Scientific Papers
9. Finger-Higgens, R., Duniway, M.C., Fick, S., Geiger, E.L., Hoover, D.L., Pfenningwerth, A.A., Van Scoyoc, M.W., Belnap, J. Biological soil crust community at a potential tipping point with long-term summer warming. In Press at the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
8. Snorek, J.L., Loos, J., Cox, M.E., Shata, T., Bowman, A., Kramer, J., Snodgrass, J., Iniquez, Finger-Higgens, R., Krivak-Tetley, F. The role of social networks in building collaborative watershed governance: a mixed methods case study for South Africa. In review at Ecology and Society.
7. Soininen, E., Barrio, I., [and 43 other authors including Finger-Higgens, R.] Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegettion: a systematic map. In press for Environmental Evidence.
6. Finger Higgens, R.A., DeSiervo, M.H, Ayres, M.P., Virginia, R.A. (2021) Increasing shrub damage by invertebrate herbivores in the warming and drying tundra of West Greenland. Oecologia, 195 (4), 995-1005.
5. Erbaugh, J., Callahan, C., Finger-Higgens, R., DeSiervo, M., Bolger, D., Cox, M., Howarth, R. (2021) Sociotechnical equilibrium and transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 49, 33-41.
4. Finger Higgens, R.A., Pries, C.H., Virginia, R.A. (2021) Trade-offs between wood and leaf production in Arctic shrubs along a temperature and moisture gradient in West Greenland. Ecosystems, 24(3), 652-666.
3. Lembrechts, J., Ashcroft, M., [and 167 other authors including Finger Higgens, R.] (2020) SoilTemp: call for data for a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26 (11), 6616-6629. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123
2. Finger Higgens, R., Chipman, J.W., Lutz, D.A., Culler, L.E., Virginia, R.A., & Ogden, L.A. (2019) Changing Lake Dynamics Indicate a Drier Arctic in Western Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124 (4), 870-883.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004879.
1. Finger, R., Turetsky, M.R., Kielland, K., Mack, M.C., Ruess, R.W., & Euskirchen, E.S. (2016). Effects of permafrost thaw on a boreal Alaskan lowland. Journal of Ecology. 104, 1542-1554. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12639
Datasets
Rebecca Finger Higgens. 2019. Lake dynamics in the tundra of Western Greenland from 1969-2017. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2J09W41K.
Rebecca Finger. 2013. Effects of permafrost thaw on nitrogen availability and plant-soil interactions in a boreal Alaskan lowland. http://www.lter.uaf.edu/data/data-catalog
Media Cover of my work
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-lakes-are-vanishing-by-the-hundreds/
https://www.nhpr.org/post/dartmouth-study-arctic-warming-shrinking-tundra-lakes#stream/0
Conference Presentations
Finger-Higgens, R., Duniway, M.C., Fick, S., Geiger, E.L., Hoover, D.L., Pfenningwerth, A.A., Van Scoyoc, M.W., Belnap, J. Declining biocrust lichen cover suggests warming tipping point has already been met in a protected grassland in Canyonlands National Park, UT. Oral presentation at Ecological Society of America, August 2021.
Finger Higgens, R.A., Chipman, J.W., Lutz, D.A., Culler, L.E., Virginia, R.A. A drier Arctic? changing lake dynamics in western Greenland. Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December, 2018.
Culler, L.E., Finger, R.A., Plane, E., Ayers, M., Virginia, R.A. (2015). Increases in Growing Season Length and Changes in Precipitation at Six Different Arctic and Subarctic Ecosystems from 1906-Present. Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2015.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. (2014) Permafrost thaw, biogeochemical cycling, and plant biology in the Alaska Taiga. Oral presentation at Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 28, 2014.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. Permafrost thaw, nitrogen availability, and plant-soil interaction in an interior Alaskan lowland. Oral presentation at the BGSA Midnight Sun Symposium, Fairbanks, AK, April, 2014.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. Permafrost thaw, nitrogen availability and plant nitrogen acquisition in an interior Alaskan lowland. Oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2013.
