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Research
Latest papers
Mapping area of habitat for inland wetland species.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
Antibiotics in the global river system arising from human consumption.
PNAS nexus · 2025
Evaluating the suitability of large-scale datasets to estimate nitrogen loads and yields across different spatial scales.
Water research · 2025
Latest funding
- $306,000
Large-scale water quality modeling to screen for risks in Canadian and global freshwater bodies using a high-resolution river routing approach
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $135,000
High-resolution river routing at large scales to analyze hydrographic patterns, risks and trends of Canadian and global freshwater resources
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $4,504,900
NSERC Canadian Network for Aquatic Ecosystem Services
NSERC · 2011 · Co-investigator
15 publications.
Mapping area of habitat for inland wetland species.
Ridley FA, Sayer CA, Mair L, Baisero D, Böhm M, Brooks TM, Butchart SHM, Clausnitzer V, Freyhof J, Grill G, Harrison I, Jiménez RR, Lehner B, Macfarlane NBW, Plumptre AJ, van Soesbergen A, Worthington TA, Starnes T
Antibiotics in the global river system arising from human consumption.
Ehalt Macedo H, Lehner B, Nicell JA, Khan U, Klein EY
Evaluating the suitability of large-scale datasets to estimate nitrogen loads and yields across different spatial scales.
Suárez-Castro AF, Robertson DM, Lehner B, de Souza ML, Kittridge M, Saad DA, Linke S, McDowell RW, Ranjbar MH, Ausseil O, Hamilton DP
The Global Dam Watch database of river barrier and reservoir information for large-scale applications.
Lehner B, Beames P, Mulligan M, Zarfl C, De Felice L, van Soesbergen A, Thieme M, Garcia de Leaniz C, Anand M, Belletti B, Brauman KA, Januchowski-Hartley SR, Lyon K, Mandle L, Mazany-Wright N, Messager ML, Pavelsky T, Pekel JF, Wang J, Wen Q, Wishart M, Xing T, Yang X, Higgins J
Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries.
Fluet-Chouinard E, Stocker BD, Zhang Z, Malhotra A, Melton JR, Poulter B, Kaplan JO, Goldewijk KK, Siebert S, Minayeva T, Hugelius G, Joosten H, Barthelmes A, Prigent C, Aires F, Hoyt AM, Davidson N, Finlayson CM, Lehner B, Jackson RB, McIntyre PB
Setting priorities for climate change adaptation of Critical Sites in the Africa-Eurasian waterbird flyways.
Breiner FT, Anand M, Butchart SHM, Flörke M, Fluet-Chouinard E, Guisan A, Hilarides L, Jones VR, Kalyakin M, Lehner B, van Leeuwen M, Pearce-Higgins JW, Voltzit O, Nagy S
Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams.
Messager ML, Lehner B, Cockburn C, Lamouroux N, Pella H, Snelder T, Tockner K, Trautmann T, Watt C, Datry T
Spatial variability of ecosystem exposure to home and personal care chemicals in Asia.
Jolliet O, Wannaz C, Kilgallon J, Speirs L, Franco A, Lehner B, Veltman K, Hodges J
Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution.
Linke S, Lehner B, Ouellet Dallaire C, Ariwi J, Grill G, Anand M, Beames P, Burchard-Levine V, Maxwell S, Moidu H, Tan F, Thieme M
Unexpected large evasion fluxes of carbon dioxide from turbulent streams draining the world's mountains.
Horgby Å, Segatto PL, Bertuzzo E, Lauerwald R, Lehner B, Ulseth AJ, Vennemann TW, Battin TJ
Large-scale water quality modeling to screen for risks in Canadian and global freshwater bodies using a high-resolution river routing approach
Principal investigators: Lehner, Bernhard
Keywords: Contaminant fate modeling; Geographic Information Science; Global; Hydrological modeling; Lakes; Rivers; Sediment transport; Wastewater; Water quality; Water temperature
High-resolution river routing at large scales to analyze hydrographic patterns, risks and trends of Canadian and global freshwater resources
Principal investigators: Lehner, Bernhard
NSERC Canadian Network for Aquatic Ecosystem Services
Principal investigators: Jackson, Donald
Global hydrological modeling to analyze the effects of climate, land use & socioeconomic change on the world's water resources
Principal investigators: Lehner, Bernhard
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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