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The California Environmental Flows Framework: Meeting the Challenges of Developing a Large-Scale Environmental Flows Program.
Frontiers in Environmental Sciences. 9,
Stein et al-CEFF Development _Frontiers 2021 PUBLISHED.pdf (1.17 MB)
(2021). 
The use of umbrella fish species to provide a more comprehensive approach for freshwater conservation management.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 1-17.
Obester et al 2021.pdf (1.67 MB)
(2021). 
Food Web Fuel Differs Across Habitats and Seasons of a Tidal Freshwater Estuary.
Estuaries and Coasts. 188,
(2020). A functional flows approach to selecting ecologically relevant flow metrics for environmental flow applications.
River Research and Applications. 36(2), 318–324.
Yarnell et al. 2020 RRA (759.84 KB)
(2020). 
(2019).
River research and applications across borders.
River Research and Applications. early view online,
(2019). Strontium isotopes reveal ephemeral streams used for spawning and rearing by an imperilled potamodromous cyprinid Clear Lake hitch Lavinia exilicauda chi.
Marine and Freshwater Research. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF18264,
(2019). Associating metrics of hydrologic variability with benthic macroinvertebrate communities in regulated and unregulated snowmelt-dominated rivers.
Freshwater Biology. 63(8), 844-858.
(2018).
(2018). Habitat partitioning by native and non-native fishes and decapods in novel habitats of the upper San Francisco Estuary.
Biological Invasions.
(2017). Reservoir Operation Design.
The Handbook of Applied Hydrology.
(2017). Tools for sediment management in rivers.
Water for the Environment: Policy, Science, and Integrated Management.
(2017). Fish distribution in the cache slough complex of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during a drought.
IEP Newsletter.
(2016). Integrating Complex Economic and Hydrologic Planning Models: An Application for Drought Under Climate Change Analysis.
Water Resources and Economics.
(2016). Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession in Regulated Systems.
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 52, 723-736.
(2016). Pulsed flow wave attenuation on a regulated montane river.
River Research and Applications. 32(5), 1047-1058.
(2016). Adaptive management in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing.
The Water Sustainability Reader: Lessons from California for the 21st Century. 193-211.
(2015). The aquatic trophic ecology of Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary, California, during autumn in a wet year.
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 13(3),
(2015).
(2015). A Detailed Outline for Groundwater Sustainability Plans under California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
APPENDIX.pdf (64.75 KB)
(2015). 
Functional Flows in Modified Riverscapes: Hydrographs, Habitats and Opportunities.
BioScience. 65(9),
BioScience-2015-Yarnell-biosci_biv102.pdf (327.28 KB)
(2015).
(2015). 
(2013).
Hydropower Costs Of Environmental Flows And Climate Warming In California’s Upper Yuba River Watershed.
River Research and Applicatiions. 29(10), 1291-1305.
(2013). Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession.
137.
CEC_Recsn_Limb_Draft_Final_Report.pdf (8 MB)
Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession in Regulated Systems (AGU 2013 presentation) (1.87 MB)
(2013). 

Montane Meadows in the Sierra Nevada: Changing Hydroclimatic Conditions and Concepts for Vulnerability Assessment.
Center for Watershed Sciences Technical Report. 63.
Montane Meadows in the Sierra Nevada: Changing Hydroclimatic Conditions and Concepts for Vulnerability Assessment. CWS Report (4.08 MB)
(2013). 
Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in the Salinas River, California: a new record and historical perspectives.
California Fish and Game. 99(1), 55-59.
(2013). Stream Habitat Associations of the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana boylii): The Importance of Habitat Heterogeneity.
Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach. 193-212.
Chapter 11 in Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach (3.99 MB)
(2013). 
Transferability of habitat suitability criteria for a stream breeding frog (Rana boylii) in the Sierra Nevada, California.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 8(1), 88-103.
(2013). Dynamic flow modelling of riverine amphibian habitat with application to regulated flow management.
River Research and Applications. 28, 177-191.
(2012).
(2012).
(2012).
(2012). Water Management Adaptations to Prevent Loss of Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California under Climate Change .
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 138(5), 465-478.
chinook.pdf (2.46 MB)
(2012). 
(2011).
(2011).
Ecology and Management of the Spring Snowmelt Recession.
Bioscience. 60(2),
(2010).
(2010).
(2010). Modeling the Hydrology of Climate Change in California's Sierra Nevada for Subwatershed Scale Adaptation.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45(6),
(2009). Modeling the Hydrology of Climate Change in California's Sierra Nevada for Subwatershed Scale Adaptation.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45(6),
(2009).
(2009). El Agua en Mexico: Consecuencias de las politicas de intervencion en el sector.
Lecturas El Trimestre Economico 100. 100, 222.
(2008).
(2008).
(2007).
The influence of relative sediment supply on riverine habitat heterogeneity.
Geomorphology. 80, 310-324.
(2006). Historical and present distribution of Chinook salmon in the Central Valley drainage of California.
(Brown, R. L., Ed.).Contributions to the Biology of Central Valley Salmonids. 71-176.
(2001). Chinook Salmon in the California Central Valley: An Assessment.
Fisheries. 25(2), 6-20.
(2000). Historical Abundance and Decline of Chinook Salmon in the Central Valley Region of California.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 18(3), 487-521.
(1998). The role of adaptive management in restoring chinook salmon to the Tuolumne River.
(Wang, S. S. Y., & Carstens T., Ed.).Environmental and Coastal Hydraulics: Protecting the Aquatic Habitat. 557-562.
(1997).