A perspective on green, blue, and grey spaces, biodiversity, microbiota, and human health

JD Potter, C Brooks, G Donovan, C Cunningham… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans have lived from equator to poles for millennia but are now increasingly intruding
into the wild spaces of other species and steadily extruding ourselves from our own wild …

The benefits of nature exposure: The need for research that better informs implementation

M Marvier, P Kareiva, D Felix… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Concern about humanity's detachment from nature has spawned a global push to increase
the availability of green spaces within cities. One impetus for this movement is a growing …

[HTML][HTML] Tree insect pests and pathogens: a global systematic review of their impacts in urban areas

S Raum, CM Collins, J Urquhart, C Potter, S Pauleit… - Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Trees contribute greatly to urban environments and human well-being, yet relatively little is
known about the extent to which a rising incidence of tree insect pests and pathogens may …

Links of urban green space on environmental satisfaction: A spatial and temporarily varying approach

L Li, Y Zheng, S Ma - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023 - Springer
The provision of urban green space is spatially uneven, which has brought challenges in
shaping the inequalities of people's subjective well-being in the developing world. Using …

Just street trees? Street trees increase local biodiversity and biomass in higher income, denser neighborhoods

EC Anderson, DH Locke, STA Pickett, SL LaDeau - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tree canopy cover is a critical component of the urban environment that supports ecosystem
services at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Increasing tree canopy across a matrix of …

Approaches to forecasting damage by invasive forest insects and pathogens: a cross-assessment

KF Raffa, EG Brockerhoff, JC Grégoire, RC Hamelin… - Bioscience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nonnative insects and pathogens pose major threats to forest ecosystems worldwide,
greatly diminishing the ecosystem services trees provide. Given the high global diversity of …

Quantifying the importance of urban trees to people and nature through tree removal experiments

C Ordóñez, CG Threlfall, D Kendal… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Experimentally manipulating urban tree abundance and structure can help explore the
complex and reciprocal interactions among people, biodiversity and the services urban …

[HTML][HTML] A user-feedback indicator framework to understand cultural ecosystem services of urban green space

X Zhu, X Cheng, B Zhang, C Mihalko - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are intangible benefits humans derive from the
ecosystem, closely related to residents' spiritual enrichment, perceptual development …

Environmental equity and spatiotemporal patterns of urban tree canopy in Atlanta

BW Koo, N Boyd, N Botchwey… - Journal of Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While previous studies in environmental equity found positive relationships between tree
canopy and socioeconomic/demographic status of neighborhoods, few examined how …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the effects of wind loading on three dimensional tree models using numerical simulation with implications for urban design

M Amani-Beni, M Tabatabaei Malazi, K Dehghanian… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, the effects of wind on an Eastern Red Cedar were investigated using numerical
simulations. Two different tree models were proposed, each with varying bole lengths and …