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John C. Stella
Assistant Professor

344 Illick Hall
One Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210
(315) 470-4902
stella@esf.edu

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Highest Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management), 2005

Areas of Study

Riparian and stream ecology; plant ecohydrology and dendroecology; aridland and Mediterranean ecosystems; river corridor restoration.

Courses Taught

• Watershed Ecology and Management (FOR 442/642, Fall)
• Restoration Ecology (FOR 607, Fall of even years)
• Quantitative Methods and Models in R (FOR 796/EFB 796, Fall of odd years)
• Cross-disciplinary Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes (FOR 797, Spring)
• Seminar on Climate Change Effects on Natural Resources (FOR 797)

Selected Publications (*indicates student author)

Singer, M.B., J.C. Stella, S. Dufour, L.B. Johnstone*, H. Piégay, R.J.S. Wilson and. (in review) Contrasting water uptake and growth responses to drought in co-occurring riparian tree species

Eallonardo, A. S.*, D.J. Leopold, J.D. Fridley and J.C. Stella. (in review) The salinity tolerance axis and other functional drivers of inland salt marsh assembly

Beier C.M., Stella J.C., Dovciak M., McNulty S.A. (in review). Local climatic drivers of changes in ice phenology on high elevation lakes in the Adirondack Mountains, New York.

Schifman, L.A.*, J.C. Stella, M. Teece and T.A. Volk. 2011. Plant growth and water stress response of hybrid willow (Salix spp.) among sites and years in central New York. Biomass & Bioenergy. Published online 16 Nov. 2011; doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.10.042 [pdf]

Stella, J.C., M.K. Hayden*, J.J. Battles, H. Piégay, S. Dufour, and A.K. Fremier. 2011. The role of abandoned channels as refugia for sustaining pioneer riparian forest ecosystems. Ecosystems 14: 776-790. [pdf]

Harper, E.B., J.C. Stella, A.K. Fremier. 2011. Global sensitivity analysis for complex ecological models: a case study of riparian cottonwood population dynamics. Ecological Applications 21: 1225-1240. DOI:10.1890/10-0506.1 [pdf]

Stella, J.C., and J.J. Battles. 2010. How do riparian woody seedlings survive seasonal drought? Oecologia 164:579–590. DOI 10.1007/s00442-010-1657-6 [pdf]

Stella, J.C., J.J. Battles, J.R. McBride, B.K. Orr. 2010. Riparian seedling mortality from simulated water table recession, and the design of sustainable flow regimes on regulated rivers. Restoration Ecology 18: 284-294. DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00651.x [pdf]

Rodríguez-González, P.M., J.C. Stella, F. Campelo, T. Ferreira, A. Albuquerque. 2010. Subsidy or stress? Tree structure and growth in wetland forests along a hydrological gradient in southern Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 2015–2025. [pdf]

Stella, J.C., J.J. Battles, B.K. Orr, J.R. McBride. 2006. Synchrony of seed dispersal, hydrology and local climate in a semi-arid river reach in California. Ecosystems 9:1200-1214. [pdf] [1]

Stella, J.C., J.C. Vick, B.K. Orr. 2004. Riparian vegetation dynamics on the Merced River. The Wilderness Society Riparian Floodplains Conference Proceedings.Sacramento, California. March 2001.[pdf] [2]

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