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Author(s): San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
2025
The Landscapes Scenario Planning Tool (LSPT) is a standardized, science-based resource for analyzing and comparing land-use scenarios in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh. The tool takes data from detailed landscape maps and calculates metrics related to…
Author(s): Lydia Vaughn | Steven Deverel | Stephanie Panlasigui | Judith Drexler | Marc Olds | Jose Diaz | Kendall Harris | James Morris | Letitia Grenier | April Robinson | Donna Ball
2024
In the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (Delta), widespread drainage of historical wetlands has led to extensive subsidence and peat carbon losses, as well as high ongoing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Large-scale wetland restoration and conversion to rice fields has the…
Author(s): James Morris | Judith Drexler | Lydia Vaughn | April Robinson
2022
Quantitative, broadly applicable metrics of resilience are needed to effectively manage tidal marshes into the future. Here we quantified three metrics of temporal marsh resilience: time to marsh drowning, time to marsh tipping point, and the probability of a regime shift,…
Author(s): Lydia Vaughn | Ellen Plane | Kendall Harris | April Robinson | Letitia Grenier
2022
The 2022 update to California’s climate change Scoping Plan incorporates management actions in the state’s forests, shrublands/chaparral, grasslands, croplands, developed lands, deltaic wetlands, and sparsely vegetated lands. Missing from this list are the tidally-influenced…
Author(s): James Cloern | Samuel Safran | Lydia Vaughn | April Robinson | Alison Whipple | Katharyn Boyer | Judith Drexler | Robert Naiman | James Pinckney | Emily Howe | Elizabeth Canuel | Letitia Grenier
2021
Humans are changing the Earth's surface at an accelerating pace, with significant consequences for ecosystems and their biodiversity. Landscape transformation has far-reaching implications including reduced net primary production (NPP) available to support ecosystems, reduced…
Author(s): Lydia Vaughn | Samuel Safran | April Robinson | Alison Whipple | Amy Richey | Letitia Grenier | James Cloern | Stephen Andrews | Katharyn Boyer | Judith Drexler | Emily Howe | Robert Naiman | Melissa Patten | James Pinckney
2020
This report describes the Delta Landscapes Primary Production project, which quantifies how landscape change in the Delta has altered the quantity and character of primary production. Combining historical and modern maps with simple models of production for five dominant…