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Christopher L. Higgins
Researcher at Tarleton State University
Publications - 26
Citations - 1094
Christopher L. Higgins is an academic researcher from Tarleton State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metacommunity & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 26 publications receiving 964 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher L. Higgins include University of Connecticut & Bridgewater State University.
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A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure
TL;DR: This work distinguishes three distinct forms of species loss in nested structures, which should improve identifi cation of structuring mechanisms for nested patterns and demonstrates how combinations of structures at smaller spatial extents may aggregate to form Clementsian structure at larger extents.
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Effects of large-scale disturbance on metacommunity structure of terrestrial gastropods: temporal trends in nestedness
TL;DR: In this paper, a 13-year data set encompassing the effects of two largescale natural disturbances (hurricanes Hugo and Georges) on terrestrial gastropod assemblages was used to test the hypothesis that changes in species composition resulting from disturbance alter the degree of nestedness exhibited over time at two spatial scales.
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Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: multiple gradients require analysis of multiple ordination axes.
TL;DR: An extant method to better investigate metacommunity structure for systems that respond to multiple environmental gradients is expanded and analysis of EMS along defined gradients or based on alternative ordination techniques may complement insights based on reciprocal averaging.
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Tropical metacommunities along elevational gradients: effects of forest type and other environmental factors
Michael R. Willig,Steven J. Presley,Christopher P. Bloch,Ivan Castro-Arellano,Laura M. Cisneros,Christopher L. Higgins,Brian T. Klingbeil +6 more
TL;DR: This article used a metacommunity framework to integrate species-specifi c responses to environmental gradients as an approach to detect emergent patterns at the mesoscale in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico.
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The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distributions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of species-abundance distributions (uniform, dominance-decay, random-assortment, and dominance-preemption), island-size distributions, and total abundances on the degree of nestedness and its significance.