摘要: 1. Environmental setting of San Francisco Bay.- 2. Time scales circulation and mixing processes Bay waters.- 3. Interannual variability in dissolved inorganic nutrients Northern Estuary.- 4. Gas exchange 5. Benthic fluxes 6. Temporal fluctuations grain size, organic materials iron concentrations intertidal surface sediment 7. silver, copper zinc the bivalve Macoma balthica at five stations South 8. change benthos.- 9. The distribution temporal dynamics estuarine macroalgal community 10. phytoplankton: A case study 11. Seasonal cycles zooplankton from 12. interannual variation population abundance shrimp Crangon franciscorum 13. Distribution fishes estuary between 1980 1982.- 14. mechanisms variability, a synthesis studies Bay.