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G. Darrel Jenerette is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions spanning various subfields and topics within this area.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple subfields including global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, ecology, and soil science. This diverse approach supports their investigation into complex environmental systems and interactions.

Key research topics addressed by G. Darrel Jenerette include:

  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

The scientist's publication record features works in prominent venues such as Environmental Research Letters, SSRN Electronic Journal, Landscape Ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Global Change Biology. These journals highlight a focus on environmental research from multiple perspectives including ecological, chemical, and climate-related studies.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Beyond 'trees are good': Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry" (2020, AMBIO)
  • "Impacts of Soil NOx Emission on O3 Air Quality in Rural California" (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Small vegetated patches greatly reduce urban surface temperature during a summer heatwave in Adelaide, Australia" (2021, Landscape and Urban Planning)
  • "Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovations in methodology, design, and application" (2020, Landscape Ecology)
  • "Improved modelling of soil NOx emissions in a high temperature agricultural region: role of background emissions on NO2 trend over the US" (2021, Environmental Research Letters)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Peter M. Homyak, Holly Andrews, Peter C. Ibsen, Alexander H. Krichels, and Emma L. Aronson. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in environmental science investigations.

Best Publications

  • Analysis and simulation of land-use change in the central Arizona - Phoenix region, USA

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Jianguo Wu

  • Ecosystem services and urban heat riskscape moderation: water, green spaces, and social inequality in Phoenix, USA

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Sharon L. Harlan;William L. Stefanov;Chris A. Martin

  • Regional relationships between surface temperature, vegetation, and human settlement in a rapidly urbanizing ecosystem

    G. Darrel Jenerette;G. Darrel Jenerette;G. Darrel Jenerette;Sharon L. Harlan;Anthony Brazel;Nancy Jones

  • Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization: The case of the two fastest growing metropolitan regions in the United States

    Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;G. Darrel Jenerette;Alexander Buyantuyev;Alexander Buyantuyev;Charles L. Redman

  • The Urban Funnel Model and the Spatially Heterogeneous Ecological Footprint

    Matthew A. Luck;G. Darrel Jenerette;Jianguo Wu;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Micro-scale urban surface temperatures are related to land-cover features and residential heat related health impacts in Phoenix, AZ USA

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Sharon L. Harlan;Alexander Buyantuev;William L. Stefanov

  • Beyond 'trees are good': Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry.

    Lara A. Roman;Tenley M. Conway;Theodore S. Eisenman;Andrew K. Koeser

  • Effects of seasonal drought on net carbon dioxide exchange from a woody-plant-encroached semiarid grassland

    Russell L. Scott;G. Darrel Jenerette;Daniel L. Potts;Travis E. Huxman

  • Dependence of carbon sequestration on the differential responses of ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration to rain pulses in a semiarid steppe

    Shiping Chen;Guanghui Lin;Jianhui Huang;G. Darrel Jenerette

  • Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis

    Lara A. Roman;Hamil Pearsall;Theodore S. Eisenman;Tenley M. Conway

  • A global perspective on changing sustainable urban water supplies

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Larissa Larsen

  • Variation in the urban vegetation, surface temperature, air temperature nexus.

    Sheri A. Shiflett;Liyin L. Liang;Liyin L. Liang;Steven M. Crum;Gudina L. Feyisa

  • Carbon dioxide exchange in a semidesert grassland through drought‐induced vegetation change

    Russell L. Scott;Erik P. Hamerlynck;G. Darrel Jenerette;M. Susan Moran

  • The luxury of vegetation and the legacy of tree biodiversity in Los Angeles, CA

    Lorraine Weller Clarke;G. Darrel Jenerette;Antonio Davila

  • Hysteresis of soil moisture spatial heterogeneity and the "homogenizing" effect of vegetation

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Simone Fatichi;Simone Fatichi;G. Darrel Jenerette;Javier F. Espeleta

  • In the Shade of Affluence: The Inequitable Distribution of the Urban Heat Island

    Sharon L. Harlan;Anthony J. Brazel;G. Darrel Jenerette;Nancy S. Jones

  • Unusually high soil nitrogen oxide emissions influence air quality in a high-temperature agricultural region

    P. Y. Oikawa;C. Ge;J. Wang;J. R. Eberwein

  • Global analysis and simulation of land-use change associated with urbanization

    G. Darrel Jenerette;David Potere

  • Whole ecosystem metabolic pulses following precipitation events

    G. D. Jenerette;R. L. Scott;T. E. Huxman

  • Understanding preferences for tree attributes: the relative effects of socio-economic and local environmental factors

    Meghan L. Avolio;Diane E. Pataki;Stephanie Pincetl;Thomas W. Gillespie

  • The relative controls of temperature, soil moisture, and plant functional group on soil CO2 efflux at diel, seasonal, and annual scales

    Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Russell L. Scott;G. Darrel Jenerette;Travis E. Huxman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Diane E. Pataki
Diane E. Pataki Arizona State University
Stephanie Pincetl
Stephanie Pincetl University of California, Los Angeles
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Thomas W. Gillespie
Thomas W. Gillespie University of California, Los Angeles
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Meghan L. Avolio
Meghan L. Avolio Johns Hopkins University
Simone Fatichi
Simone Fatichi National University of Singapore
Yongfei Bai
Yongfei Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences

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