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Nature’s Neighborhood: The Housing Premium of Urban Parks in Dense Cities
LandUrban parks, a core component of urban landscapes, play a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of rapid urbanization and achieving sustainable urban development.
Siqi Feng +5 more
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Local and landscape drivers of bird community shifts in urban parks in a neotropical city
Acta Biológica ColombianaUrban growth affects bird community composition and diversity. However, these effects may vary based on urbanization level and season. We explored how local and landscape variables influenced urban avoiders, exploiters, and adapters birds during two ...
R. Carlos Almazán-Núñez +4 more
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Seasonal impact of urban parks on land surface temperature (LST) in semi-arid city of Tehran
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021 This paper studies the impact of parks as an element of urban green infrastructure on regulating surface temperature in the semi-arid city of Tehran, Iran.
Farimah Sadat Jamali +2 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Due to the shortage of green space in urban built environments, access to peri-urban parks in the suburbs has been a focus of planning practices to meet increasing resident demands for recreational visits to natural settings. However, accurate approaches
Jinguang Zhang, Yingyi Cheng, Bing Zhao
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Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Urban Parks Are Similar to Those in Natural Forests but Shaped by Vegetation and Park Age [PDF]
, 2017 Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are important mutualists for the growth and health of most boreal trees. Forest age and its host species composition can impact the composition of ECM fungal communities.
Francini, Gaia +5 more
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Avian ResearchBird plumage color has been assessed as a possible trait driving the presence of bird species in urban areas. Although some species can see the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum, the mentioned studies did not take into account UV reflectance when characterizing ...
Lucas M. Leveau
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Using social science in National Park Service climate communications: A case study in the National Capital Region [PDF]
, 2020 Since 2012, the National Park Service’s (NPS’s) Urban Ecology Research Learning Alliance (UERLA) and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication have partnered on a collaborative “research-to-practice” internship program that ...
Beall, Lindsey +4 more
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Between distance and proximity: nature parks and the city in Switzerland [PDF]
, 2017 Urban Nature Parks do not exist in Switzerland. A debate regarding their establishment in 2010 petered out. This failure exemplifies a representation of nature in the Swiss parks system, which should stand very far removed from the city.
Salomon Cavin , J.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 With the development of the urban park, people's cognition of the relationship between the environment and public health has been improved, and higher requirements for the living environment have been put forward.
Wenfei Yao +4 more
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