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Alber, M.  2002.  A conceptual model of estuarine freshwater inflow management.  Estuaries 25(6B):1426-1261.
Armor, C., R. Baxter, B. Bennett, R. Breuer, M. Chotkowski, P. Coulston, D. Denton, B. Herbold, K. Larsen, M. Nobriga, K. Rose, T. Sommer, and M. Stacey. 2005. Interagency Ecological Program synthesis of 2005 work to evaluate the Pelagic Organism Decline (POD) in the upper San Francisco Estuary.  Available at: http://www.science.calwater.ca.gov/workshop/workshop_pod.shtml.
Bao, Y. and L.W. Mays.  1994a.  New methodology for optimization of freshwater inflows to estuaries (this document is included in the record for this proceeding but is not available from the State Water Board’s website).  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 120(2):199-217.
Bao, Y. and L.W. Mays.  1994b.  Optimization of Freshwater Inflows to Lavaca-Tres Palacios, Texas, Estuary (this document is included in the record for this proceeding but is not available from the State Water Board’s website).  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 120(2):218-236.
Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) draft report, (December 2008), Technical Study #2: Evaluation of North Delta Migration Corridors: Yolo Bypass, Bay Delta Conservation Plan
Beechie, T., G. Pess, and P. Roni. 2008. Setting river restoration priorities: a review of approaches and general protocol for identifying and prioritizing actions. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 28 (3): 891-905.
Bennett, W.A., D.J. Ostrach, and D.E. Hinton. 1995. Larval Striped Bass Condition in a Drought-stricken Estuary: Evaluating Pelagic Food Web Limitation. Ecological Applications 5:680-692. 
Bennett, W.A. and P.B. Moyle. 1996. Where have all the fishes gone?  Factors producing fish declines in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Pages 519-542 in San Francisco Bay: the Ecosystem. J.T. Hollibaugh, editor. Pacific Division, American Association for Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California.
Bennett, W.A., J.A. Hobbs, and S.J. Teh. 2006. Delta smelt growth and survival during the recent pelagic organism decline: what causes them summertime blues? CALFED Science Conference, October 23-25, 2006, Sacramento, CA. Abstract available at: http://sciconf.abag.ca.gov/conferences/abstract_view_01a.php.
Booth, E., J. Mount, and J. Viers.  2006.  Hydrologic Variability of the Cosumnes River Floodplain.  San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 4(2) [September 2006]. Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol4/iss2/art2
Brown, L.R. 2003. Will tidal wetland restoration enhance populations of native fishes? San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 1, Article 2. Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol1/iss1/art2
Brown, L.R and J.T. May. 2006. Variation in spring nearshore resident fish species composition and life histories in the Lower Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed and Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 4. Article 1. Available at: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/09j597dn?query=Brown,%20L.R.
Brown, L. R., and D. Michniuk. 2007. Littoral fish assemblages of the alien-dominated Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 1980-1983 and 2001-2003. Estuaries and Coasts 30:186-200.
Brown, L.R., W. Kimmerer, and R. Brown. 2008. Managing water to protect fish: a review of California’s Environmental Water Account, 2001-2005. Environmental Management DOI 10.1007/s00267-008-9213-4 Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u4022223x2181287/fulltext.pdf
Bunn, S.E. and A.H. Arthington. 2002. Basic Principles and Ecological Consequences of Altered Flow Regimes for Aquatic Biodiversity. Environmental Management 30(4):492-507.
Burau, J.R.  2007.  “DRERIP Hydrodynamic/Transport Conceptual Model”, draft report dated 12/20/2007.
Burau, J.R. 2008. North Delta Salmon Outmigration Study, Preliminary Results from Night Closures of the DCC - Draft Report.
CALFED Bay-Delta Program.  2000.  Strategic plan for ecosystem restoration.  Sacramento, CA.
Cloern, J.E. 2007. Habitat connectivity and ecosystem productivity: implications from a simple model. American Naturalist 169:E21-E33.
Contra Costa Water District.  2010.  Historical Fresh Water and Salinity Conditions in the Western Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay: a summary of historical reviews, reports, analyses, and measurements.  CCWD, Water Resources Department, Concord, CA.  Technical Memorandum WR10-001.  138 pp.
Dege, M. and L.R. Brown. 2004. Effect of outflow on spring and summertime distribution and abundance of larval and juvenile fishes in the upper San Francisco Estuary. Am. Fish. Soc. Symposium 39: 49-65.
Delta Risk Management Strategy (DRMS). 2007. Program of the Department of Water Resources. December 2009.  Available at: http://www.water.ca.gov/floodmgmt/dsmo/sab/drmsp/ 
Department of Water Resources (DWR).  2006.  California Central Valley Unimpaired Flow Data, Fourth Edition, Bay-Delta Office, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.
Department of Water Resources.  DAYFLOW Program.  Available at: http://www.water.ca.gov/dayflow/  
Drinkwater, K.F. and K.T. Frank. 1994. Effects of river regulation and diversion on marine fish and invertebrates. Aquatic Conservation: Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems. 4:135-151.
