Here we introduce the LakeATLAS dataset, which provides a broad range of hydro-
environmental characteristics for more than 1.4 million lakes and reservoirs globally with an …

Rivers are among the most imperiled ecosystems globally, yet we do not have broad‐scale
understanding of their changing ecology because most are rarely sampled. Water color, as …

Satellite estimates of inland water quality have the potential to vastly expand our ability to
observe and monitor the dynamics of large water bodies. For almost 50 years, we have been …

Methane is an important greenhouse gas with growing atmospheric concentrations.
Freshwater lakes and reservoirs contribute substantially to atmospheric methane …

Abstract Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) is one of the optically active constituents in waters, and its
concentration is frequently utilized as a proxy for lake trophic levels. However, generating a …

Most environmental data come from a minority of well‐monitored sites. An ongoing
challenge in the environmental sciences is transferring knowledge from monitored sites to …

River network connectivity (RC) describes the hydrologic exchange of water, nutrients,
sediments, and pollutants between the river channel and other “sites” via heterogenous …

Ecological research increasingly relies on broad‐scale databases containing information
collected by personnel from a variety of sources, including government agencies …

Despite their small spatial extent, fluvial ecosystems play a significant role in processing and
transporting carbon in aquatic networks, which results in substantial emission of methane …

Accounting for temporal changes in carbon dioxide (CO 2) effluxes from freshwaters remains
a challenge for global and regional carbon budgets. Here, we synthesize 171 site-months of …