Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5097494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Esperón‐Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3649-2134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Soil health in a conflict-affected area
Armed conflict accelerates soil and vegetation degradation, but field assessments and monitoring are often only possible at a later stage and/or indirectly, for example, through remote sensing data. We used the Dynamic World v1, a land-cover open-source dataset derived from Sentinel-2 imagery, to quantify land-cover change in Gaza (Palestinian territories) between September 2023 and September 2025. After cloud/shadow masking and 10 m spatial esti…
Limitations of quantified rules in urban forestry
The Onto-Political Dilemmas of Urban Forest Governance
Urban forest planning, conservation, and governance often rely on data generated through positivist research paradigms, producing insights and decisions that are not easily accessible or meaningful to diverse publics. These gaps in understanding emerge across the spectrum of governance – from top-down institutional and political structures to grassroots, community-led practices of care. From a critical forest studies perspective, such tensions ar…
Understanding urban tree heat and drought stress by tracking growth and recovery following an extreme year
An extreme summer in Sydney, Australia decreased urban tree growth by 64%. • Only small urban trees surrounded by impervious surfaces had severe drought stress. • Exotic species and trees with > 50 % crown dieback had slower growth recovery. • Growth recovery after the extreme summer was more related to sublethal heat stress. • Monitoring tree water access will help identify species vulnerable to urban heat. Most cities are likely to experience h…
Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’
Global trends in urban forest irrigation
Urban forests are critical for climate adaptation and liveability, but effective irrigation management—key to their sustainability—remains poorly documented at the global scale. This study addresses this critical knowledge gap by analysing urban forest irrigation practices across 109 cities in 21 countries, offering one of the first global assessments of irrigation approaches, challenges, and opportunities. Using survey data, we examined water so…
Climate and socio-economic drivers of urban tree abundance, richness and composition in Australian cities
Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale
Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature of the warmest month, MTWM; precipitat…
Commentary
Recent advances in data science and urban environmental health research utilise large-scale databases (100s-1000s of cities) to explore the complex interplay of urban characteristics such as city form and size, climate, mobility, exposure, and environmental health impacts. Cities are still hotspots of air pollution and noise, suffer urban heat island effects and lack of green space, which leads to disease and mortality burdens preventable with be…
Hot cities
Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure
Using climate analogues and vulnerability metrics to inform urban tree species selection in a changing climate
Socio-economic vulnerability to climate change in the central mountainous region of eastern Mexico
Socio-economic vulnerability to climate change in the central mountainous region of eastern Mexico
Using climate analogues and vulnerability metrics to inform urban tree species selection in a changing climate
Urban tree inventories as a tool to assess tree growth and failure
Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale
Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature of the warmest month, MTWM; precipitat…
Commentary
Recent advances in data science and urban environmental health research utilise large-scale databases (100s-1000s of cities) to explore the complex interplay of urban characteristics such as city form and size, climate, mobility, exposure, and environmental health impacts. Cities are still hotspots of air pollution and noise, suffer urban heat island effects and lack of green space, which leads to disease and mortality burdens preventable with be…
Hot cities
Understanding urban tree heat and drought stress by tracking growth and recovery following an extreme year
An extreme summer in Sydney, Australia decreased urban tree growth by 64%. • Only small urban trees surrounded by impervious surfaces had severe drought stress. • Exotic species and trees with > 50 % crown dieback had slower growth recovery. • Growth recovery after the extreme summer was more related to sublethal heat stress. • Monitoring tree water access will help identify species vulnerable to urban heat. Most cities are likely to experience h…
Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’
Global trends in urban forest irrigation
Urban forests are critical for climate adaptation and liveability, but effective irrigation management—key to their sustainability—remains poorly documented at the global scale. This study addresses this critical knowledge gap by analysing urban forest irrigation practices across 109 cities in 21 countries, offering one of the first global assessments of irrigation approaches, challenges, and opportunities. Using survey data, we examined water so…
Climate and socio-economic drivers of urban tree abundance, richness and composition in Australian cities
Soil health in a conflict-affected area
Armed conflict accelerates soil and vegetation degradation, but field assessments and monitoring are often only possible at a later stage and/or indirectly, for example, through remote sensing data. We used the Dynamic World v1, a land-cover open-source dataset derived from Sentinel-2 imagery, to quantify land-cover change in Gaza (Palestinian territories) between September 2023 and September 2025. After cloud/shadow masking and 10 m spatial esti…
Limitations of quantified rules in urban forestry
The Onto-Political Dilemmas of Urban Forest Governance
Urban forest planning, conservation, and governance often rely on data generated through positivist research paradigms, producing insights and decisions that are not easily accessible or meaningful to diverse publics. These gaps in understanding emerge across the spectrum of governance – from top-down institutional and political structures to grassroots, community-led practices of care. From a critical forest studies perspective, such tensions ar…
Environmental Science (8 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 works) · Cartography (3 works)