Fig. 5: Dominant land cover in catchments feeding glacial lakes. | Nature Water

Fig. 5: Dominant land cover in catchments feeding glacial lakes.

From: Evolving resource potential of glacial lakes with ongoing deglaciation

Fig. 5: Dominant land cover in catchments feeding glacial lakes.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

We identified the most abundant (‘dominant’) land cover class in each catchment upstream of glacial lakes across 18 study regions using ESA WorldCover maps, version 2 (https://worldcover2021.esa.int/). Percentages are shown for the classes ‘Snow and ice’ and ‘Bare/sparse vegetation’ only. Numbers on the right indicate the sample size, along with the percentage of glacier-coupled lakes per region.

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