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The Influence of Time, Tide, and Place on Fine-Scale Nekton Distribution: Insights from the San Francisco Estuary
The location of estuarine organisms varies based on geophysical cycles and environmental conditions, which can strongly bias understanding of...
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A Spatiotemporal History of Key Pelagic Fish Species in the San Francisco Estuary, CA
Estuaries across the globe have been subject to extensive abiotic and biotic changes and are often monitored to track trends in species abundance....
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Extension of the Practical Salinity Scale to Estimate Major Ion Concentrations: Application to the San Francisco Estuary
This paper presents a novel approach to estimate major ion concentrations in estuaries from a known specific conductance. Assuming two-source...
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The São Francisco Estuary, Brazil
This is a first account of the physical and biogeochemical characteristics of the tropical São Francisco (SF) estuarine system, East Brazil,...
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Freshwater Flow Affects Subsidies of a Copepod (Pseudodiaptomus forbesi) to Low-Salinity Food Webs in the Upper San Francisco Estuary
Productivity of the food web supporting small pelagic fishes in the upper San Francisco Estuary is chronically low, and some of the native fish...
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Diel Behaviors of Zooplankton Interact with Tidal Patterns to Drive Spatial Subsidies in the Northern San Francisco Estuary
Spatial subsidies and habitat connectivity are critical factors in estuarine trophic webs. Advection and tidal dispersion of organic matter including...
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Tidal Asymmetry in Ocean-Boundary Flux and In-Estuary Trap** of Suspended Sediment Following Watershed Storms: San Francisco Estuary, California, USA
Suspended-sediment flux at the ocean boundary of the San Francisco Estuary—the Golden Gate—was measured over a tidal cycle following peak watershed...
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Complex Tidal Marsh Dynamics Structure Fish Foraging Patterns in the San Francisco Estuary
Mechanisms driving the consumption and transport of tidal marsh nutrients and energy by fishes are of key interest in the San Francisco Estuary, CA,...
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Suspended-sediment Flux in the San Francisco Estuary; Part II: the Impact of the 2013–2016 California Drought and Controls on Sediment Flux
Recent modeling has demonstrated that sediment supply is one of the primary environmental variables that will determine the sustainability of San...
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Connections to Tidal Marsh and Restored Salt Ponds Drive Seasonal and Spatial Variability in Ecosystem Metabolic Rates in Lower South San Francisco Bay
We characterized five years of seasonal metabolic patterns in two tidal sloughs in Lower South San Francisco Bay, one surrounded by a broad tidal...
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Community Patterns and Environmental Associations for the Early Life Stages of Fishes in a Highly Transformed Estuary
Estuaries are important fish nursery areas, yet little is known of how environmental forcing influences estuarine fishes during their early life...
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Recognizing Low-Inflow Estuaries as a Common Estuary Paradigm
It has become clear that estuaries with low rates of freshwater inflow are an important but overlooked sphere of estuarine science. Low-inflow...
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Nutrient Status of San Francisco Bay and Its Management Implications
Nutrient enrichment has degraded many of the world’s estuaries by amplifying algal production, leading to hypoxia/anoxia, loss of vascular plants and...
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Suspended Sediment Flux in the San Francisco Estuary: Part I—Changes in the Vertical Distribution of Suspended Sediment and Bias in Estuarine Sediment Flux Measurements
In this study, we investigate how changes in the vertical distribution of suspended sediment affect continuous suspended sediment flux measurements...
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Understanding Marsh Elevation and Accretion Processes and Vulnerability to Rising Sea Levels Across Climatic and Geomorphic Gradients in California, USA
Tidal marshes build elevations by below- and aboveground organic and mineral soil processes. Marsh elevation and accretion data can be used to...
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Paired Synoptic and Long-Term Monitoring Datasets Reveal Decadal Shifts in Suspended Sediment Supply and Particulate Organic Matter Sources in a River-Estuarine System
The San Francisco Estuary, in central California, has several long-running monitoring programs that have been used to reveal human-induced changes...
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Factors Controlling Calanoid Copepod Biomass and Distribution in the Upper San Francisco Estuary and Implications for Managing the Imperiled Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus)
Delta smelt struggle to persist in a dramatically altered estuarine environment. Complex and incompletely understood relationships between food...
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Relations Between Abiotic and Biotic Environmental Variables and Occupancy of Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) in Autumn
There is much debate about the extent to which water management in the upper San Francisco Estuary, California, affects the habitat and status of...
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Efficacy and Fate of Fluridone Applications for Control of Invasive Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in the Estuarine Environment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Estuaries are ecologically and economically important ecosystems but are threatened by non-native invasive species, including many species of...
