Publications

The following is a complete list of my publications with many of them having links to view PDF files of the manuscripts.

14. Bloch, C.P., C.L. Higgins, and M.R. Willig. [in prep]. Temporal dynamics in hierarchical partitioning of gastropod diversity during recovery from large-scale disturbances. Ecology.

13. Presley, S.J., C.L. Higgins, and M.R. Willig. [submitted]. A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure. Ecology Letters.

12. Presley, S.J., M.R. Willig, C.P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, C.L. Higgins, and B.T. Klingbeil. [submitted]. Integrating species abundances into analyses of metacommunity structure: terrestrial gastropods along a tropical elevational gradient. Ecology.

11. Higgins, C.L. [in press]. Patterns of functional and taxonomic organization of stream fishes: inferences based on α, β, and γ diversities. Ecography.

10. Higgins, C.L. 2009. Spatiotemporal variation in functional and taxonomic organization of stream-fish assemblages in central Texas. Aquatic Ecology - Online early. [pdf]

9. Presley, S.J., C.L. Higgins, C. Lopez-Gonzalez, and R.D. Stevens. 2009. Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: multiple gradients require analysis of multiple axes of variation. Oecologia 160: 781-793. [pdf]

8. Higgins, C.L. and R.E. Strauss. 2008. Modeling stream-fish assemblages with niche apportionment models: patterns, processes, and scale dependence. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137: 696-706. [pdf]

7. Willig, M.R., C.P. Bloch, N. Brokaw, C.L. Higgins, J. Thompson, and C.R. Zimmermann. 2007. Cross-scale responses of biodiversity to hurricane and anthropogenic disturbance in a tropical forest. Ecosystems 10: 824-838. [pdf]

6. Bloch, C.P., C.L. Higgins, and M.R. Willig. 2007. Effects of large-scale disturbance on community structure: temporal trends in nestedness. Oikos 116: 395-406. [pdf]

5. Higgins, C.L., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss. 2006. The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distributions. Oikos 114: 159-167. [pdf]

4. Chizinski, C.J., C.L. Higgins, C.E. Shavlik, and K.L. Pope. 2006. Multiple hypotheses testing of fish incidence patterns in an urbanized ecosystem. Aquatic Ecology 40: 97-109. [pdf]

3. Higgins, C.L. and G.R. Wilde. 2005. The role of salinity in structuring fish assemblages in a prairie stream system. Hydrobiologia 549: 197-203. [pdf]

2. Smith, C.D., C.L. Higgins, G.R. Wilde, and R.E. Strauss. 2005. Development of a morphological index of the nutritional status of juvenile largemouth bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134: 120-125. [pdf]

1. Higgins, C.L. and R.E. Strauss. 2004. Discrimination and classification of search paths produced by different search-tactic models. Behavioral Ecology 15: 248-254. [pdf]