All Stories

  1. Implementation of Access and Benefit Sharing in The Bahamas: A Precautionary Tale

    Article • Conservation, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  2. A new species of deep-sea Booralana Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western North Atlantic

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2024, Magnolia Press

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  3. Depth and substrate type influence community structure and diversity of wood and whale-bone habitats on the deep NE Pacific margin

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, April 2022, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  4. Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2021, Elsevier

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  5. Application of scientific criteria for identifying hydrothermal ecosystems in need of protection

    Article • Marine Policy, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  6. Impact of the the COVID-19 pandemic on a queen conch (Aliger gigas) fishery in The Bahamas

    Article • PeerJ, August 2021, PeerJ

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  7. A decade to study deep-sea life

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs, David Bailey, Louise Allcock

  8. A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, November 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs, Louise Allcock

  9. A simple mooring modification reduces impacts on seagrass meadows

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  10. Small island states excluded from climate research when they need it most

    Article • Nature, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  11. Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) in the temperate and tropical western Atlantic

    Article • Biological Invasions, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  12. Appreciating interconnectivity between habitats is key to blue carbon management

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  13. Data are inadequate to test whale falls as chemosynthetic stepping-stones using network analysis: faunal overlaps do support a stepping-stone role

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  14. Caribbean Spiny Lobster Fishery Is Underpinned by Trophic Subsidies from Chemosynthetic Primary Production

    Article • Current Biology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  15. Do we know how many species are there in the oceans?

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, August 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  16. Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Silvia Danise, Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  17. Alternative lifestyle

    Article • The New Scientist, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  18. Whale-Fall Ecosystems: Recent Insights

    Article • Annual Review of Marine Science, January 2015, Annual Reviews

    Professor Craig R Smith, Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  19. The morphological diversity of Osedax worm borings (Annelida: Siboglinidae)

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  20. Fish Food in the Deep Sea: Revisiting the Role of Large Food-Falls

    Article • PLOS One, May 2014, PLOS

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  21. A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south-west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgiiLiljeborg, 1867)

    Article • Historical Biology, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  22. Bone-Boring Worms: Characterizing the Morphology, Rate, and Method of Bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae)

    Article • Biological Bulletin, December 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  23. Evidence ofOsedaxworm borings in Pliocene (∼3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean

    Article • Historical Biology, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  24. Correction for Higgs et al., Bones as biofuel: a review of whale bone composition with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  25. Bones as biofuel: a review of whale bone composition with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs

  26. Growth and reproduction in the Antarctic brooding bivalve Adacnarca nitens (Philobryidae) from the Ross Sea

    Article • Marine Biology, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas D Higgs