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.

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LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0：美国本土湖泊及其流域的位置、标识符和物理特征数据模块

需要对水生生态系统进行宏观研究，以解决与全球变化相关的许多当代大范围问题，特别是为国家级环境政策提供信息。在这份数据论文中，我们填补了美国本土规模湖泊数据可用性方面的两个重要空白：(1) 湖泊及其流域的高分辨率地理表示；(2) 用于连接的开放数据平台不同的美国国家尺度湖泊数据集。我们描述了 LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 数据模块，其中包括详细的用户指南，这是 LAGOS-US 可扩展研究就绪开放数据平台的一部分。该平台可用于研究整个美国本土在多个空间和时间尺度上大于或等于 1 公顷的 479,950 个湖泊和水库。