Nicholas D. Higgs

1.3k total citations
23 papers, 708 citations indexed

About

Nicholas D. Higgs is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas D. Higgs has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 708 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Oceanography and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nicholas D. Higgs's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (11 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (7 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 papers). Nicholas D. Higgs is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (11 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (7 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 papers). Nicholas D. Higgs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Nicholas D. Higgs's co-authors include Adrian G. Glover, Craig R. Smith, Crispin T. S. Little, Diva J. Amon, Tina Treude, Martin J. Attrill, Andrew R. Gates, Daniel O. B. Jones, Thomas G. Dahlgren and Silvia Danise and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas D. Higgs

21 papers receiving 689 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas D. Higgs United Kingdom 15 460 378 231 108 98 23 708
Steve Dudgeon United States 14 451 1.0× 571 1.5× 258 1.1× 64 0.6× 41 0.4× 24 795
Martha S. Nizinski United States 13 598 1.3× 403 1.1× 348 1.5× 124 1.1× 48 0.5× 29 786
Hanieh Saeedi Germany 17 521 1.1× 412 1.1× 264 1.1× 61 0.6× 35 0.4× 48 802
Guido Pastorino Argentina 14 388 0.8× 509 1.3× 416 1.8× 44 0.4× 114 1.2× 80 853
Juan‐Carlos Molinero Germany 13 459 1.0× 349 0.9× 547 2.4× 204 1.9× 99 1.0× 20 859
Patricia Martos Argentina 17 372 0.8× 445 1.2× 560 2.4× 132 1.2× 48 0.5× 31 857
Vesselina Mihneva Bulgaria 8 294 0.6× 253 0.7× 458 2.0× 117 1.1× 111 1.1× 15 660
Christine R. Whitcraft United States 13 507 1.1× 432 1.1× 182 0.8× 77 0.7× 37 0.4× 40 757
Virginie Raybaud France 16 512 1.1× 364 1.0× 402 1.7× 94 0.9× 18 0.2× 25 794
F. Sánchez France 9 239 0.5× 190 0.5× 231 1.0× 71 0.7× 52 0.5× 24 451

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas D. Higgs

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sherman, Krista D., Craig P. Dahlgren, Charlotte Dunn, Diane Claridge, & Nicholas D. Higgs. (2025). Implementation of Access and Benefit Sharing in The Bahamas: A Precautionary Tale. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations
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Shipley, Oliver N., Niel L. Bruce, Nicholas D. Higgs, et al.. (2024). A new species of deep-sea Booralana Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western North Atlantic. Zootaxa. 5399(3). 254–264. 1 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D.. (2021). Impact of the the COVID-19 pandemic on a queen conch ( Aliger gigas ) fishery in The Bahamas. PeerJ. 9. e11924–e11924. 6 indexed citations
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Sheehan, Emma V., et al.. (2019). A simple mooring modification reduces impacts on seagrass meadows. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 20062–20062. 18 indexed citations
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Smale, Dan A., Pippa J. Moore, Ana M. Queirós, Nicholas D. Higgs, & Michael T. Burrows. (2018). Appreciating interconnectivity between habitats is key to blue carbon management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16(2). 71–73. 60 indexed citations
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Layman, Craig A., Bernard F. Castillo, Jennifer K. Chapman, et al.. (2018). Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) in the temperate and tropical western Atlantic. Biological Invasions. 20(9). 2567–2597. 45 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Jason Newton, & Martin J. Attrill. (2016). Caribbean Spiny Lobster Fishery Is Underpinned by Trophic Subsidies from Chemosynthetic Primary Production. Current Biology. 26(24). 3393–3398. 38 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D.. (2015). Alternative lifestyle. The New Scientist. 226(3015). 41–43. 1 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D. & Martin J. Attrill. (2015). Biases in biodiversity: wide-ranging species are discovered first in the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2. 38 indexed citations
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Danise, Silvia & Nicholas D. Higgs. (2015). Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls. Biology Letters. 11(4). 20150072–20150072. 31 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Andrew R. Gates, & Daniel O. B. Jones. (2014). Fish Food in the Deep Sea: Revisiting the Role of Large Food-Falls. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96016–e96016. 78 indexed citations
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Smith, Craig R., Adrian G. Glover, Tina Treude, Nicholas D. Higgs, & Diva J. Amon. (2014). Whale-Fall Ecosystems: Recent Insights into Ecology, Paleoecology, and Evolution. Annual Review of Marine Science. 7(1). 571–596. 169 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Adrian G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren, et al.. (2014). The morphological diversity of Osedax worm borings (Annelida: Siboglinidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 94(7). 1429–1439. 19 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Adrian G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren, & Crispin T. S. Little. (2011). Bone-Boring Worms: Characterizing the Morphology, Rate, and Method of Bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae). Biological Bulletin. 221(3). 307–316. 42 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Crispin T. S. Little, Adrian G. Glover, et al.. (2011). Evidence ofOsedaxworm borings in Pliocene (∼3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean. Historical Biology. 1–9. 32 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Crispin T. S. Little, & Adrian G. Glover. (2010). Bones as biofuel: a review of whale bone composition with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1702). 9–17. 51 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., Adrian G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren, & Crispin T. S. Little. (2010). Using computed-tomography to document borings by Osedax mucofloris in whale bone. Station Biologique de Roscoff. 14 indexed citations
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Glover, Adrian G., Nicholas D. Higgs, P. M. Bagley, et al.. (2010). A live video observatory reveals temporal processes at a shelf-depth whale-fall. Station Biologique de Roscoff. 51(4). 375–381. 11 indexed citations
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Higgs, Nicholas D., et al.. (2009). Growth and reproduction in the Antarctic brooding bivalve Adacnarca nitens (Philobryidae) from the Ross Sea. Marine Biology. 156(5). 1073–1081. 17 indexed citations

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