ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This book is a revision of Zedler and 

 Nordby (1986). Printing was paid for by 

 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administration (NOAA), Office of Coastal 

 Zone Management, Sanctuaries and 

 Reserves Division. The 1986 version was 

 funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service (FWS) as one in their series of 

 "estuarine profiles." FWS also supported 

 an earlier "community profile" (Zedler 

 1982), which described our regional salt 

 marshes. 



Research funds for Tijuana Estuary 

 have come from the California Sea Grant 

 College and the California State Resources 

 Agency for a variety of projects, 

 beginning in 1976. Sea Grant-sponsored 

 research has in turn led to additional 

 projects that have had specific application 

 to a variety of management agencies. The 

 Sanctuaries and Reserves Division of NOAA 

 has funded monitoring programs and 

 supported graduate research on several 

 reserve management issues. The U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Navy 

 both funded work on habitat character- 

 istics for the endangered light-footed 

 clapper rail. The California Water 

 Resources Control Board, through funding 

 from the Environmental Protection 

 Agency's Water Quality Program, 

 supported studies of the estuary's 

 hydrological qualities and potential 

 impacts of wastewater discharge. 



Paul Jorgensen, Research Reserve 

 Manager called our attention to many of 

 the management problems at the estuary. 

 We owe the greatest debt to students and 

 colleagues, who have done so much of the 

 field work and provided so many of the 



ideas that contribute to our understanding 

 of Tijuana Estuary. In order of thesis 

 completion date, we acknowledge the 

 significant contributions of Ted Winfield, 

 Phil Williams, John Boland, Chris 

 Nordby, Jordan Covin, Pam Beare, Regina 

 Rudnicki, Peggy Fong, Lisa Wood, Brian 

 Fink, Abby White, Ted Griswold, Kendra 

 Swift, John Cantilli, Sue Rutherford, 

 Malgorzata Zalejko, George Vourlitis, Max 

 Busnardo, and Theresa Sinicrope. 



We thank Dra. Silvia Ibarra and 

 students from CICESE in Ensenada, Baja 

 California, for showing us less disturbed 

 wetlands in Baja California and providing 

 comparative data on Mexican salt marshes. 

 Several postdoctoral research associates, 

 R. Koenigs, W. Magdych M. Kentula, B. 

 Dubinsky, R. Langis, and J. Boland, and 

 colleagues at San Diego State University, 

 R. Gersberg, G. Cox, K. Williams, P. 

 Zedler, B. Nyden, S. Williams, C. Cooper, 

 J. Conway, D. Dexter, S. Hurlbert, P. 

 Kern, P. Pryde, R. Wright, and D. Stowe, 

 contributed their special expertise to the 

 information reported here. Field work by 

 J. Tiszler, E. Taylor, B. Espinoza, K. 

 Johnson, S. Snover, N. Warnock, D. 

 Parker-Chapman and P. Ashfield 

 documented estuarine resources. The 

 drawings by Donovan Mclntire made both 

 technical and artistic contributions. 



Without Donna Ross, this revision 

 would still be a collage of unformatted text 

 and figures. We also acknowledge with 

 gratitude the reviewers of the 1986 

 version (W. Ferren, P. Jorgensen, M. 

 Kentula, G. Kramer, S. Lockhart, C. Onuf, 

 E. Pendleton, and the late M. Quammen). 



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