The health of pelagic systems and wetlands are ecologically linked through a variety of mechanisms, but the extent of that linkage appears to vary geographically, and is not well understood in Pacific Coast sites. Wetlands are the most vulnerable habitats in CA under a variety of climate change scenarios. With funding from CalFed, we will: 1) evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on SF Bay-Delta tidal wetlands, 2) improve our understanding of the linkage between these wetlands and the pelagic food web, especially fish populations, and 3) use this information to make predictions about potential effects of climate change on Bay-Delta fish populations. Lisa Schile will be working on this project for her dissertation research.
Collaborators
on this project include Tom Parker, John Calloway, Drew Talley.
