Peter Moyle Amber Manfree Fiedler, Peggy L
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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.
Robyn, Suddeth
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is in a state of inevitable transition. Physical and financial pressures are likely to transform parts of the Delta into open water within the next 100 years. Because flooded islands have different habitat, water quality, and hydrodynamic implications depending on location, depth, orientation, and other physical fac...
Peter Moyle Crain, Patrick K. Whitener, Keith
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Fishes were sampled on the restored floodplain of the Cosumnes River in Central California in order to determine patterns of floodplain use. The floodplain was sampled for seven years (1998-2002, 2004-2005) during the winter-spring flooding season. The fishes fell into five groups: (1) floodplain spawners, (2) river spawners, (3) floodplain forager...
Quiñones, Rebecca M. Peter Moyle
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Climate change is expected to progressively shift the freshwater environments of the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) to states that favor alien fishes over native species. Native species likely will have more limited distributions and some may be extirpated. Stream-dependent species may decline as portions of streams dry or become warmer due to lower...
Jeffrey Mount Robert, Twiss
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Anthropogenic accommodation space, or that space in the Delta that lies below sea level and is filled neither with sediment nor water, serves as a useful measure of the regional consequences of Delta subsidence and sea level rise. Microbial oxidation and compaction of organic-rich soils due to farming activity is the primary cause of Delta subsiden...
Josué Medellín-Azuara Richard Howitt Hanak, Ellen Jay Lund William Fleenor
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Sea level rise, large-scale flooding, and new conveyance arrangements for water exports may increase future water salinity for local agricultural production in California\textquoterights Sacramento\textendashSan Joaquin Delta. Increasing salinity in crop root zones often decreases crop yields and crop revenues. Salinity effects are nonlinear, and v...
Patrick K., Crain Peter Moyle
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
This paper is a review of the biology of Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) based mainly on recent studies of their distribution, ecology, physiology, and genetics. The Sacramento perch is the only member of the family Centrarchidae that is endemic to California. It is most closely related to the rock basses (Ambloplites spp.) and is though...
R E, Schroeter Teejay, Orear Matthew Young Peter Moyle
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Using stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) and mixing models, we investigated the trophic levels and carbon sources of invertebrates and fishes of a large tidal marsh in the San Francisco Estuary. Our goal was to better understand an estuarine food web comprised of native and alien species. We found the following: (1) the food web w...
Williams, Philip B Andrews, Elizabeth Opperman, Jeff J Bozkurt, Setenay Peter Moyle
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San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
We describe a process and methodology for quantifying the extent of a type of historically prevalent, but now relatively rare, ecologically-valuable floodplains in the Sacramento lowland river system: frequently-activated floodplains. We define a specific metric the \textquotedblleftFloodplain Activation Flow\textquotedblright (FAF), which is the s...
Herbold, Bruce Baltz, Donald M Brown, Larry Grossinger, Robin Kimmerer, Wim Lehman, Peggy Peter Moyle Nobriga, Matthew Simenstad, Charles A
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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...