Bernhard Lehner

93 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Bernhard Lehner's Hit Papers

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) 2025 · 34 citations
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Bernhard Lehner
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  • Water Science and Technology 5.8k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 2.8k
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.3k
  • Ocean Engineering 2.5k
  • Environmental Chemistry 1.5k
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Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands
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20041853
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High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management
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20111840
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Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers
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20191809
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New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data
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20081696
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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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20131403
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Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach
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20161213
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A global hydrological model for deriving water availability indicators: model tuning and validation
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2002897
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Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities
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2008853
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Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water
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2011701
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Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis
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2006698
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Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability
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2003668
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Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries
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2023607
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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure
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2014568
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An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales
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2015491
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Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams
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2021417
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Global patterns and dynamics of climate–groundwater interactions
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2019373
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Lost in Development's Shadow: The Downstream Human Consequences of Dams
2010278
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About Bernhard Lehner

Bernhard Lehner is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry and Ocean Engineering, having authored 93 papers that have together received 20.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (30 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (21 papers), Water resources management and optimization (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (7 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Water Science and Technology (5.8k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.3k citations), Ocean Engineering (2.5k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (1.5k citations). Bernhard Lehner has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Petra Döll, Günther Grill, Frank Kaspar, Kristine L. Verdin, Andy Jarvis, Joseph Alcamo, Mathis Messager, Thomas Henrichs, Oliver Schmitt and Catherine Reidy Liermann. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Journal of Hydrology, Earth system science data, Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Conservation Letters.

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