1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. Environmental setting of San Francisco Bay

   • T. J. Conomos
   • R. E. Smith
   • J. W. Gartner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

3. Time scales of circulation and mixing processes of San Francisco Bay waters

   • R. A. Walters
   • R. T. Cheng
   • T. J. Conomos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 36

4. Interannual variability in dissolved inorganic nutrients in northern San Francisco Bay estuary

   • David H. Peterson
   • Richard E. Smith
   • Laurence E. Schemel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 58

5. Gas exchange in San Francisco Bay

   • Blayne Hartman
   • Douglas E. Hammond

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 68

6. Benthic fluxes in San Francisco Bay

   • Douglas E. Hammond
   • Christopher Fuller
   • Stephen W. Hager

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 90

7. Temporal fluctuations in grain size, organic materials and iron concentrations in intertidal surface sediment of San Francisco Bay

   • Elizabeth A. Thomson-Becker
   • Samuel N. Luoma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 107

8. Temporal fluctuations of silver, copper and zinc in the bivalve Macoma balthica at five stations in South San Francisco Bay

   • Samuel N. Luoma
   • Daniel Cain
   • Christopher Johansson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 120

9. Time scales of change in the San Francisco Bay benthos

   • Frederic H. Nichols
   • Janet K. Thompson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 138

10. The distribution and temporal dynamics of the estuarine macroalgal community of San Francisco Bay

    • Michael N. Josselyn
    • John A. West

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 152

11. Temporal dynamics of estuarine phytoplankton: A case study of San Francisco Bay

    • James E. Cloern
    • Brian E. Cole
    • Andrea E. Alpine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 176

12. Seasonal cycles of zooplankton from San Francisco Bay

    • Julie W. Ambler
    • James E. Cloern
    • Anne Hutchinson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 197

13. Seasonal and interannual variation in distribution and population abundance of the shrimp Crangon franciscorum in San Francisco Bay

    • Susan E. Hatfield

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 210

14. Distribution and abundance of fishes in the San Francisco Bay estuary between 1980 and 1982

    • Charles Armor
    • Perry L. Herrgesell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 227

15. Time scales and mechanisms of estuarine variability, a synthesis from studies of San Francisco Bay

    • James E. Cloern
    • Frederic H. Nichols

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 237