| Loss of Arctic sea ice causing punctuated change in sightings of killer whales (Orcinus orca) over the past century JW Higdon, SH Ferguson Ecological Applications 19 (5), 1365-1375, 2009 | 240 | 2009 |
| Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset JW Higdon, ORP Bininda-Emonds, RMD Beck, SH Ferguson BMC evolutionary biology 7, 1-19, 2007 | 217 | 2007 |
| Sustained disruption of narwhal habitat use and behavior in the presence of Arctic killer whales GA Breed, CJD Matthews, M Marcoux, JW Higdon, B LeBlanc, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (10), 2628-2633, 2017 | 129 | 2017 |
| Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Canadian Arctic: Distribution, prey items, group sizes, and seasonality JW Higdon, DDW Hauser, SH Ferguson Marine Mammal Science 28 (2), E93-E109, 2012 | 128 | 2012 |
| The rise of killer whales as a major Arctic predator SH Ferguson, JW Higdon, EG Chmelnitsky A little less Arctic: top predators in the world’s largest northern inland …, 2010 | 107 | 2010 |
| Prey items and predation behavior of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada based on Inuit hunter interviews SH Ferguson, JW Higdon, KH Westdal Aquatic Biosystems 8, 1-16, 2012 | 81 | 2012 |
| How seals divide up the world: environment, life history, and conservation SH Ferguson, JW Higdon Oecologia 150, 318-329, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| Killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation in a multi-prey system SH Ferguson, MCS Kingsley, JW Higdon Population Ecology 54, 31-41, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Dietary habits of polar bears in Foxe Basin, Canada: possible evidence of a trophic regime shift mediated by a new top predator MP Galicia, GW Thiemann, MG Dyck, SH Ferguson, JW Higdon Ecology and Evolution 6 (16), 6005-6018, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| Occurrence of killer whale Orcinus orca rake marks on Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus NR Reinhart, SH Ferguson, WR Koski, JW Higdon, B LeBlanc, O Tervo, ... Polar Biology 36, 1133-1146, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Evidence of molting and the function of “rock-nosing” behavior in bowhead whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic SME Fortune, WR Koski, JW Higdon, AW Trites, MF Baumgartner, ... PLoS One 12 (11), e0186156, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Distribution and abundance of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada—an Inuit knowledge survey JW Higdon, KH Westdal, SH Ferguson Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94 (6 …, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Commercial and subsistence harvests of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in eastern Canada and West Greenland JW Higdon J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 11 (2), 185-216, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| Beluga whale summer habitat associations in the Nelson River estuary, western Hudson Bay, Canada AJ Smith, JW Higdon, P Richard, J Orr, W Bernhardt, SH Ferguson PLoS One 12 (8), e0181045, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Prey assemblage isotopic variability as a tool for assessing diet and the spatial distribution of bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus foraging in the Canadian eastern Arctic C Pomerleau, V Lesage, SH Ferguson, G Winkler, SD Petersen, ... Marine Ecology Progress Series 469, 161-174, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Past, Present, and Future for Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Northwest Hudson Bay JW Higdon, SH Ferguson A little less Arctic: top predators in the world’s largest northern inland …, 2010 | 38 | 2010 |
| A catch history for Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the eastern Canadian Arctic DB Stewart, JW Higdon, RR Reeves, REA Stewart NAMMCO Scientific Publications 9, 219-313, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Dentine deposition rates in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas): an analysis of the evidence JW Higdon, S Ferguson Aquatic Mammals 33 (2), 241-245, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| Estimating the economic value of narwhal and beluga hunts in Hudson Bay, Nunavut C Hoover, M Bailey, J Higdon, SH Ferguson, R Sumaila Arctic, 1-16, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Killer whale (Orcinus orca) photo-identification in the eastern Canadian Arctic BG Young, JW Higdon, SH Ferguson Polar Research 30 (1), 7203, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
