An understanding of how fish respond to changes in their environment is necessary when restoring habitat to support native fish and to predict future species assemblages, likely outcomes for important native and non-native species, and the potential for invasion. We will review existing literature and summarize the temperature-dependent physiological tolerances and metabolic responses of fish resident in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (SSJD) to water quality parameters likely to be impacted by water management facilities and global climate change. The review will cover 58 species of fish (23 native). Each species account will be organized into adult, juvenile, larval, and egg tolerances. The water quality variables we intend to include are temperature, dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide, pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, and salinity (upper lethal tolerance). The report will also include graphical summaries for physiological tolerances: critical dissolved oxygen minima, thermal preference, critical thermal minima and maxima, incipient upper and lower lethal temperatures, and standard oxygen consumption rates.
