Published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Tidal marsh restoration is an important management issue in the San Francisco Estuary (estuary). Restoration of large areas of tidal marsh is ongoing or planned in the lower estuary (up to 6,000 ha, Callaway et al. 2011). Large areas are proposed for restoration in the upper estuary under the Endangered Species Act biological opinions (3,237 ha) an...
Mediterranean agricultural systems are vulnerable to the climate. Increased variability of temperature and precipitations, for example, would impact natural resources, cropping systems, and farmers' income. The objective of this paper is to describe, based on a large literature review, the possible behaviors of natural resources, farming systems, a...
A magazine feature profiling the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Published in Wildlife Society Bulletin
In 1995, California established the first conservation banking program in the United States to provide a new financial mechanism to conserve wildlife and natural communities in rapidly developing regions. Conservation banks are lands protected and managed for conservation of species of con cern. Developers may purchase species credits from a conser...
Published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Suisun Marsh is the largest tidal wetland in the San Francisco Estuary that has been subject to 6000 years of constant change, which is accelerating. Decisions made today will have major effects on its value as habitat for native biota in the future.
Published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Using science to adaptively guide management for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is widely talked about as good public policy. Almost every agency, stakeholder, and planning process professes support and has its own adaptive management and science efforts. But highly fragmented adaptive management and science cannot solve such urgent complex probl...
This study for the state Delta Protection Commission compared the effectiveness of using new remotely sensed measurement technology to estimate farmers\textquoteright "consumptive water use," or the amount of irrigation water crops transpire and evaporate from the nearby soil. Current methods of estimation and reporting of consumptive water use can...
Published in River Research and Applications
Temporary streams in California and other Mediterranean climate areas are among the aquatic habitats most altered by human actions and by invasions by alien species. They typically support novel ecosystems, defined as ecosystems dominated by new combinations of organisms in highly altered habitats. Although these new ecosystems have many attributes...
American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy convened an independent panel of experts to review the March 2013 draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the state of Californias proposal to build two huge water export tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The panel led by geologist Jeffrey Mount, founding director of the UC Davis Center f...
Published in SpringerPlus
Myxozoan spores were observed in yellowfin goby Acanthogobius flavimanus collected from Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary (SFE). Although histopathological changes associated with the parasite were not observed, the spores formed plasmodia that partially blocked the gastric and intestinal mucosa and gut lumen and may affect the perfomance and sur...
