Research
Interests
Most of the research in my lab is connected within the aquatic ecosystem of the San Francisco Estuary. Our current research focuses on several main topics: mating success as a limit on population growth of zooplankton, interactions between physical dynamics of the estuary and the distribution and dynamics of planktonic organisms, the foodweb supporting delta smelt and other fish of the upper estuary, effects of introduced species, dynamics of winter run Chinook salmon, and effects of variation in freshwater flow and salinity. These programs have been funded by the Interagency Ecological Program ( IEP) for the San Francisco Estuary, the National Science Foundation, and the CALFED Bay Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program and Science Program. |
Selected Papers
Kimmerer, W.J., M.H. Nicolini, N. Ferm, and C. Peñalva. 2005. Chronic food limitation of egg production in populations of copepods of the genus Acartia in the San Francisco Estuary. Estuaries 28: 541-550.
Choi, K-H., W. Kimmerer, G. Smith, G.M. Ruiz, and K. Lion. 2005. Post-exchange zooplankton in ships ballast water coming to the San Francisco Estuary. Journal of Plankton Research 27: 707-714.
Kimmerer, W.J. 2005. Long-term changes in apparent uptake of silica in the San Francisco Estuary. Limnology and Oceanography 50: 793-798.
Kimmerer, W.J. S. Avent, S. M. Bollens, F. Feyrer, L. Grimaldo, P.B. Moyle, M. Nobriga, and T. Visintainer. 2005. Variability in length-weight relationships used to estimate biomass of estuarine fishes from survey data. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134: 481-495.
Kimmerer, W., D. Murphy, and P. Angermeier. 2005. A landscape-level model of the San Francisco Estuary and its watershed. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science [online serial]. Vol. 3, Issue 1 (February 2004), Article 2.
Fisher, K. and W. Kimmerer. 2004. Fractal distributions of temperature, salinity and fluorescence in spring 2001-2002 in south San Francisco Bay . In Novak, M.M. (Ed.). Thinking in Patterns: Fractals and Related Phenomena in Nature. World Scientific, Singapore.
Sommer, T.R., W. Harrell, A. Mueller-Solger, B.Tom, and W. Kimmerer. 2004. Effects of reach-scale hydrologic variation on the biota of channel and floodplain habitats of the Sacramento River, California , USA . Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 14:247-261.
Kimmerer, W.J. 2004. Open-Water Processes of the San Francisco Estuary: from physical forcing to biological responses. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science [online serial]. Vol. 2, Issue 1 (February 2004), Article 1.
Kimmerer, W.J. 2002. Physical, biological, and management responses to variable freshwater flow into the San Francisco estuary. Estuaries 25:1275-1290.
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. |