Feyrer, F. 2004. Ecological segregation of native and alien larval fish assemblages in the southern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Pages 67-80 in F. Feyrer, L.R. Brown, R.L. Brown, and J.J. Orsi, editors. Early Life History of Fishes in the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 39, Bethesda, Maryland.
Feyrer, F. and M.P. Healey. 2003. Fish community structure and environmental correlates in the highly altered southern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Environmental Biology of Fishes 66(2):123-132.
Feyrer, F., T. Sommer, and R. Baxter. 2005. Spatial-temporal distribution and habitat associations of age-0 splittail in the lower San Francisco Estuary watershed. Copeia 2005:159-168.
Feyrer, F.T., T. Sommer and W. Harrell. 2006a. Importance of flood dynamics versus intrinsic physical habitat in structuring fish communities: Evidence from two adjacent engineered floodplains on the Sacramento River, California. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26(2):408-417.
Feyrer, F., T. Sommer, and W. Harrell. 2006b. Managing floodplain inundation for native fish: production dyanmics of age-0 splittail (Pogonichtys macrolepidotus) in California's Yolo Bypass. Hydrobiologia 573: 213-226.
Feyrer, F., M.L. Nobriga, T.R. Sommer. 2007. Multidecadal trends for three declining fish species: habitat patterns and mechanisms in the San Francisco Estuary, California, USA. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 64:723-734.
Feyrer, F., T. Sommer, and J. Hobbs. 2007. Living in a dynamic environment: variability in life history traits of age-0 splittail in tributaries of San Francisco Bay. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1393-1405.
Feyrer, F., K. Newman, M.L. Nobriga, and T.R.Sommer. In revision. Modeling the effects of future freshwater flow on the abiotic habitat of an imperiled estuarine fish. Manuscript submitted to Estuaries and Coasts.
Flannery, M.S., E.B. Peebles and R.T. Montgomery.  2002.  A Percent-of-flow Approach for Managing Reductions of Freshwater Inflows from Unimpounded Rivers to Southwest Florida Estuaries.  Estuaries 6(6B):1318-1332.
Flannery, M.S., X. Chen, M. Heyl, A. Munson and M. Dachsteiner. 2008.  The Determination of Minimum Flows for the Lower Alafia River Estuary, Southwest Florida Water Management District Report.
Fleenor, W., E. Hanak, J. Lund, and J. Mount. 2008. Delta hydrodynamics and water quality with future conditions. Appendix C. in Lund J., Hanak, E., Fleenor, W., Bennett, W., Howitt, R., Mount, J., and Moyle, P., Comparing futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA. 1-44.  Available at: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/other/708EHR_appendixC.pdf
Folke, C., S. Carpenter, B. Walker, M. Scheffer, T. Elmquist, L. Gunderson, and C.S. Holling. 2004. Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics 35:557-581.
Graham, N.E., and M.K. Hughes. 2007. Reconstructing the Mediaeval low stands of Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California, USA. The Holocene 17(8), 1197-1210.
Grimaldo, L.F., T. Sommer, N. Van Ark, G. Joes, E. Hoilland, P.B. Moyle, B. Herbold, and P. Smith.  2009.  Factors affecting fish entrainment into massive water diversions in a freshwater tidal estuary: Can fish losses be managed? North American Journal of Fisheries Management 29:1253-1270.
Guerin, M., G. Gartrell and R. Denton. 2006. Linkages between fall salinity, Delta outflow and delta smelt population decline. CALFED Science Conference, October 23- 25, 2006, Sacramento, CA. Abstract available at: http://sciconf.abag.ca.gov/conferences/abstract_view_01a.php.
Harrell, W.C., and T.R. Sommer. 2003. Patterns of Adult Fish Use on California’s Yolo Bypass Floodplain. California riparian systems: Processes and floodplain management, ecology, and restoration. Pages 88-93 in P.M. Faber, editor of 2001 Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference Proceedings, Riparian Habitat Joint Venture, Sacramento, California.
Harrell, W.C., T.R. Sommer, and F. Feyrer. 2009. Fish migration and residency in a large river floodplain of the Sacramento River, California.  Draft Paper.
Hart, B.T. and C.A Pollino.  2009. Bayesian modelling for risk-based environmental water allocation, Waterlines Report Series No. 14, February 2009, National Water Commission, Canberra, Australia.
Hauenstein, E., and C Ramirez. 1986. The influence of salinity on the distribution of Egeria densa in the Valdivia river basin, Chile. Arch. Hydrobiol. 107:511-519.
Healey, M.C., M.D. Dettinger, and R.B. Norgaard, eds.  2008.  The State of Bay-Delta Science, 2008.  CALFED Science Program, Sacramento, CA: 174 pp.
Henson, S.S., D.S. Ahearn, R.A. Dahlgren, E. Van Nieuwenhuyse, K.W. Tatec, and W.E. Fleenor. 2007. Water Quality Response to a Pulsed-Flow Event on the Mokelumne River, California. River Research And Applications 23(2):185–200.
