Download or read book The Interaction of Physical and Biological Determinants Producing Vegetation Zonation in Tidal Marshes of the San Francisco Bay Estuary California USA written by Steven Dudley Culberson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Change in San Francisco Estuary Tidal Marshes written by Elizabeth Burke Watson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Marine Biology written by D.W. Sims and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963 under the founding editorship of Sir Frederick S. Russell, FRS. Now edited by D.W. Sims, with an internationally renowned Editorial Board, the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, and biological oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of Calanoid Copepods. * Highly cited review papers and thematic volumes in the broad area of marine biology * Complete review and synthesis of scientific work that exposes newcomers to a thorough understanding of the background in the field * Special attention given to high-quality figures and tables with color throughout
Download or read book Tidal Wetland Vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Estuary written by Lisa Marie Schile and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tidal wetland ecosystems are dynamic coastal habitats that, in California, often occur at the complex nexus of aquatic environments, diked and leveed baylands, and modified upland habitat. Because of their prime coastal location and rich peat soil, many wetlands have been reduced, degraded, and/or destroyed, and yet their important role in carbon sequestration, nutrient and sediment filtering, flood control, and as habitat requires us to further research, conserve, and examine their sustainability, particularly in light of predicted climate change. Predictions of regional climate change effects for the San Francisco Bay Estuary present a future with reduced summer freshwater input and increased sea levels, resulting in higher estuarine salinities throughout the growing season, increased saline influence in brackish and freshwater marshes, and increased depth and duration of inundation. Experimentally testing, monitoring across scales, and spatially modeling the responses of dominant wetland vegetation to the substantial predicted climate change effects are among the critical threads of knowledge needed to understand how this estuary and others along the Pacific coast might respond to significant changes in physical drivers and community interactions. My dissertation research focused on possibilities for wetland resilience in a changing climate in the San Francisco Bay Estuary across scales and using a suite of methodologies. Tidal wetland resilience to predicted sea-level rise requires an understanding of both individual plant and community-level responses in addition their interactions with sediment supply and adjacent land uses. Through a large field experiment simulating sea-level rise, I found that wetland plants have a high tolerance for increases in inundation in the short term and that community interactions need to be incorporated into plant responses to increased sea-level rise. Scaling measurements of plant production up to the site level and across landscapes requires the integration of field measurements with remotely sensed measurements. Investigating remote sensing techniques of measuring carbon stock, I found that the presence of dense standing plant litter common in Pacific coast freshwater wetlands can hinder the ability to find a reliable way of measuring plant production remotely. Finally, I was able to successfully calibrate an ecogeomorphic mechanistic model for wetland accretion across four wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and examine potential wetland resiliency under a range of sea-level rise scenarios. At sea-level rise rates 100 cm/century and lower, wetlands remained vegetated. Once sea levels rise above 100 cm, marshes begin to lose ability to maintain elevation, and the presence of adjacent upland habitat becomes increasingly important for marsh migration. Results from this study emphasize that the wetland landscape in the bay is threatened with rising sea levels, and there are a limited number of wetlands that will be able to migrate to higher ground as sea levels rise. Despite these challenges, my dissertation presents a robust and new understanding of how tidal wetlands might respond to predicted climate change.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change written by Olav Slaymaker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A statement from the world's leading geomorphologists on the state of, and potential changes to, the environment.
Download or read book The Ecology of Humboldt Bay California written by Roger A. Barnhart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology written by M.P. Weinstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.
Download or read book San Francisco Bay Salt Marsh Vegetation Geography and Ecology written by Katherine Lillian Cecilia Cuneo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suisun Marsh written by Peter B. Moyle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of California's most remarkable wetlands, Suisun Marsh is the largest tidal marsh on the West Coast and a major feature of the San Francisco Estuary. This productive and unique habitat supports endemic species, is a nursery for native fishes, and is a vital link for migratory waterfowl. The 6,000-year-old marsh has been affected by human activity, and humans will continue to have significant impacts on the marsh as the sea level rises and cultural values shift in the century ahead. This study includes in-depth information about the ecological and human history of Suisun Marsh, its abiotic and biotic characteristics, agents of ecological change, and alternative futures facing this ecosystem.
Download or read book Wigeongrass Ruppia Maritima L written by Harold A. Kantrud and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of the Physical and Biological Performance of Tidal Marshes Contructed with Dredged Materials in San Francisco Bay California written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecosystems of California written by Harold Mooney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Download or read book Ecology Conservation and Restoration of Tidal Marshes written by Arnas Palaima and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay, the biggest estuary on the west coast of North America, was once surrounded by an almost unbroken chain of tidal wetlands, a fecund sieve of ecosystems connecting the land and the Bay. Today, most of these wetlands have disappeared under the demands of coastal development, and those that remain cling precariously to a drastically altered coastline. This volume is a collaborative effort of nearly 40 scholars in which the wealth of scientific knowledge available on tidal wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary is summarized and integrated. This book addresses issues of taxonomy, geomorphology, toxicology, the impact of climate change, ecosystem services, public policy, and conservation, and it is an essential resource for ecologists, environmental scientists, coastal policymakers, and researchers interested in estuaries and conserving and restoring coastal wetlands around the world.
Download or read book Soil vegetation Correlations in Wetlands and Adjacent Uplands of the San Francisco Bay Estuary California written by Anni L. Eicher and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Sierra to the Sea written by William S. Alevizon and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original report From the Sierra to the Sea: Ecological History of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed was a product of a three-year effort to develop a landscape level overview of the natural ecological structure, function and organization of the watershed, and the way it had changed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Technical review and contributions from government and water agencies helped produce a collaborative document that provided information on the historical ecological baseline in order to assist in what was envisioned at the time as the most ambitious restoration effort ever undertaken in the United States. We are proud of the fact that the original document is still used as an objective reference, and has provided a foundation and inspiration for similar but more intensively researched localized efforts by others in the Bay-Delta watershed. This 20th anniversary edition contains a new Afterword describing changes to the estuary and its watershed since the report was originally published in 1998.