9. Finger-Higgens, R., Duniway, M.C., Fick, S., Geiger, E.L., Hoover, D.L., Pfenningwerth, A.A., Van Scoyoc, M.W., Belnap, J. Biological soil crust community at a potential tipping point with long-term summer warming. In Press at the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
8. Snorek, J.L., Loos, J., Cox, M.E., Shata, T., Bowman, A., Kramer, J., Snodgrass, J., Iniquez, Finger-Higgens, R., Krivak-Tetley, F. The role of social networks in building collaborative watershed governance: a mixed methods case study for South Africa. In review at Ecology and Society.
7. Soininen, E., Barrio, I., [and 43 other authors including Finger-Higgens, R.] Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegettion: a systematic map. In press for Environmental Evidence.
6. Finger Higgens, R.A., DeSiervo, M.H, Ayres, M.P., Virginia, R.A. (2021) Increasing shrub damage by invertebrate herbivores in the warming and drying tundra of West Greenland. Oecologia, 195 (4), 995-1005.
5. Erbaugh, J., Callahan, C., Finger-Higgens, R., DeSiervo, M., Bolger, D., Cox, M., Howarth, R. (2021) Sociotechnical equilibrium and transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 49, 33-41.
4. Finger Higgens, R.A., Pries, C.H., Virginia, R.A. (2021) Trade-offs between wood and leaf production in Arctic shrubs along a temperature and moisture gradient in West Greenland. Ecosystems, 24(3), 652-666.
3. Lembrechts, J., Ashcroft, M., [and 167 other authors including Finger Higgens, R.] (2020) SoilTemp: call for data for a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26 (11), 6616-6629. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123
2. Finger Higgens, R., Chipman, J.W., Lutz, D.A., Culler, L.E., Virginia, R.A., & Ogden, L.A. (2019) Changing Lake Dynamics Indicate a Drier Arctic in Western Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124 (4), 870-883.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004879.
1. Finger, R., Turetsky, M.R., Kielland, K., Mack, M.C., Ruess, R.W., & Euskirchen, E.S. (2016). Effects of permafrost thaw on a boreal Alaskan lowland. Journal of Ecology. 104, 1542-1554. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12639
Datasets
Rebecca Finger Higgens. 2019. Lake dynamics in the tundra of Western Greenland from 1969-2017. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2J09W41K.
Rebecca Finger. 2013. Effects of permafrost thaw on nitrogen availability and plant-soil interactions in a boreal Alaskan lowland. http://www.lter.uaf.edu/data/data-catalog
Media Cover of my work
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-lakes-are-vanishing-by-the-hundreds/
https://www.nhpr.org/post/dartmouth-study-arctic-warming-shrinking-tundra-lakes#stream/0
Conference Presentations
Finger-Higgens, R., Duniway, M.C., Fick, S., Geiger, E.L., Hoover, D.L., Pfenningwerth, A.A., Van Scoyoc, M.W., Belnap, J. Declining biocrust lichen cover suggests warming tipping point has already been met in a protected grassland in Canyonlands National Park, UT. Oral presentation at Ecological Society of America, August 2021.
Finger Higgens, R.A., Chipman, J.W., Lutz, D.A., Culler, L.E., Virginia, R.A. A drier Arctic? changing lake dynamics in western Greenland. Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December, 2018.
Culler, L.E., Finger, R.A., Plane, E., Ayers, M., Virginia, R.A. (2015). Increases in Growing Season Length and Changes in Precipitation at Six Different Arctic and Subarctic Ecosystems from 1906-Present. Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2015.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. (2014) Permafrost thaw, biogeochemical cycling, and plant biology in the Alaska Taiga. Oral presentation at Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 28, 2014.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. Permafrost thaw, nitrogen availability, and plant-soil interaction in an interior Alaskan lowland. Oral presentation at the BGSA Midnight Sun Symposium, Fairbanks, AK, April, 2014.
Finger, R., Euskirchen, S.E., & Turetsky, M.R. Permafrost thaw, nitrogen availability and plant nitrogen acquisition in an interior Alaskan lowland. Oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2013.