Data from: Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources

Mountain areas provide disproportionally high runoff in many parts of the world, and here we quantify for the first time their importance for water resources and food production from the viewpoint of the lowland areas downstream. The dataset maps the degree to which lowland areas potentially depend on runoff contributions from mountain areas (39% of land mass) between the 1960s and the 2040s.

山地在全球诸多区域的径流量贡献远超其面积占比。本研究首次从下游低地地区的视角，量化了山地对水资源与粮食生产的重要性。该数据集绘制了1960年代至2040年间，低地地区潜在依赖占全球陆地总面积39%的山地径流量贡献的程度。