Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul

SA Crabtree, DA White, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul
required substantial populations, occurred rapidly within a few thousand years and …

Mortality, surveillance and the tertiary “funnel effect” on the US-Mexico border: a geospatial modeling of the geography of deterrence

SN Chambers, GA Boyce, S Launius… - Journal of Borderlands …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Theories of migration deterrence have long posited that border enforcement infrastructure
pushes migration routes into more rugged and deadly terrain, driving an increase in migrant …

Bodily inertia and the weaponization of the Sonoran desert in US boundary enforcement: A GIS modeling of migration routes through Arizona's altar valley

GA Boyce, SN Chambers… - Journal on Migration and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article conducts geographic information system (GIS) modeling of unauthorized
migration routes in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona and finds an increase in the …

Spatial analysis based on cost functions

I Herzog - Archaeological spatial analysis, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Each model of past movement based on historical and archaeological evidence nowadays
relies implicitly or explicitly on a cost function estimating costs of movement in terms of time …

Conflict of energies: spatially modeling mule deer caloric expenditure in response to oil and gas development

S Chambers, ML Villarreal, O Duane, SM Munson… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Wildlife avoid human disturbances, including roads and development. Avoidance
and displacement of wildlife into less suitable habitat due to human development can affect …

Comparing distance, time, and metabolic energy cost functions for walking accessibility in infrastructure-poor regions

A Páez, Z Anjum, SE Dickson-Anderson… - Journal of transport …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accessibility is a widely used concept in transportation planning and research. However a
majority of the literature is concerned with accessibility in infrastructure-rich regions where it …

Least‐cost transportation networks predict spatial interaction of invasion vectors

DAR Drake, NE Mandrak - Ecological Applications, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐mediated dispersal among aquatic ecosystems often results in biotic transfer
between drainage basins. Such activities may circumvent biogeographic factors, with …

Developing a geospatial measure of change in core temperature for migrating persons in the Mexico-US border region

SN Chambers, B McMahan, CCWG Bongers - Spatial and Spatio-temporal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although heat exposure is the leading cause of mortality for undocumented immigrants
attempting to traverse the Mexico-US border, there has been little work in quantifying risk …

Cycling investment expedience: Energy expenditure based Cost-Path Analysis of national census bicycle commuting data

C Raffler, T Brezina, G Emberger - … research part A: policy and practice, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract “The bicycle share has risen to a level of 7%”–This newsletter headline is just one
example that highlights the growing interest of current Austrian transport-policy in fostering …

Dehydration rate and a novel model to aid search and relief for undocumented border crossers in the sonoran desert

SN Chambers, M Miranker - The Professional Geographer, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
There has been a proliferation of geographic literature exploring the fatal effects of
immigration policy since the early 2000s. Studies have used geographic information …