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Publications Citing GPW Data

List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using GPW data.

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Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic	Dataset
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems	2023	Reader, Martin Oliver, Eppinga, Maarten B., de Boer, Hugo Jan, Damm, Alexander, Petchey, Owen L., Santos, Maria J.	Pasture, Land Use/Land Cover, Anthropogenic/Human Influenced Ecosystems, Population Size, AMPHIBIANS, MAMMALS	Global Agricultural Lands: Pastures, 2000 Last of the Wild Project, Version 3 (LWP-3): 2009 Human Footprint, 2018 Release Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count, Revision 11 Gridded Species Distribution: Global Amphibian Richness Grids, 2015 Release Gridded Species Distribution: Global Mammal Richness Grids, 2015 Release
Bayesian profile regression to study the ecologic associations of correlated environmental exposures with excess mortality risk during the first year of the Covid-19 ...	2023	Coker, Eric S., Molitor, John, Liverani, Silvia, Martin, James, Maranzano, Paolo, Pontarollo, Nicola, Vergalli, Sergio	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Behavior mediates the health effects of extreme wildfire smoke events	2023	Heft-Neal, Sam, Gould, Carlos, Childs, Marissa, Kiang, Mathew, Nadeau, Kari, Duggan, Mark, Bendavid, Eran, Burke, Marshall	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 10
Asia faces a growing threat from intraseasonal compound weather whiplash	2023	Fang, Beijing, Lu, Mengqian	Population Density, Population Estimates, Socioeconomics	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11 Global One-Eighth Degree Population Base Year and Projection Grids Based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, Revision 01
Climate change mitigation potentials of biofuels produced from perennial crops and natural regrowth on abandoned and degraded cropland in Nordic countries	2023	Nss, Jan Sandstad, Hu, Xiangping, Gvein, Maren Haug, Iordan, Cristina-Maria, Cavalett, Otavio, Dorber, Martin, Giroux, Baptiste, Cherubini, Francesco	Boundaries, Population Distribution	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): National Identifier Grid, Revision 11
Characterizing spatialtemporal drought risk heterogeneities: a hazard, vulnerability and resilience-based modeling	2023	Khoshnazar, Ali, Corzo Perez, Gerald, Sajjad, Muhammad	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11
Changing Responses of PM2.5 and Ozone to Source Emissions in the Yangtze River Delta Using the Adjoint Model	2023	Hu, Weiyang, Zhao, Yu, Lu, Ni, Wang, Xiaolin, Zheng, Bo, Henze, Daven K., Zhang, Lin, Fu, Tzung-May, Zhai, Shixian	Population Size	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count, Revision 11
Cascading failure model and resilience enhancement scheme of space information networks	2023	Zhang, Le, Du, Ye	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density
Can social media be used to inform the distribution of the marbled polecat, Vormela peregusna?	2023	Wright, Patrick G. R., Croose, Elizabeth, Hunter, Sara Bronwen, MacPherson, Jenny, Coraman, Emrah, Yarotskiy, Volodymyr, Moisieieva, Viktoriia, Karapandza, Branko, Hoxha, Bledi, Madalina, Petrisor, Tilova, Elena, Radonjic, Marina	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Association between exposure to ambient PM2.5 and the health status in the mobile population from 338 cities in China	2023	Shi, Yukun, Zhao, Yang, Li, Hongyu, Liu, Haiyun, Wang, Luyang, Liu, Junyan, Chen, Haotian, Yang, Baoshun, Shan, Haifeng, Yuan, Shijia, Gao, Wenhui, Wang, Guangcheng, Han, Chunlei	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11
Aquifer conditions, not irradiance determine the potential of photovoltaic energy for groundwater pumping across Africa	2023	Meunier, Simon, Kitanidis, Peter K., Cordier, Amaury, MacDonald, Alan M.	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Combining remote sensing and tracking data to quantify species' cumulative exposure to anthropogenic change	2023	Buchan, Claire, Gilroy, James J., Catry, Ines, Hewson, Chris M., Atkinson, Philip W., Franco, Aldina M. A.	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA	2023	Yovovich, Veronica, Robinson, Nathaniel, Robinson, Hugh, Manfredo, Michael J., Perry, Shelby, Bruskotter, Jeremy T., Vucetich, John A., Solorzano, Luis Anibal, Roe, Lydia A., Lesure, Alison, Robertson, Jamie, Butler, Tom, Elbroch, L. Mark	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Developing novel machine-learning-based fire weather indices	2023	Shmuel, Assaf, Heifetz, Eyal	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	2023	Dominguez, Alvaro	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11
Data science approaches to public health: case studies using routine health data from India	2023	Mitra, Arun, Soman, Biju, Gaitonde, Rakhal, Bhatnagar, Tarun, Nieuhas, Engelbert, Kumar, Sajin	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Countries most exposed to individual and concurrent extremes and near-permanent extreme conditions at different global warming levels	2023	Batibeniz, Fulden, Hauser, Mathias, Seneviratne, Sonia Isabelle	Population Estimates, Socioeconomics, Population Size	Global One-Eighth Degree Population Base Year and Projection Grids Based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, Revision 01 Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count, Revision 11
Country-level energy demand for cooling has increased over the past two decades	2023	Scoccimarro, Enrico, Cattaneo, Oreste, Gualdi, Silvio, Mattion, Francesco, Bizeul, Alexandre, Risquez, Arnau Martin, Quadrelli, Roberta	Population Size	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count, Revision 11
Country-level estimates of gross and net carbon fluxes from land use, land-use change and forestry	2023	Obermeier, Wolfgang Alexander, Schwingshackl, Clemens, Bastos, Ana, Conchedda, Giulia, Gasser, Thomas, Grassi, Giacomo, Houghton, Richard A., Tubiello, Francesco Nicola, Sitch, Stephen, Pongratz, Julia	Boundaries, Population Distribution	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): National Identifier Grid, Revision 11
Emergency department visits respond nonlinearly to wildfire smoke	2023	Heft-Neal, Sam, Gould, Carlos F., Childs, Marissa L., Kiang, Mathew V., Nadeau, Kari C., Duggan, Mark, Bendavid, Eran, Burke, Marshall	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 10
Effective reduction of land-to-ocean plastic leakage in Thailand from 2000 to 2019 and implications for low-and middle-income countries	2023	Chen, Qinqin, Fei, Xunchang	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Eco-ISEA3H, a machine learning ready spatial database for ecometric and species distribution modeling	2023	Mechenich, Michael F., Zliobaite, Indre	Population Density, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11 MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061 MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 MODIS/Terra Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V061 MODIS/Terra Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V006
Ecological and environmental predictors of juvenile coral density across the central and western Pacific	2023	Couch, Courtney S., Oliver, Thomas A., Dettloff, Kyle, Huntington, Brittany, Tanaka, Kisei R., Vargas-Angel, Bernardo	Population Density	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Ecological Barriers for an Amphibian Pathogen: A Narrow Ecological Niche for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in an Asian Chytrid Hotspot	2023	Sun, Dan, Ellepola, Gajaba, Herath, Jayampathi, Meegaskumbura, Madhava	AMPHIBIANS, Population Density	Gridded Species Distribution: Global Amphibian Richness Grids, 2015 Release Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11
Ecological niche model transferability of the white star apple (Chrysophyllum albidum G. Don) in the context of climate and global changes	2023	Ganglo, Jean Cossi	Population Estimates, Boundaries	Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Administrative Unit Center Points with Population Estimates, Revision 11

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