This paper reviews and highlights recent research findings on food web processes since an
earlier review by Kimmerer et al.(2008). We conduct this review within a conceptual …

Estuaries are dynamic environments at the land–sea interface that are strongly affected by
interannual climate variability. Ocean–atmosphere processes propagate into estuaries from …

Anthropogenic activities lead to changes in characteristics of aquatic ecosystems, including
alteration of turbidity and addition of invasive species. In this study, we tested how changes …

Nursery functions of US West Coast drowned river valley estuaries are not well understood.
Using long-term fish-monitoring data (1995-2017) in Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary …

Many fishes in the San Francisco Estuary have suffered declines in recent decades, as
shown by numerous long-term monitoring programs. A long-term monitoring program, such …

Forage fish production has become a central concern of fisheries and ecosystem managers
because populations of small fish are a critical energetic pathway between primary …

Mortality of planktonic populations is difficult to determine because assumptions of the
methods are rarely met, more so in estuaries where tidal exchange ensures violation of the …

We measured growth rates of the copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi in relation to food,
environmental conditions and hydrology in the northern San Francisco Estuary, California …

In 2016, a massive bloom of the chain-forming diatom Aulacoseira granulata occurred in the
upper San Francisco Estuary, California, with chlorophyll concentrations up to 75 μg Chl L …

We performed a preliminary evaluation of a mobile sampling platform with adjustable push
net and live box (Platform) against two common methods for sampling small-bodied fish (ie …