Poised at the interface of rivers, ocean, atmosphere and dense human settlement, estuaries
are driven by a large array of natural and anthropogenic forces. San Francisco Bay …

Phytoplankton blooms are prominent features of biological variability in shallow coastal
ecosystems such as estuaries, lagoons, bays, and tidal rivers. Long‐term observation and …

Estuaries are biogeochemical hot spots because they receive large inputs of nutrients and
organic carbon from land and oceans to support high rates of metabolism and primary …

The microphytobenthos consists of unicellular eukaryotic algae and cyanobacteria that grow
within the upper several millimeters of illuminated sediments, typically appearing only as a …

We report measurements of seasonal variability in the C‐N stable isotope ratios of plants
collected across the habitat mosaic of San Francisco Bay, its marshes, and its tributary river …

Estuaries profoundly transform the large amounts of carbon delivered from rivers before their
transfer to the adjacent coastal zone. As a consequence of the complex biogeochemical …

Ammonia oxidation in marine and estuarine sediments plays a pivotal role in the cycling and
removal of nitrogen. Recent reports have shown that the newly discovered ammonia …

Populations of native and introduced aquatic organisms in the San Francisco
Bay/Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta Estuary (" Bay/Delta") have undergone significant …

All ecosystems are influenced by physical forcing. Estuarine ecosystems respond most
strongly on an interannual timescale to variability in freshwater flow. Several mechanisms for …

In his seminal 1961 paper 'The paradox of the plankton'Am Nat 95: 137-147, GE Hutchinson
asked why many species of phytoplankton can coexist while competing for a small number …