Hobbs, J.A., Q. Yin, J. Burton-Hobbs, and W.A. Bennett. 2005. Retrospective determination of natal habitats for an estuarine fish with otolith strontium isotope ratios. Journal of Freshwater and Marine Research 56(5):655-660.
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Hughes, R.M., J.N. Rinne, and B. Calamusso. 2005. Historical changes in large river fish assemblages of the Americas: a synthesis. American Fisheries Society Symposium 45:603-612.
Jager, H.I. and K.A. Rose. 2003.  Designing Optimal Flow Patterns for Fall Chinook Salmon in a Central Valley, California, River.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:1–21.
Jassby, A.D., W.J. Kimmerer, S.G. Monismith, C. Armor, J.E. Cloern, T.M. Powell, J.R. Schubel, and T.J. Vendlinski. 1995. Isohaline position as a habitat indicator for estuarine populations. Ecological Applications 5:272-289.
Jassby, A.D., and E.E. Van Nieuwenhuyse. 2005. Low dissolved oxygen in an estuarine channel (San Joaquin River, California): Mechanisms and models based on long-term time series. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 3(2):1–33.
Kelley, R. 1989. Battling the inland sea.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 395 pp.
Kimmerer, W.J. 2002. Effects of freshwater flow on abundance of estuarine organisms: physical effects or trophic linkages? Marine Ecology Progress Series 243:39-55. 
Kimmerer, W.J. 2004. Open water processes of the San Francisco Estuary: from physical forcing to biological processes. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science [Internet] 2(1).  Available at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol2/iss1/art1
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Kimmerer, W.J., E.S. Gross, and M.L. MacWilliams. 2009. Is the response of estuarine nekton to freshwater flow in the San Francisco Estuary explained by variation in habitat volume? Estuaries and Coasts 32(2):375-389. 
King, J., and D. Louw. 1998. Instream flow assessments for regulated rivers in South Africa using the Building Block Methodology. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management 1(2):109-124.
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Kohlhorst, D.W., L.W. Botsford, J.S. Brennan, and G.M. Caillet. 1991. Aspects of the structure and dynamics of an exploited central California population of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Acipenser, P. Williot., Ed. CEMAGREF Publ., 277-293.
Lehman, P. W., J. Sevier, J. Giulianotti, and M. Johnson. 2004. Sources of oxygen demand in the lower San Joaquin River, California. Estuaries 27(3):405–418.
Lehman, P. W., G. Boyer, C. Hall, S. Waller, and K. Gehrts. 2005. Distribution and toxicity of a new colonial Microcystis aeruginosa bloom in the San Francisco Bay Estuary, California. Hydrobiologia 541:87-99.
Lehman, P. W., T. Sommer and L. Rivard. 2008. The influence of floodplain habitat on the quantity and quality of riverine phytoplankton carbon produced during the flood season in San Francisco Estuary. Aquatic Ecology 42(3):376-378.
Lehman, P.W., G. Boyer, M. Satchwell, and S. Waller. 2008. The Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Seasonal Variation of Microcystis Cell Density and Microcystins Concentration in the San Francisco Estuary. Hydrobiologia 600:187-204.
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Lopez, C.B., J.E. Cloern, T.S. Schraga, A.J. Little, L.V. Lucas, J.K. Thompson and J.R. Burau. 2006. Ecological values of shallow-water habitats: implications for the restoration of disturbed ecosystems. Ecosystems 9: 422-440.
Lucas, L. V., J. R. Koseff, J. E. Cloern, S. G. Monismith, and J. K. Thompson. 1999a. Processes governing phytoplankton blooms in estuaries. I: The local production-loss balance. Marine Ecology Progress Series 187:1-15.
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Lucas, L. V., J. E. Cloern, J. K. Thompson, and N. E. Monsen. 2002. Functional variability of habitats within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Restoration implications.  Ecological Applications 12:1528–1547.
Lucas, L.V., D.M. Sereno, J.R. Burau, T.S. Schraga, C.B. Lopez, M.T. Stacey, K.V. Parchevsky and V.P. Parchevsky. 2006. Intradaily variability of water quality in a shallow tidal lagoon: mechanisms and implications. Estuaries and Coasts 29:711-730.
Lucas, LV., J.K. Thompson, and L.R. Brown. 2009. Why are diverse relationships observed between phytoplankton biomass and transport time? Limnology and Oceangraphy 54:381-390.
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Lund, J., E. Hanak, W. Fleenor, R. Howitt, J. Mount, and P. Moyle. 2007. Envisioning futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA. 284pp. 
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Matern, S.A., P.B. Moyle and L.C. Pierce. 2002. Native and alien fishes in a California estuarine marsh: twenty-one years of changing assemblages. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:797-816. 
Mattson, R.A.  2002.  A resource-based framework for establishing freshwater inflow requirements for the Suwannee River Estuary.  Estuaries 25(6B):1333-1342.
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Moyle, P.B., R.D. Baxter, T.R. Sommer, T.C. Foin, and S.A. Matern. 2004. Biology and population dynamics of Sacramento splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) in the San Francisco Estuary: a review. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 2(2), Article 3.
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