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The delivery of cultural ecosystem services in urban forests of different landscape features and land use contexts.

Published online: 07 Dec 2022

Authors: Wang Yuan & Niemelä, J. & Kotze, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Urban greenspace provides citizens with important cultural ecosystem services (CES). Identifying landscape features and land use contexts that facilit...

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The outdoor physical environment, inflammation and adult psychological distress in a UK general population sample.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Midouhas, E. & Kokosi, T. & Mueller, M. A. E. & Flouri, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Inflammation is one of the suggested pathways linking exposure to neighbourhood air pollution and greenspace to psychological distress. Yet, inflammat...

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Using citizen science data to define and track restoration targets in urban areas.

Published online: 22 Jul 2020

Authors: Callaghan, C. T. & Major, R. E. & Lyons, M. B. & Martin, J. M. & Wilshire, J. H. & Kingsford, R. T. & Cornwell, W. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat fragmentation and land degradation, directly and indirectly caused by urbanization, are drastically altering the world's ecosystems and are th...

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NatureScot Research Report 1338 - Valuing the health and well-being benefits of the NHS outdoor estate in Scotland.

Published online: 14 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Holt, A. & Johnson, N. & Cowap, C. & Edwards, R. T.

Content type: Reports

This report provides an update on a project to quantify and value the health and well-being benefits of the NHS Scotland outdoor greenspace estate. Ke...

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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Edmondson, J. L. & Davies, Z. G. & Gaston, K. J. & Leake, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modern agriculture, in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, imp...

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Conservation in post-industrial cities: how does vacant land management and landscape configuration influence urban bees?

Published online: 16 Mar 2021

Authors: Turo, K. J. & Spring, M. R. & Sivakoff, F. S. & Flor, Y. A. D. de la & Gardiner, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rich pollinator assemblages are documented in some cities despite habitat fragmentation and degradation, suggesting that urban areas have potential as...

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NatureScot opinion survey 2023.

Published online: 23 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: McGregor, D. & Strachan, V.

Content type: Reports

This report presents the findings from a nationally representative online survey of the Scottish adult population in November 2023, which was designed...

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Modelling short-rotation coppice and tree planting for urban carbon management - a citywide analysis.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: McHugh, N. & Edmondson, J. L. & Gaston, K. J. & Leake, J. R. & O'Sullivan, O. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The capacity of urban areas to deliver provisioning ecosystem services is commonly overlooked and underutilized. Urban populations have globally incre...

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Shifting perceptions of green and blue spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic in gentrifying neighbourhoods: experiences of inclusion and exclusion by women and non-binary residents.

Published online: 15 Dec 2024

Authors: Calderón-Argelich, A. & Anguelovski, I. & Cuenca, V. C. & Cole, H. V. S. & Triguero-Mas, M. & Valdivia, B. & Baró, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The COVID-19 outbreak triggered a combined health, social and economic crisis, imposing multiple restrictions that altered the use and perception of p...

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Factors influencing nature interactions vary between cities and types of nature interactions.

Published online: 28 Oct 2021

Authors: Oh RuiYing [Oh, R. Y. R.] & Fielding, K. S. & Nghiem, T. P. le & Chang ChiaChen & Shanahan, D. F. & Gaston, K. J. & Carrasco, R. L. & Fuller, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

1. There is mounting concern that people living more urbanised, modern lifestyles have fewer and lower quality interactions with nature, and therefore...

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