An Investigation of Factors Affecting the Decline of Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary

WJ Miller, BFJ Manly, DD Murphy… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The delta smelt is an annual fish that is endemic to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary
and is protected under federal and California Endangered Species Acts. Record low …

Evaluation of a large-scale flow manipulation to the upper San Francisco Estuary: Response of habitat conditions for an endangered native fish

T Sommer, R Hartman, M Koller, M Koohafkan… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
While flow is known to be a major driver of estuarine ecosystems, targeted flow
manipulations are rare because tidal systems are extremely variable in space and time, and …

Suspended-sediment flux and retention in a backwater tidal slough complex near the landward boundary of an estuary

TL Morgan-King, DH Schoellhamer - Estuaries and coasts, 2013 - Springer
Backwater tidal sloughs are commonly found at the landward boundary of estuaries. The
Cache Slough complex is a backwater tidal region within the Upper Sacramento–San …

[BOOK][B] A Scientific Assessment of Alternatives for Reducing Water Management Effects on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in California's Bay-Delta

National Research Council, Life Studies… - 2010 - books.google.com
California's Bay-Delta estuary is a biologically diverse estuarine ecosystem that plays a
central role in the distribution of California's water from the state's wetter northern regions to …