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Stephanie Yelenik
Post Doc
Forest Ecosystems and Society
301H Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
- B.S., 1997, University of California, Berkeley
- M.S., 2000, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Ph.D., 2008, University of California, Santa Barbara
Community and ecosystem controls over plant succession; feedbacks between plant community dynamics and biogeochemical cycling; invasions biology; ecosystem restoration.
- Yelenik, S.G. and Levine, J.M. “Plant-soil feedbacks and native coastal sage shrub recolonization of exotic annual grasslands.” United States Department of Agriculture, National Research Initiative, 2005, $214,000
- Yelenik, S.G. and Levine, J.M. Re-establishment of native shrubs into California exotic annual grasslands: are ecosystem services returned? In review, Ecological Applications.
- Yelenik, S.G. and Levine, J.M. Native shrub recovery in exotic grasslands after non-native herbivore removal. In review, Journal of Applied Ecology.
- Hille Ris Lambers, J., Yelenik, S.G., Colman, B., and Levine, J.M. California annual grass invaders: the passengers, not drivers of change. In review, Ecology Letters.
- Yelenik, S.G., Stock, W.D., and Richardson, D.M. 2007. Functional group identity does not predict invader impacts: differential effects of nitrogen fixing exotic plants on ecosystem function. Biological Invasions 9:117-125.
- Levine, J.M., Pachepsky, E., Kendall, B., Yelenik, S.G., and Hille Ris Lambers, J. 2006. Plant-soil feedbacks and invasive spread. Ecology Letters 9:1005-1015.
- Levine, J.M., Adler, P.B., and Yelenik, S.G. 2004. A meta-analysis of biotic resistance to exotic plant invasions. Ecology Letters 7:975-989
- Yelenik, S.G., Stock, W.D., and Richardson, D.M. 2004. Ecosystem-level impacts of invasive Acacia saligna in the South African fynbos. Restoration Ecology 12:44-51.
- Yelenik, S.G., Stock, W.D., and Richardson, D.M. 2002. Fertilizing the fynbos. Velt and Flora 88(4):164.
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