Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
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DOI：
10.1098/rsbl.2007.0149
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发表时间：
2007-08-22
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影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Gaston, Kevin J.
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作者：
Fuller, Richard A.;Irvine, Katherine N.;Gaston, Kevin J.
世界人口正在向城市集中，引发人们对城市与自然越来越孤立的担忧。城市公共绿地是许多人日常接触自然的场所，这种接触具有可衡量的身心益处。在这里，我们表明，这些心理益处随着城市绿地物种丰富度的增加而增加。此外，我们证明绿地用户可以或多或少准确地感知物种丰富度，具体取决于所讨论的分类群。这些结果表明，城市绿地的成功管理除了生物多样性保护外，还应强调生物复杂性，以提高人类福祉。
The world's human population is becoming concentrated into cities, giving rise to concerns that it is becoming increasingly isolated from nature. Urban public greenspaces form the arena of many people's daily contact with nature and such contact has measurable physical and psychological benefits. Here we show that these psychological benefits increase with the species richness of urban greenspaces. Moreover, we demonstrate that greenspace users can more or less accurately perceive species richness depending on the taxonomic group in question. These results indicate that successful management of urban greenspaces should emphasize biological complexity to enhance human well-being in addition to biodiversity conservation.