Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

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Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

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Greening of the Earth and its drivers

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The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

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The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

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High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management

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Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

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New Global Hydrography Derived from Spaceborne Elevation Data

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Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems

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Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach

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Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis

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A global inventory of lakes based on high-resolution satellite imagery

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Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

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Large contribution to inland water CO2 and CH4 emissions from very small ponds

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Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure

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Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

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Emerging global role of small lakes and ponds: little things mean a lot

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Implications of Dam Obstruction for Global Freshwater Fish Diversity

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Global-scale analysis of river flow alterations due to water withdrawals and reservoirs

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Global monthly water stress: 1. Water balance and water availability

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Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017

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The SWOT Mission and Its Capabilities for Land Hydrology

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Statistical Modeling of Global Geogenic Fluoride Contamination in Groundwaters

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Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration

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LPJmL4 – a dynamic global vegetation model with managed land – Part 1: Model description

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The consumptive water footprint of electricity and heat: a global assessment

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A Global Assessment of Inland Wetland Conservation Status

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Tracking global change in ecosystem area: The Wetland Extent Trends index

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An approach for global monitoring of surface water extent variations in reservoirs using MODIS data

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Improvements to the Wetland Extent Trends (WET) index as a tool for monitoring natural and human-made wetlands

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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17

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Multi-source global wetland maps combining surface water imagery and groundwater constraints

Tootchi, A., Jost, A., & Ducharne, A. (2019) · Earth System Science Data · doi:10.5194/essd-11-189-2019 · Cited by 165

Implementing the nitrogen cycle into the dynamic global vegetation, hydrology, and crop growth model LPJmL (version 5.0)

(2018) · doi:10.5194/gmd-11-2789-2018 · Cited by 155

Remote Sensing of the Distribution and Extent of Wetlands in the Amazon Basin

Melack, J. M., & Hess, L. L. (2010) · Ecological Studies · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8725-6_3 · Cited by 153

A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems

Robinne, F.-N., Bladon, K. D., Miller, C., Parisien, M.-A., Mathieu, J., & Flannigan, M. D. (2018) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.112 · Cited by 122

Natural wetland emissions of methylated trace elements

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Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 to improve the performance of protected areas and conserve freshwater biodiversity

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Extensive loss of past permafrost carbon but a net accumulation into present-day soils

Lindgren, A., Hugelius, G., & Kuhry, P. (2018) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0371-0 · Cited by 76

The global value of freshwater lakes

Li, X., & Tsigaris, P. (2024) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/ele.14388 · Cited by 20