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Bernhard Lehner

Bernhard Lehner

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
30705
World Ranking
4348
National Ranking
181

Overview

Bernhard Lehner is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Recent publications by Bernhard Lehner highlight various aspects of environmental and water-related sciences. Notable papers include:

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, 2023, Nature
  • Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams, 2021, Nature
  • Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network, 2022, Earth System Science Data
  • The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision, 2020, One Earth

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
  • Michele Thieme
  • Zhen Zhang
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • Günther Grill

Bernhard Lehner's work appears regularly in several publication venues, with multiple articles published in Nature, Earth System Science Data, Water Resources Research, Scientific Data, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

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

    Bernhard Lehner;Bernhard Lehner;Petra Döll

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

    Bernhard Lehner;Catherine Reidy Liermann;Carmen Revenga;Charles Vörösmarty

  • New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data

    Bernhard Lehner;Bernhard Lehner;Kristine Verdin;Andy Jarvis

  • Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

    G. Grill;B. Lehner;M. Thieme;B. Geenen

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

    Bernhard Lehner;Günther Grill

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

    Mathis Loïc Messager;Bernhard Lehner;Günther Grill;Irena Nedeva

  • A global hydrological model for deriving water availability indicators: model tuning and validation

    Petra Döll;Frank Kaspar;Bernhard Lehner

  • Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

    R. Naidoo;A. Balmford;Robert Costanza;B. Fisher

  • Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability

    Joseph Alcamo;Petra Döll;Thomas Henrichs;Frank Kaspar

  • Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis

    Bernhard Lehner;Petra Döll;Joseph Alcamo;Thomas Henrichs

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • 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

    Robert I. McDonald;Katherine Weber;Julie Padowski;Martina Flörke

  • An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales

    Günther Grill;Bernhard Lehner;Alexander E. Lumsdon;Alexander E. Lumsdon;Graham K. MacDonald

  • Unlocking the potential of protected areas for freshwaters

    Robin Abell;J. David Allan;Bernhard Lehner

  • Global estimates of water withdrawals and availability under current and future “business-as-usual” conditions

    Joseph Alcamo;Petra Döll;Thomas Henrichs;Frank Kaspar

  • Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution.

    Simon Linke;Bernhard Lehner;Camille Ouellet Dallaire;Joseph Ariwi

  • Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams

    Mathis Loïc Messager;Bernhard Lehner;Charlotte Cockburn;Charlotte Cockburn;Nicolas Lamouroux

  • The impact of global change on the hydropower potential of Europe: a model-based analysis

    Bernhard Lehner;Gregor Czisch;Sara Vassolo

  • Lost in development's shadow: the downstream human consequences of dams.

    Brian D. Richter;Sandra Postel;Carmen Revenga;Thayer Scudder

  • Global patterns and dynamics of climate-groundwater interactions

    M. O. Cuthbert;M. O. Cuthbert;T. Gleeson;N. Moosdorf;K. M. Befus

  • Reply to Comment on ‘An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales’

    Günther Grill;Bernhard Lehner;Alexander E Lumsdon;Alexander E Lumsdon;Graham K MacDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
Joseph Alcamo
Joseph Alcamo University of Sussex
Fabrice Papa
Fabrice Papa Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Martina Flörke
Martina Flörke Ruhr University Bochum
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen
Filipe Aires
Filipe Aires Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Simon Linke
Simon Linke CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Usman A. Khan
Usman A. Khan Tufts University
Simon Dadson
Simon Dadson University of Oxford

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