This chapter reviews and synthesises knowledge on reproduction and recruitment in estuary‐
dependent and estuary‐associated fishes. Resident and migrating species (anadromous …

Global climate change creates critical challenges with increasing temperature, reducing
snowpack, and changing precipitation for water, energy, and food, as well as ecosystem …

Effective conservation of endangered species requires knowledge of the full range of life-
history strategies used to maximize population resilience within a stochastic and ever …

The assimilation of population models into ecological risk assessment (ERA) has been
hindered by their range of complexity, uncertainty, resource investment, and data …

This chapter details the governance and management of estuarine fish ecology, habitats
and fisheries, whereby the governance in turn covers the policies, administrative bodies and …

The Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus is a small translucent fish that lives in the heart of
California's water distribution system. It is an endemic species that is on verge of extinction …

Temperature and salinity often define the distributions of aquatic organisms. This is at least
partially true for Delta Smelt, an imperiled species endemic to the upper San Francisco …

Salinity can interact with organic compounds and modulate their toxicity. Studies have
shown that the fraction of pyrethroid insecticides in the aqueous phase increases with …

This study extends theories of the construction of legal compliance by conceptualizing
scientists as compliance professionals in relation to environmental law. The author argues …

Temperature is a key controlling variable from subcellular to ecosystem scales. Thus,
climatic warming is expected to have broad impacts, especially in economically and …