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

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 494-502

  Lehner, Bernhard ^a   Liermann, Catherine Reidy ^b   Revenga, Carmen ^c   Vörömsmarty, Charles ^d   Fekete, Balazs ^d   Crouzet, Philippe ^e   Döll, Petra ^f   Endejan, Marcel ^g   Frenken, Karen ^h   Magome, Jun ⁱ   Nilsson, Christer ^j   Robertson, James C ^c   Rödel, Raimund ^k   Sindorf, Nikolai ^l   Wisser, Dominik ^m  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Global Water System Project   (Germany)

^h FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^j UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^l World Wildlife Fund ^*  (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOHYDROLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RIVER FLOW; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SURFACE WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79952458749     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/100125     Document Type: Review

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