The growth of large cities is often attributed to their proximity to exogenous, first-nature advantages. This column uses data on 450 Japanese cities to show that in fact, the regularity of ...

This paper studies the theoretical properties of existing economic geography models with agglomeration and dispersion forces in a many-region setup, rather than their original two-region space, to ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the dispersion patterns of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants and their global ...

Spatial analysis involves the analysis of data representing geographical features that have a locational attribute, either absolute (represented by coordinates), or relative positioning (distance).

Aim: Most studies focusing on terrestrial ecosystems have shown that non-native species are more likely to invade phylogenetically clustered communities, that the introduction of non-native species ...