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ArticleScientific reports2025

GLOBal river SALiniTy and associated ions (GlobSalt).

Alvaro Javier Moyano-Salcedo, Theresa Piana, Julie Crabot, Ben J Kefford, Elisabeth Berger, Shelley E Arnott, Josefin Thorslund, Michel Meybeck, Sujay S Kaushal, Ralf B Schäfer and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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11 authors.

Alvaro Javier Moyano-SalcedoFEHM-Lab (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. alvarojavierms@gmail.com.
Theresa PianaRPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, iES - Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, Germany.
Julie CrabotDepartment of Geology & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Ben J KeffordCentre for Applied Water Science, Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Elisabeth BergerRPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, iES - Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, Germany.
Shelley E ArnottDepartment of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
Josefin ThorslundDepartment of Physical Geography, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Michel MeybeckUMR 7619 METIS, Sorbonne Université-CNRS-EPHE, Paris, France.
Sujay S KaushalDepartment of Geology & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Ralf B SchäferRPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, iES - Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, Germany.
Miguel Cañedo-ArgüellesFEHM-Lab (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), CSIC, Carrer de Jordi Girona, SHE-218-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain. mcahse@cid.csic.es.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Freshwater salinization (FS) is a threat to freshwater ecosystems, but its impact remains relatively poorly understood compared to other stressors (e.g. nutrient pollution), with some regions (e.g. Asia, Africa) remaining poorly explored. To assess how pervasive this issue is globally and identify salinization hotspots, we compiled global data on river salinity and associated ions. We retrieved information from different sources, harmonized it and merged it with HydroATLAS watersheds. Our global data set (GlobSalt) features 13 parameters, including electrical conductivity (EC), major ions, and nutrients. GlobSalt contains approximately fifteen million records on a monthly scale for river stations from 1980 to 2023 from all continents except Antarctica. The global median EC was 509 ± 205 μS cm

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Electrical conductivityFreshwater salinizationGlobal salinity dataMajor ionsSalinization hotspots

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PMID40437104
PMCPMC12120065

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