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标题：LAGOS‐US LOCUS v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous U.S.
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作者：Kendra Spence Cheruvelil ; Patricia A. Soranno ; Ian M. McCullough 等
期刊名称：Limnology and Oceanography Letters
电子版ISSN：2378-2242
出版年度：2021
卷号：6
期号：5
页码：270-292
DOI：10.1002/lol2.10203
语种：English
出版社：Wiley
摘要：Macroscale studies of aquatic ecosystems are needed to address many contemporary broad‐scale problems related to global change, particularly to inform national‐scale environmental policies. In this data paper, we fill two important gaps in data availability for lakes at the scale of the conterminous U.S., the lack of: (1) high‐resolution geographic representations of lakes and their watersheds and (2) an open data platform to connect disparate U.S. national‐scale lake datasets. We describe the LAGOS‐US LOCUS v1.0 data module that includes a detailed User Guide, which is part of the LAGOS‐US extensible research‐ready open data platform. This platform can be used to study the 479,950 lakes and reservoirs larger than or equal to 1 ha across the entire conterminous U.S. at multiple scales of space and time. The LOCUS module includes spatially‐explicit information on lakes and their watersheds, including location information, physical characteristics, and identifiers of other important national‐scale datasets.