Rebecca Finger Higgens

United States Geological Survey — United States

Health Professions · Health Sciences

10h-index854citations37works1.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Indigenous Studies and Ecology(14), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology(13), Climate change and permafrost(12), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies(12), Cryospheric studies and observations(8)

Publications36 total

Flexible Phenology of a <scp>C<sub>4</sub></scp> Grass Linked to Resiliency to Seasonal and Multiyear Drought Events in the American Southwest
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Biocrust Mosses and Cyanobacteria Exhibit Distinct Carbon Uptake Responses to Variations in Precipitation Amount and Frequency
Ecology Letters·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Biocrust Mosses and Cyanobacteria Exhibit Distinct Carbon Uptake Responses to Variations in Precipitation Amount and Frequency"
2025
Author response for "Biocrust Mosses and Cyanobacteria Exhibit Distinct Carbon Uptake Responses to Variations in Precipitation Amount and Frequency"
2025
Author response for "Biocrust Mosses and Cyanobacteria Exhibit Distinct Carbon Uptake Responses to Variations in Precipitation Amount and Frequency"
2025
Seasonal drought treatments impact plant and microbial uptake of nitrogen in a mixed shrub grassland on the Colorado Plateau
Ecology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Ecosystem resilience to invasion and drought: Insights after 24 years in a rare never‐grazed grassland
Global Change Biology·2023· 10 cited
Droughting a megadrought: Ecological consequences of a decade of experimental drought atop aridification on the Colorado Plateau
Global Change Biology·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic mosquito abundance
Ecological Entomology·2022· 2 cited
Diminishing Arctic lakes
Nature Climate Change·2022· 4 cited
Correction to: Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Environmental Evidence·2022Open Access
Decline in biological soil crust N-fixing lichens linked to increasing summertime temperatures
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 45 citedOpen Access
Additional file 6 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
Additional file 4 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
IMPACTS OF EXPERIMENTAL AND OBSERVED DROUGHT ON UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN DRYLANDS
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2022
Additional file 3 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
Additional file 2 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
Additional file 1 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance
Ecology and Society·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Additional file 5 of Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map
Figshare·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robert G. Björk(15), James D. M. Speed(15), Eeva M. Soininen(14), Isabel C. Barrio(14), Ragnhild Bjørkås(14), Katrín Björnsdóttir(14), Dorothée Ehrich(14), Kelly A. Hopping(14), Elina Kaarlejärvi(14), Anders Lorentzen Kolstad(14), Svetlana Abdulmanova(14), C. Guillermo Bueno(14), Isabell Eischeid(14), Jennifer S. Forbey(14), Olivier Gilg(14), Michael den Herder(14), Hildur Søndergaard Holm(14), Bernice C. Hwang(14), Jane Uhd Jepsen(14), Stefaniya Kamenova(14)