Implications for Future Survival of Delta Smelt from Four Climate Change Scenarios for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 754-774

  Brown, Larry R ^a   Bennett, William A ^b   Wagner, R Wayne ^c   Morgan King, Tara ^a   Knowles, Noah ^d   Feyrer, Frederick ^e   Schoellhamer, David H ^a   Stacey, Mark T ^c   Dettinger, Michael ^f  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c Univ of California   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Delta; Delta smelt; Estuary; Hypomesus transpacificus; Sacramento San Joaquin Delta; San Francisco Estuary

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; SALINITY; SURVIVAL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

HYPOMESUS TRANSPACIFICUS;

EID: 84878684877     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9585-4     Document Type: Article

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