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Least-cost Pathways

Least-Cost Pathways is a spatial modeling method that identifies optimal movement routes across a landscape by minimizing cumulative traversal costs, as determined by a resistance surface, to facilitate ecological connectivity.

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Least-cost Paths

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Corridors for Conservation: Integrating Pattern and Process

Cheryl‐Lesley B. Chetkiewicz, Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Mark S. Boyce · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2006 · 423 citations

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ResistanceGA: An R package for the optimization of resistance surfaces using genetic algorithms

William E. Peterman · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2018 · 340 citations · Full text

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Least-cost Path in GIS Using an Accumulated Cost Surface and Slopelines

David H. Douglas · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization · 1994 · 240 citations

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On applying viewshed analysis for determining least-cost paths on Digital Elevation Models

JAY LEE DAN STUCKY · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems · 1998 · 182 citations

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Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

Shimona Kealy, Julien Louys, Sue O’Connor · Journal of Human Evolution · 2018 · 164 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. LM
    Luc Madec

    Université de Rennes, France

    2 publications · 124 citations

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  2. IH
    Irmela Herzog

    Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale, Germany

    2 publications · 120 citations

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  3. GF
    Gustavo F. Lucero

    Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

    2 publications · 34 citations

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  4. AE
    Aude Ernoult

    Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution, France

    2 publications · 124 citations

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  5. AF
    Andries F. Hof

    Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands

    2 publications · 65 citations

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Institutions

173

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    240 citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    440 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    335 citations

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    89 citations

  5. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    89 citations

  6. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    175 citations

  7. Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

    The Hague, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    236 citations

  8. Henan University

    Kaifeng, China

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    171 citations

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  1. PLoS ONE

    5 publications · 221 citations

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  2. Landscape Ecology

    4 publications · 254 citations

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  3. Journal of Archaeological Science

    3 publications · 304 citations

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  4. Global Ecology and Conservation

    GECCO · 3 publications · 116 citations

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  5. Sustainability

    2 publications · 72 citations

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