SFEWS: Traditional knowledge and current science inform conservation and preservation practices in the Delta

This edition of SFEWS (Volume 23, Issue 2) includes research on integrating traditional knowledge with science in the Delta, a framework for multiple-benefit conservation in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, thermal stress impacts on aquatic species, genetic assessments of juvenile Chinook salmon in floodplains, conservation strategies for the endangered soft salty bird’s-beak, and sediment transport in tidal salt marshes.

ESSAY

Changing Paradigms of Knowledge Production: Interweaving Traditional Knowledge and Predominant Science in the Delta
Xoco Shinbrot, Jill Harris, Aaron Angel, Tricia Lee, Eva Bush, Morgan Chow, Dylan Stern
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art1

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Multiple-Benefit Conservation in Practice: A Framework for Quantifying Multidimentional Effects of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta
Kristen Dybala, Matthew Reiter, Catherine Hickey, Thomas Gardali
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art2

Thermal Stress and Suitability for Aquatic Species in the San Francisco Estuary
Catarina Pien, Rosemary Hartman, Eva Bush, Peggy, Lehman, Brittany Davis
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art3

Genetic Assessment of Floodplain Habitat Use by Juvenile Chinook Salmon
Sara Hugentobler, Louise J. Conrad, Alisha Goodbla, Ted Sommer, Mariah Meek
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art4

Combining Ecological and Genomic Diversity Surveys to Inform Conservation and Restoration of an Endangered Wetland Plant, Soft Salty Bird’s-Beak
Amy G. Vandergast, Scott F. Jones, Lyndsay L. Rankin, McKenna L. Bristow, Dustin A. Wood, Karen Thorne
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art5

RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

Marsh Sediment in Translation: A Review of Sediment Transport Across a Natural Tidal Marsh in Northern San Francisco Bay
Madeline Foster–Martinez, Matthew Ferner, John Callaway, Brenda Goeden, Jessica Lacy
https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2025v23iss2art6