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  1. Emerging Tools to Identify and Assess Impacts to Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    John Stella

  2. Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2025, Wiley

    John Stella

  3. Long‐term effectiveness monitoring of spatially patterned restoration methods in a riparian forest

    Article • Restoration Ecology, July 2025, Wiley

    John Stella

  4. Increased Groundwater Dependence of Riparian Vegetation in Response to Drought

    Article • Ecohydrology, July 2025, Wiley

    John Stella

  5. Groundwater and phenology data reveal vulnerability of riparian trees to drought

    Article • May 2025, openRxiv

    John Stella

  6. Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem

    Article • Ecological Applications, April 2025, Wiley

    John Stella

  7. The Ant and the Grasshopper: contrasting responses and behaviors to water stress of riparian trees along a hydroclimatic gradient

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    John Stella

  8. Quantifying restored riparian buffer delineation accuracy and detectability in multitemporal imagery

    Article • Ecological Engineering, January 2025, Elsevier

    John Stella

  9. The ant and the grasshopper: Contrasting responses and behaviors to water stress of riparian trees along a hydroclimatic gradient

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2024, Elsevier

    John Stella

  10. Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient

    Article • Ecohydrology, October 2024, Wiley

    John Stella

  11. Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs

    Article • Nature, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  12. Local socioeconomic factors predict urban forest structure and composition across neighborhoods in Syracuse, NY (USA)

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, May 2024, Elsevier

    John Stella

  13. A river runs through it: Robust automated mapping of riparian woodlands and land surface phenology across dryland regions

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, May 2024, Elsevier

    John Stella

  14. Establishing ecological thresholds and targets for groundwater management

    Article • Nature Water, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  15. Seasonal and Species‐Level Water‐Use Strategies and Groundwater Dependence in Dryland Riparian Woodlands During Extreme Drought

    Article • Water Resources Research, April 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    John Stella

  16. Distinct trait syndromes and plasticity maintain similar performance between seedlings populations of the riparian tree species Populus nigra L.

    Article • Environmental and Experimental Botany, February 2024, Elsevier

    John Stella

  17. Evapotranspiration regulates leaf temperature and respiration in dryland vegetation

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, August 2023, Elsevier

    John Stella

  18. Analyzing the impact of agricultural BMPs on stream nutrient load and biotic health in the Susquehanna-Chemung basin of New York

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, June 2023, Elsevier

    John Stella

  19. Modeling seasonal vegetation phenology from hydroclimatic drivers for contrasting plant functional groups within drylands of the Southwestern USA

    Article • Environmental Research Ecology, February 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    John Stella

  20. High resolution spatiotemporal patterns of flow at the landscape scale in montane non‐perennial streams

    Article • River Research and Applications, November 2022, Wiley

    John Stella

  21. A low cost, low power sap flux device for distributed and intensive monitoring of tree transpiration

    Article • HardwareX, October 2022, Elsevier

    John Stella

  22. Applying the “Goldilocks Rule” to Riparian Buffer Widths for Forested Headwater Streams across the Contiguous U.S.—How Much Is “Just Right”?

    Article • Forests, September 2022, MDPI AG

    John Stella

  23. Local groundwater decline exacerbates response of dryland riparian woodlands to climatic drought

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2022, Wiley

    John Stella

  24. Bringing the margin to the focus: 10 challenges for riparian vegetation science and management

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, July 2022, Wiley

    John Stella

  25. A Green New Balance: interactions among riparian vegetation plant traits and morphodynamics in alluvial rivers

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, April 2022, Wiley

    John Stella, Dr Andrew C Wilcox

  26. Phenological Classification and Atmospheric Drought Response of Riparian Vegetation in Drylands of the Southwestern United States

    Article • February 2022, Wiley

    John Stella

  27. Analyzing the Impact of Agricultural Bmps on Stream Nutrient Load and Biotic Health in the Susquehanna-Chemung Basin of New York

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    John Stella

  28. SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS OF FLOW IN MONTANE NON-PERENNIAL STREAMS

    Article • January 2022, Geological Society of America

    John Stella

  29. A dynamic riparian forest structure model for predicting large wood inputs to meandering rivers

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, September 2021, Wiley

    John Stella

  30. Interacting drivers and their tradeoffs for predicting denitrification potential across a strong urban to rural gradient within heterogeneous landscapes

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, September 2021, Elsevier

    John Stella

  31. Assessing climate change tolerance and the niche breadth-range size hypothesis in rare and widespread alpine plants

    Article • Oecologia, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  32. A brown wave of riparian woodland mortality following groundwater declines during the 2012–2019 California drought

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, July 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    John Stella

  33. Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, July 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    John Stella

  34. Can Understory Plant Composition and Richness Help Designate Riparian Management Zones in Mesic Headwater Forests of the Northeastern United States?

    Article • Journal of Forestry, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    John Stella

  35. Groundwater dependence of riparian woodlands and the disrupting effect of anthropogenically altered streamflow

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    John Stella

  36. Vegetation responses to climatic and geologic controls on water availability in southeastern Arizona

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    John Stella

  37. Long-term river management legacies strongly alter riparian forest attributes and constrain restoration strategies along a large, multi-use river

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, February 2021, Elsevier

    John Stella

  38. Stem size selectivity is stronger than species preferences for beaver, a central place forager

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, November 2020, Elsevier

    John Stella

  39. Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales

    Article • Hydrological Processes, October 2020, Wiley

    John Stella

  40. Local disturbance by muskrat, an ecosystem engineer, enhances plant diversity in regionally‐altered wetlands

    Article • Ecosphere, October 2020, Wiley

    John Stella

  41. Evaluation of the integrated riparian ecosystem response to future flow regimes on semiarid rivers in Colorado, USA

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, October 2020, Elsevier

    John Stella

  42. Onset and propagation of drought into soil moisture and vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 drought in Southern California

