Peer-Reviewed Papers & Book Chapters

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Higgs ND, Newton J & Attrill MA  (2016) Caribbean spiny lobster fishery is underpinned by trophic subsidies from chemosynthetic primary production. Current Biology, 26:3393-3398. [PDF]

Higgs ND & Attrill MA (2015) Biases in biodiversity: wide-ranging species are discovered first in the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 2:61. [PDF]
Danise S & Higgs ND (2015) Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls. Biology Letters 11: 20150072. [PDF] Featured on Science news website and in Nature Research Highlights, Nature 520:411.

​Pokines JT & Higgs ND (2015) Macroscopic taphonomic alterations to human bone recovered from marine environments. Journal of Forensic Identification 65:953-984. [PDF]

Smith CR, Glover AG, Treude T, Higgs ND and Amon DJ (2015) Whale-Fall Ecosystems: Recent Insights into Ecology, Paleoecology and Evolution. Annual Review of Marine Science 7:10.1-10.26. [PDF]†

Higgs ND, Glover AG, Dahlgren TG, Smith CR, Fujiwara Y, Pradillon F, Johnson SB, Vrijenhoek RC and Little CTS (2014) The morphological diversity of Osedax worm borings (Annelidia: Siboglinidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 94:1429-1439. [PDF]
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Osedax worms living on a whale bone
Manta Ray
Scavengers on a Manta ray carcass
Higgs ND, Gates AR, Jones DOB (2014) Fish Food in the Deep Sea: Revisiting the Role of Large Food-Falls. PLOS ONE 9(5): e96016. [PDF]

Higgs ND and Pokines JT (2013) Marine Environmental Alterations to Bone. In: Manual of Forensic Taphonomy (editors: Pokines JT & Symes SA). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. pp 143-180.
Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R and Dahlgren TG (2013) 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 swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867). Historical Biology [Free Access]*

Higgs N D, Little C T S, Glover A G, Dahlgren T G, Smith C R and Dominici S (2012) Evidence of Osedax worm borings in Pliocene (~3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean. Historical Biology 24:269-277.
Featured in Nature Research Highlights, Nature 479:153
Fossil bone
Fossil whale bone partly 'eaten' by Osedax worms
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CT scan of Osedax borings
Higgs N D, Little C T S and Glover A G (2011) Bones as biofuel: the composition of whale bones with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:9-17. [PDF]

Higgs N D, Glover A G, Dahlgren T G and Little C T S (2011) Bone-Boring Worms: Characterizing the Morphology, Rate, and Method of Bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae). Biological Bulletin 221:307-316. [PDF]

Observatory
Underwater Observatory
Higgs N D, Glover A G, Dahlgren T G and Little C T S (2010) Using computed-tomography to document borings by Osedax mucofloris in whale bone. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 51:401-405. 

Glover A G, Higgs N D, Bagley P M, Carlsson R, Davies A J, Kemp K M, Last K J, Norling K, Rosenberg R, Wallin K A, Källström B and Dahlgren T (2010) A live video observatory reveals temporal processes at a shelf-depth whale-fall. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 51:375-381. 

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Adacnarca nitens
Higgs N D, Reed A J, Hooke R A, Honey D J, Heilmayer O and Thatje S (2009) Growth and reproduction in the Antarctic brooding bivalve Adacnarca nitens (Philobryidae) from the Ross Sea. Marine Biology 156:1073-1081.
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