HydroSHEDS community
The different HydroSHEDS products are used in a broad variety of research studies and applications. If you think your work should be featured in this section, please send us a message.
Note that we cannot add all submissions but we are particularly interested to hear about projects that showcase the global or regional applicability of HydroSHEDS.
Links to select external applications:
The UN Environment Program's Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer quantifies the status of freshwater ecosystems to support Sustainable Development Goal 6.6.
IUCN produces freshwater species distribution maps based on HydroBASINS delineations.
WWF's Water Risk Filter helps companies assesses multiple aspects of water risk and supports corporate water stewardship.
The Global Dam Watch initiative uses HydroSHEDS products to georeference, curate and analyze their information on global dam and reservoir distributions
Select publications using HydroSHEDS:
Identifying the current and future status of freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin. Caldas, B., Thieme, M. et al. Published January 2023 in Conservation Science and Practice
Drivers of global mangrove loss and gain in social-ecological systems. Hagger, V., Worthington, T.A. et al. Published October 2022 in Nature Communications
Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data. Crezee, B., Dargie, G.C. et al. Published July 2022 in Nature Geoscience
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater. Lutz, A.F, Immerzeel, W.W. et al. Published May 2022 in Nature Climate Change
Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss. Huggins, X., Gleeson, T. et al. Published January 2022 in Nature Communications
Competition for water induced by transnational land acquisitions for agriculture. Chiarelli, D.D., D'Odorico, P. et al. Published January 2022 in Nature Communications
Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna. He, F., Thieme, M. et al. Published November 2021 in Biological Conservation
Identifying priority areas for surface water protection in data scarce regions: an integrated spatial analysis for Zambia. Lehner, B., Katiyo, L. et al. Published May 2021 in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Aquatic areas of ecological importance as inputs into surface water resource protection areas in Zambia. Rivers-Moore, N.A., Paxton, B. et al. Published May 2021 in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
The relationship between watershed protection and water quality: the case of Québec, Canada. Hanna, D.E.L., Lehner, B. et al. Published May 2021 in Freshwater Science
Undermined co-benefits of hydropower and irrigation under climate change. Meng, Y., Liu, J. et al. Published April 2021 in Resources, Conservation, and Recycling.
Human alteration of global surface water storage variability. Cooley, S., Ryan, J.C. & Smith, L.C. Published March 2021 in Nature
Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning. Mitchell, G.E., Schuster, R. et al. Published January 2021 in Environmental Research Letters.
Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution. Borrelle, S.B., Ringma, J. et al. Published September 2020 in Science
Estimating nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in streams and rivers, within a machine learning framework. Shen, L.Q., Amatulli, G. et al. Published May 2020 in Nature Scientific Data
Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers. Immerzeel, W.W., Lutz, A.F. et al. Published December 2019 in Nature
Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping. de Graaf, I.E.M, Gleeson, T., et al. Published October 2019 in Nature
Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America. Tellman, B., McDonald, R.I. et al. Published December 2018 in Plos one
A Continental-Scale Hydroeconomic Model for Integrating Water-Energy-Land Nexus Solutions. Kahil, T., Parkinson, S. et al. Published September 2018 in Water Resources Research.
Freshwater megafauna diversity: Patterns, status, and threats. He, F., Bremerich, V. et al. Published June 2018 in Diversity and Distributions
Water competition between cities and agriculture driven by climate change and urban growth. Flörke, M., Schneider, C., & McDonald, R.I. Published January 2018 in Nature Sustainability.
Export of plastic debris by rivers into the sea. Schmidt, C., Krauth, T., & Wagner, S. Published October 2017 in Environmental Science & Technology
Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countries. Herrera, D. Ellis, A. et al. Published October 2017 in Nature Communications
Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming. Maavara, T., Lauerwald, R. et al. Published May 2017 in Nature Communications
Beyond the fenceline: assessing protection gaps for the world’s rivers. Abell, R., Lehner, B. et al. Published September 2016 in Conservation Letters
Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. Venter, O., Sanderson, E.W. et al. Published August 2016 in Nature Communications.
Risk assessment of down-the-drain chemicals at large spatial scales: Model development and application to contaminants originating from urban areas in the Saint Lawrence River Basin. Grill, G., Khan, U. et al. Published January 2016 in Science of the Total Environment.
Development of a global inundation map at high spatial resolution from topographic downscaling of coarse-scale remote sensing data. Fluet-Chouinard, E., Lehner, B. et al. Published March 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment
Global suspended sediment and water discharge dynamics between 1960 and 2010: Continental trends and intra-basin sensitivity. Cohen, S., Kettner, A.J., & Syvitski, J.P.M. Published April 2014 in Global and Planetary Change
Feedbacks between deforestation, climate, and hydrology in the Southwestern Amazon: implications for the provision of ecosystem services. Lima, L.S., Coe, M.T., et al. Published February 2014 in Landscape Ecology
Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters. Raymond, P.A., Hartmann, J. et al. Published November 2013 in Nature