232 2.2× 26 1.0k
Jessica Gurevitch United States 3 670 1.2× 568 1.1× 300 0.9× 196 0.8× 256 2.4× 3 1.2k
Stacie A. Hathaway United States 18 851 1.5× 376 0.7× 194 0.6× 339 1.3× 298 2.8× 43 1.2k
Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva New Zealand 11 300 0.5× 316 0.6× 373 1.1× 213 0.8× 98 0.9× 18 775
Clara Gaspar Portugal 14 583 1.0× 693 1.3× 617 1.9× 555 2.1× 203 1.9× 24 1.4k
Jennifer Mattei United States 6 334 0.6× 309 0.6× 236 0.7× 95 0.4× 135 1.3× 15 733
Buntarou Kusumoto Japan 21 420 0.7× 607 1.2× 485 1.5× 424 1.6× 227 2.2× 56 1.2k
Iván Jiménez United States 13 401 0.7× 640 1.2× 459 1.4× 456 1.8× 150 1.4× 19 1.0k
Rickey D. Cothran United States 18 449 0.8× 260 0.5× 380 1.1× 97 0.4× 279 2.7× 39 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher L. Higgins

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sancha, Noé U. de la, Renan Maestri, Ricardo S. Bovendorp, & Christopher L. Higgins. (2020). Disentangling drivers of small mammal diversity in a highly fragmented forest system. Biotropica. 52(1). 182–195. 18 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L., et al.. (2017). Arthropod diversity and assemblage structure response to deforestation and desertification in the Sahel of western Senegal. Global Ecology and Conservation. 11. 165–176. 20 indexed citations
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Presley, Steven J., Laura M. Cisneros, Christopher L. Higgins, et al.. (2017). Phylogenetic and functional underdispersion in Neotropical phyllostomid bat communities. Biotropica. 50(1). 135–145. 21 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L., et al.. (2016). Taxonomic and functional organization in metacommunity structure of stream-fish assemblages among and within river basins in Texas. Aquatic Ecology. 50(2). 247–259. 8 indexed citations
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Sancha, Noé U. de la, Christopher L. Higgins, Steven J. Presley, & Richard E. Strauss. (2014). Metacommunity structure in a highly fragmented forest: has deforestation in the Atlantic Forest altered historic biogeographic patterns?. Diversity and Distributions. 20(9). 1058–1070. 52 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L., et al.. (2013). The influence of discharge, photoperiod, and temperature on the reproductive ecology of cyprinids in the Paluxy River, Texas. Aquatic Ecology. 47(1). 67–74. 11 indexed citations
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Erős, Tibor, Péter Sály, Péter Takács, et al.. (2013). Quantifying temporal variability in the metacommunity structure of stream fishes: the influence of non-native species and environmental drivers. Hydrobiologia. 722(1). 31–43. 43 indexed citations
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Willig, Michael R., Steven J. Presley, Christopher P. Bloch, et al.. (2011). Tropical metacommunities along elevational gradients: effects of forest type and other environmental factors. Oikos. 120(10). 1497–1508. 53 indexed citations
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Presley, Steven J., Christopher L. Higgins, & Michael R. Willig. (2010). A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure. Oikos. 119(6). 908–917. 244 indexed citations
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Presley, Steven J., Michael R. Willig, Christopher P. Bloch, et al.. (2010). A Complex Metacommunity Structure for Gastropods Along an Elevational Gradient. Biotropica. 43(4). 480–488. 31 indexed citations
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Presley, Steven J., Christopher L. Higgins, Celia López‐González, & Richard D. Stevens. (2009). Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: multiple gradients require analysis of multiple ordination axes. Oecologia. 160(4). 781–793. 75 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L. & Richard E. Strauss. (2008). Modeling Stream Fish Assemblages with Niche Apportionment Models: Patterns, Processes, and Scale Dependence. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137(3). 696–706. 20 indexed citations
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Bloch, Christopher P., Christopher L. Higgins, & Michael R. Willig. (2007). Effects of large‐scale disturbance on metacommunity structure of terrestrial gastropods: temporal trends in nestedness. Oikos. 116(3). 395–406. 79 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L., Michael R. Willig, & Richard E. Strauss. (2006). The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distributions. Oikos. 114(1). 159–167. 58 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L. & Gene R. Wilde. (2005). The Role of Salinity in Structuring Fish Assemblages in a Prairie Stream System. Hydrobiologia. 549(1). 197–203. 27 indexed citations
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Chizinski, Christopher J., et al.. (2005). Multiple hypotheses testing of fish incidence patterns in an urbanized ecosystem. Aquatic Ecology. 40(1). 97–109. 4 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L., et al.. (2005). Development of a Morphological Index of the Nutritional Status of Juvenile Largemouth Bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 134(1). 120–125. 7 indexed citations
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Higgins, Christopher L.. (2004). Discrimination and classification of foraging paths produced by search-tactic models. Behavioral Ecology. 15(2). 248–254. 27 indexed citations

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