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Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment [PDF]
Current Environmental Health Reports, 2021 Abstract Purpose of review Biodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for human health and well-being. Understanding how biodiversity relates to human health is a developing frontier for science, policy and practice.
Marselle, MR +3 more
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Urban forest invertebrates : how they shape and respond to the urban environment [PDF]
, 2022 Invertebrates comprise the most diversified animal group on Earth. Due to their long evolutionary history and small size, invertebrates occupy a remarkable range of ecological niches, and play an important role as "ecosystem engineers" by structuring ...
Jones, Theresa M. +12 more
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The arthritic in an urban environment [PDF]
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1979 Ninety-five patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthrosis were interviewed and questioned in their homes, being randomly selected from 354 outpatients with these diseases. The findings were compared with answers from 30 matched able-bodied controls.
M A, Chamberlain +2 more
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Urbanicity, Urbanization, and the Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2007 Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55740/1/ompad_urbanization_2007 ...
Ompad, Danielle C. +2 more
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On Improving Urban Environment Representations [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2014 Computer graphics has evolved into a mature and powerful field that offers many opportunities to enhance different disciplines, adapting to the specific needs of each. One of these important fields is the design and analysis of Urban Environments. In this article, we try to offer a perspective of one of the sectors identified in Urban Environment ...
Xavier Pueyo +2 more
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Airborne Particles in the Urban Environment [PDF]
Elements, 2010 Particulate matter is an important constituent of our atmosphere and has a critical impact on natural processes and human health. Although they are a minor component of the average global mass flux, anthropogenic particles are abundant in the urban environment, where they contribute substantially to air pollution.
Grobéty, Bernard +3 more
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Greenspace’s value orientations of ecosystem service and socioeconomic service in China
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022 Background: Natural ecosystems provide necessary services for human beings, including ecosystem service values (ESVs) and socioeconomic service values (SSVs). The value orientations of ESVs and SSVs are mainly related to people’s interaction with nature.
Xia Yao +11 more
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Water Quality of the Beach in an Urban and Not Urban Environment [PDF]
International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2016 Numerous studies and theories have emerged for evaluating the quality of beaches using different parameters. In recent years in the European region, one of the most important aspects when evaluating a beach is the quality of water and sand. The quality of water is represented by the amount of Intestinal Enterococcus and Escherichia coli. This parameter
Villacampa, Yolanda +5 more
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Response of soil viral communities to land use changes
Nature Communications, 2022 Soil viral communities remain understudied. Here, Liao et al. retrieve a catalogue of around sixty thousand vOTUs through a systematic viromic pipeline, and uncover the response of soil viral communities to anthropogenic land use changes.
Hu Liao +7 more
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Preference for different urban greenscape designs: a choice experiment using virtual environments [PDF]
, 2019 Nature in cities serves a multitude of purposes, one of which is that it provides citizens opportunities to recover from stressful daily urban life. Such stress recovering effects of nature can be experienced through urban green, which in urban planning ...
Timmermans, HJP Harry +5 more
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