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[7]Publications
Papers in refereed journals
* Indicates student author.
Singer, M.B., J.C. Stella, S. Dufour, L.B. Johnstone*, H. Piégay, R.J.S. Wilson and. (in revision) 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 press. Local climatic drivers of ice cover changes on montane lakes at the boreal-temperate ecotone. Climatic Change
Schifman, L.A.*, J.C. Stella, M. Teece and T.A. Volk. 2012. Plant growth and water stress response of hybrid willow (Salix spp.) among sites and years in central New York. Biomass & Bioenergy 36: 316-326 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. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9446-6 [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. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2010.02.012 [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. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0138-y [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]
Stella, J.C. 1998. The Greywacke Cover-up. Soil Survey Horizons 39(4): 127-130.
Book chapters
Bendix, J., and J.C. Stella. (in press). Riparian Vegetation and the Fluvial Environment: A Biogeographic Perspective. In Treatise on Geomorphology 12: Ecogeomorphology (D. Butler and C. Hupp, Eds.). Elsevier, San Diego.[pdf of proof]
Manuscripts in preparation
Dufour, S., M.K. Hayden*, J.C. Stella, H. Piégay, J.J. Battles. (in preparation, Freshwater Biology) Composition and diversity patterns of terrestrial vegetation colonizing abandoned channels along a gravel bed meandering river (Sacramento, USA).
Stella, J.C., J. Riddle*, H. Piégay, M. Gagnage*, M-L. Trémolo. (in prep). Multi-scale drivers of riparian poplar tree growth along a Mediterranean river.
Harrison, A.M.*, J.C. Stella, S. McNulty and J. Frair. (in prep). Landscape factors affecting long-term site occupancy by beaver in the Adirondack Mountains, NY
Stella. J.C., Z.E. Diggory, J.J. Battles and B.K. Orr. (in prep.) Survival and growth of riparian trees planted on floodplain dredger spoils along the Merced River, CA.
Piégay, H., M.B. Singer and J.C. Stella. (in prep). Downstream spatio-temporal changes in meander rates and vegetation dynamics following dam construction on the Sacramento River, CA (USA).
Selected technical publications
Stillwater Sciences. 2006. Restoring recruitment processes for riparian cottonwoods and willows: a field-calibrated predictive model for the lower San Joaquin Basin. Prepared for CALFED Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program, Sacramento, California. Prepared by Stillwater Sciences and Dr. J.C. Stella, in conjunction with Dr. J.J. Battles and Dr. J.R. McBride, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley. Download Brochure | Download Full Report (PDF) [3]
Stillwater Sciences. 2006. Merced River Ranch revegetation experiment. Prepared by Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, California, for CALFED, Sacramento, California. Download (PDF) [4]
Stillwater Sciences. 2002. Merced River corridor restoration plan. Prepared by Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, California for CALFED Bay-Delta Program, Sacramento, California. Download (PDF) [5]
Stillwater Sciences. 2001. Merced River Restoration Plan Phase II. Volume II: Baseline evaluations; geomorphic and riparian vegetation investigations. Prepared by Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, California for CALFED Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program, Sacramento, California. Download (PDF) [6]
Research features
Research featured in Forests Round the Bend, a special issue on riparian restoration efforts on the Sacramento River. 2003. Science-In-Action Newsletter, pp. 4 – 9. CALFED Bay-Delta Program. Sacramento, CA. Download (PDF) [7]