Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R

SoilGrids1km — Global Soil Information Based on Automated Mapping

Hengl, T., de Jesus, J. M., MacMillan, R. A., Batjes, N. H., Heuvelink, G. B. M., Ribeiro, E., Samuel-Rosa, A., Kempen, B., Leenaars, J. G. B., Walsh, M. G., et al. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105992 · Cited by 1,268

Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis

Erni-Cassola, G., Zadjelovic, V., Gibson, M. I., & Christie-Oleza, J. A. (2019) · Journal of Hazardous Materials · doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.02.067 · Cited by 874

The challenge of biased evidence in conservation

Christie, A. P., Amano, T., Martin, P. A., Petrovan, S. O., Shackelford, G. E., Simmons, B. I., Smith, R. K., Williams, D. R., Wordley, C. F. R., & Sutherland, W. J. (2021) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/cobi.13577 · Cited by 202

Spatial Inequities in COVID-19 Testing, Positivity, Confirmed Cases, and Mortality in 3 U.S. Cities: An Ecological Study

Bilal, U., Tabb, L. P., Barber, S., & Diez Roux, A. V. (2021) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/m20-3936 · Cited by 183

Empty forest or empty rivers? A century of commercial hunting in Amazonia

Antunes, A. P., Fewster, R. M., Venticinque, E. M., Peres, C. A., Levi, T., Rohe, F., & Shepard, G. H. (2016) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600936 · Cited by 163

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data

Peak, C. M., Wesolowski, A., zu Erbach-Schoenberg, E., Tatem, A. J., Wetter, E., Lu, X., Power, D., Weidman-Grunewald, E., Ramos, S., Moritz, S., et al. (2018) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyy095 · Cited by 141

Global population genetic structure and demographic trajectories of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens

Kaya, C., Generalovic, T. N., Ståhls, G., Hauser, M., Samayoa, A. C., Nunes-Silva, C. G., Roxburgh, H., Wohlfahrt, J., Ewusie, E. A., Kenis, M., et al. (2021) · BMC Biology · doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01029-w · Cited by 149

Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes and the role of life history and climate

Liedtke, H. C., Gower, D. J., Wilkinson, M., & Gomez-Mestre, I. (2018) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0674-4 · Cited by 130

Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665

Cummins, N., Kelly, M., & Ó Gráda, C. (2016) · The Economic History Review · doi:10.1111/ehr.12098 · Cited by 139

Not minding the gap: Does ride-hailing serve transit deserts?

Barajas, J., & Brown, A. (2020) · doi:10.31235/osf.io/y4jwk · Cited by 81

Geostatistical modelling of malaria indicator survey data to assess the effects of interventions on the geographical distribution of malaria prevalence in children less than 5 years in Uganda

Ssempiira, J., Nambuusi, B., Kissa, J., Agaba, B., Makumbi, F., Kasasa, S., & Vounatsou, P. (2017) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174948 · Cited by 70

Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers

Wood, B. M., Harris, J. A., Raichlen, D. A., Pontzer, H., Sayre, K., Sancilio, A., Berbesque, C., Crittenden, A. N., Mabulla, A., McElreath, R., et al. (2021) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01002-7 · Cited by 57

Phenotypic covariance across the entire spectrum of relatedness for 86 billion pairs of individuals

Kemper, K. E., Yengo, L., Zheng, Z., Abdellaoui, A., Keller, M. C., Goddard, M. E., Wray, N. R., Yang, J., & Visscher, P. M. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21283-4 · Cited by 43

Metadata and provenance for spatial analysis: the case of spatial weights

Anselin, L., Rey, S. J., & Li, W. (2014) · International Journal of Geographical Information Science · doi:10.1080/13658816.2014.917313 · Cited by 42

movecost: an R package for calculating accumulated slope-dependent anisotropic cost-surfaces and least-cost paths

Alberti, G. (2019) · SoftwareX · doi:10.1016/j.softx.2019.100331 · Cited by 40

Oceanographic determinants of ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) bycatch patterns in the California large mesh drift gillnet fishery

Hahlbeck, N., Scales, K. L., Dewar, H., Maxwell, S. M., Bograd, S. J., & Hazen, E. L. (2017) · Fisheries Research · doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2017.03.011 · Cited by 34

Spatial autocorrelation in uptake of antenatal care and relationship to individual, household and village-level factors: results from a community-based survey of pregnant women in six districts in western Kenya

Prudhomme O’Meara, W., Platt, A., Naanyu, V., Cole, D., & Ndege, S. (2013) · International Journal of Health Geographics · doi:10.1186/1476-072x-12-55 · Cited by 21

Parallel gene expansions drive rapid dietary adaptation in herbivorous woodrats

Klure, D. M., Greenhalgh, R., Orr, T. J., Shapiro, M. D., & Dearing, M. D. (2025) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.adp7978 · Cited by 17

Point pattern analysis as tool for digital geoarchaeology: a case study of megalithic graves in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Knitter, D., & Nakoinz, O. (2018) · Natural Science in Archaeology · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25316-9_4 · Cited by 15

Regional biogeography versus intra-annual dynamics of the root and soil microbiome

Bell-Dereske, L. P., Benucci, G. M. N., da Costa, P. B., Bonito, G., Friesen, M. L., Tiemann, L. K., & Evans, S. E. (2023) · Environmental Microbiome · doi:10.1186/s40793-023-00504-x · Cited by 14

Is salamander arboreality limited by broad-scale climatic conditions?

Baken, E. K., Mellenthin, L. E., & Adams, D. C. (2021) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0255393 · Cited by 11

Pelagic ecoregions: Operationalizing an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the Atlantic Ocean

Todorović, S., Juan-Jordá, M. J., Arrizabalaga, H., & Murua, H. (2019) · Marine Policy · doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103700 · Cited by 9

Reservoir ecosystems support large pools of fish biomass

Parisek, C. A., De Castro, F. A., Colby, J. D., Leidy, G. R., Sadro, S., & Rypel, A. L. (2024) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-024-59730-z · Cited by 9

Combining historical maps, travel itineraries and least-cost path modelling to reconstruct pre-modern travel routes and locations in northern tigray (ethiopia)

Hardt, J., Nir, N., & Schütt, B. (2023) · The Cartographic Journal · doi:10.1080/00087041.2022.2150363 · Cited by 2

Temporal dynamics outweigh spatial gradients in shaping water quality across a regulated Afrotropical reservoir cascade

Ibrahim, A., Sadiku, S. O. E., Robertson-Andersson, D. V., & Okpeku, M. (2026) · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10661-026-15681-8