    Article • September 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    John Stella

  43. Divergence of riparian forest composition and functional traits from natural succession along a degraded river with multiple stressor legacies

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2020, Elsevier

    John Stella

  44. DETECTING RIPARIAN VEGETATION RESPONSES TO GROUNDWATER CHANGES USING SENTINEL SATELLITE IMAGERY AND CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING

    Article • January 2020, Geological Society of America

    John Stella

  45. Riparian Vegetation and Sediment Supply Regulate the Morphodynamic Response of an Experimental Stream to Floods

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, April 2019, Frontiers

    John Stella

  46. Multiple Stressors in Riparian Ecosystems

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    John Stella

  47. Can environmental flows moderate riparian invasions? The influence of seedling morphology and density on scour losses in experimental floods

    Article • Freshwater Biology, December 2018, Wiley

    John Stella

  48. Development of a carbon calculator tool for riparian forest restoration

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, October 2018, Wiley

    John Stella

  49. Socio-environmental implications of process-based restoration strategies in large rivers: should we remove novel ecosystems along the Rhône (France)?

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  50. What drives riparian vegetation encroachment in braided river channels at patch to reach scales? Insights from annual airborne surveys (Drôme River, SE France, 2005-2011)

    Article • Ecohydrology, August 2017, Wiley

    John Stella

  51. Impact of seasonal changes in stream metabolism on nitrate concentrations in an urban stream

    Article • Biodegradation, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  52. The long-term legacy of geomorphic and riparian vegetation feedbacks on the dammed Bill Williams River, Arizona, USA

    Article • Ecohydrology, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Andrew C Wilcox, John Stella

  53. The Biota of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Algae and Vascular Plants

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    John Stella

  54. Fluvial sediment supply and pioneer woody seedlings as a control on bar-surface topography

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Andrew C Wilcox, John Stella

  55. Climate change perils for dioecious plant species

    Article • Nature Plants, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  56. Hydrogeologic Processes Impacting Storage, Fate, and Transport of Chloride from Road Salt in Urban Riparian Aquifers

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    John Stella

  57. Fluvial sediment burial increases mortality of young riparian trees but induces compensatory growth response in survivors

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, April 2016, Elsevier

    John Stella

  58. Temporal variability in hydrology modifies the influence of geomorphology on wetland distribution along a desert stream: a commentary on Donget al. (2016)

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2015, Wiley

    John Stella

  59. Flow and scour constraints on uprooting of pioneer woody seedlings

    Article • Water Resources Research, November 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Andrew C Wilcox, John Stella

  60. Regional growth decline of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and its potential causes

    Article • Ecosphere, October 2015, Wiley

    John Stella

  61. When do plants modify fluvial processes? Plant-hydraulic interactions under variable flow and sediment supply rates

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, February 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Andrew C Wilcox, John Stella

  62. Ecogeomorphic feedbacks and flood loss of riparian tree seedlings in meandering channel experiments

    Article • Water Resources Research, December 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Andrew C Wilcox, John Stella

  63. Maintaining channel abandonment processes increases riparian plant diversity within fluvial corridors

    Article • Ecohydrology, September 2014, Wiley

    John Stella

  64. Shifting Climate Sensitivity and Contrasting Growth Trends inJuniperusSpecies Growing Together at Opposite Range Margins

    Article • Tree-Ring Research, July 2014, Tree-Ring Society

    John Stella

  65. Climate and local geomorphic interactions drive patterns of riparian forest decline along a Mediterranean Basin river

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2013, Elsevier

    John Stella

  66. 12.5 Riparian Vegetation and the Fluvial Environment: A Biogeographic Perspective

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    John Stella

  67. Riparian vegetation research in Mediterranean-climate regions: common patterns, ecological processes, and considerations for management

    Article • Hydrobiologia, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  68. Salinity tolerance and the decoupling of resource axis plant traits

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2012, Wiley

    John Stella

  69. Erratum to: Restoring Ecological Integrity in Highly Regulated Rivers: The Role of Baseline Data and Analytical References

    Article • Environmental Management, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  70. Contrasting water-uptake and growth responses to drought in co-occurring riparian tree species

    Article • Ecohydrology, June 2012, Wiley

    John Stella

  71. Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America

    Article • Climatic Change, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  72. Carbon isotope variation in shrub willow (Salix spp.) ring-wood as an indicator of long-term water status, growth and survival

    Article • Biomass and Bioenergy, January 2012, Elsevier

    John Stella

  73. Restoring Ecological Integrity in Highly Regulated Rivers: The Role of Baseline Data and Analytical References

    Article • Environmental Management, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  74. Global sensitivity analysis for complex ecological models: a case study of riparian cottonwood population dynamics

    Article • Ecological Applications, June 2011, Wiley

    John Stella

  75. The Role of Abandoned Channels as Refugia for Sustaining Pioneer Riparian Forest Ecosystems

    Article • Ecosystems, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  76. How do riparian woody seedlings survive seasonal drought?

    Article • Oecologia, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  77. Riparian Seedling Mortality from Simulated Water Table Recession, and the Design of Sustainable Flow Regimes on Regulated Rivers

    Article • Restoration Ecology, April 2010, Wiley

    John Stella

  78. Subsidy or stress? Tree structure and growth in wetland forests along a hydrological gradient in Southern Europe

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, April 2010, Elsevier

    John Stella

  79. Synchrony of Seed Dispersal, Hydrology and Local Climate in a Semi-arid River Reach in California

    Article • Ecosystems, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    John Stella

  80. The Greywacke Cover‐Up

    Article • Soil Survey Horizons, December 1998, Wiley

    John Stella