The Urban Savanna

Gobster, Paul H.

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“…After this, post-exposure salivary, blood pressure, heart rate, and BPOMS scale data were collected (Time 3, T3). 44…”

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“…As Kaplans (1989) pointed out, more natural environment is not necessarily the environment with the best preference [43]. Gobster discovered that the spatial configurations of people's preferences were less ecological [44]. One study found that no correlation between biodiversity (based on number of plant species) and the duration of real time spent by the citizens at the green spaces was found [45].…”

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The Influence of Viewing Photos of Different Types of Rural Landscapes on Stress in Beijing

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The environment can affect people’s health by relieving stress, and rural landscape as a special environment might influence human’s stress relief. This study takes different types of rural landscapes as the research object to explore their impact on stress levels, which are shown by photos. As an independent variable, the rural landscape is divided into three levels: Type 1 (natural landscape), type 2 (productive landscape), and type 3 (artificial landscape). Seventy-three subjects were randomly assigned to each type of rural landscape. Salivary cortisol, blood pressure, heart rate, and a subjective rating state scale (brief profile of mood states, BPOMS) were used as indicators of stress. At the same time, the influence of preference and familiarity on the stress relieving effect was also discussed. A paired t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used as the main statistical methods. In the results of t-test for pre-posttest, significant difference was observed in high blood pressure, heart rate, and total mood disturbance (TMD) of type 1 and type 2, and the high and low blood pressure of type 3; ANOVA analysis revealed that for the difference of pre-posttest, significant difference was observed in the TMD value among the three types; except for type 3, blood pressure, heart rate, and BPOMS values were significantly affected by preference and familiarity. The conclusions include the following: The three types of rural landscapes have a positive effect on relieving stress; the productive landscape has the best effect on relieving stress; and users’ landscape preferences and familiarity with the environment can affect the effect of stress relief in rural landscapes.

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“…After this, post-exposure salivary, blood pressure, heart rate, and BPOMS scale data were collected (Time 3, T3). 44…”

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The Influence of Viewing Photos of Different Types of Rural Landscapes on Stress in Beijing

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“…The Influence of Citizens' Sociocultural Backgrounds on Visual Aesthetic Perceptions and Insights for Landscape Restoration Planning in the Karst Area Significant differences between sociocultural groups have been proved regarding visual aesthetic perceptions and attitudes to the restored landscape, which is one of our key findings. Therefore, determining what is liked by residents will guide the planning and design to better the effects of ecological restoration (Gobster 1994).…”

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The COVID‐19 pandemic changes citizens' visual aesthetic perceptions and attitudes toward restored landscape in the karst area in China

Fan

et al. 2022

Restoration Ecology

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Landscape change caused by ecological restoration projects in the karst rocky desertification area of southwestern China has presented ecological benefits, yet the visual aesthetic perception of the restored landscape has received less attention. Meanwhile, given the unpredictable worldwide health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it inspired us to be concerned about will citizens' aesthetic perceptions and attitudes to the change of restored landscape from pre-COVID-19 to during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizing an online survey, we explored citizens' visual aesthetic perceptions and attitudes to natural restored landscape (NRL) and managed restored landscape (MRL) on 757 citizens in Shilin Geopark (in Kunming, China), as well as how citizens' sociocultural backgrounds influence visual aesthetic preference. The results indicated that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the professionals preferred NRL, while the nonprofessionals presented a higher preference for MRL. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, both two groups showed a higher preference for NRL, which implied that the experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic might awaken most citizens' preference for the NRL. Among different kinds of restored plant communities, the landscape dominated by shrubs was the most popular. Furthermore, gender, age, career type, education, region, and citizens' visit frequency were significantly correlated with visual aesthetic perceptions before the COVID-19 pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, professional background, gender, and age did not show significant impacts on visual aesthetic perceptions anymore. These results highlight the necessity of understanding visual aesthetic perceptions in different sociodemographic groups to encourage natural succession and create a nature-based restored landscape in the karst area.

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“…Actualmente existen dos clases típicas de definiciones para "bosques urbanos": una los define como la suma de todas las plantas leñosas y otras plantas asociadas en una ciudad que incluye su área circunvecina (Gobster, 1994;Miller, 1997); mientras que la otra, los define como una comunidad arbórea que cubre cierta área de una ciudad y sus suburbios. La investigación sobre bosques urbanos inició en la década de 1960 y muchas ciudades fueron seleccionadas como áreas de estudio, tales como Atenas, Grecia (Profous, Rowntree, & Loeb, 1988), Hong Kong (Jim, 1992), Praga, Checoslovaquia (Profous & Rowntree, 1993), Nueva York, EE.…”

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“…At present there are two typical kinds of definitions for "urban forest": one defines it as the sum of all woody plants and other associated plants in a city which includes its surrounding area (Gobster, 1994;Miller, 1997), while the other definition is the tree community covering a certain area in a city and its suburbs. Research on urban forests started in the 1960's and many cities were selected as the study areas, such as Athens, Greece (Profous, Rowntree, & Loeb, 1988), Hong Kong (Jim, 1992), Prague, Czechoslovakia (Profous & Rowntree, 1993), New York, U. S. (Richards, Mallette, & Simpson, 1984), Oakland, U. S. (Nowak, 1993), Chicago, U. S. (McPherson et al, 1997), Los Angeles, U. S. (Miller & Winer, 1984) and San Francisco, U. S. (McBride & Froehlich, 1984).…”

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La Estructura Del Rodal Y La Función Ecológica Del Arbolado en El Parque Circundante De Hefei, Provincia De Anhui, China

Wang¹,

ZeMin²,

Yuan³

et al. 2014

Rev Cha Se Cie For y del Amb

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China. Correo-e: 3923909@163.com (*Autor para correspondencia). RESUMEN E l Parque Circundante de la ciudad de Hefei tiene características típicas de bosque urbano. En este investigación se utilizan métodos de ecología de la vegetación para analizar la estructura de la comunidad del parque. La composición de especies, la distribución de alturas de los árboles y el DAP (diámetro a la altura del pecho) fueron descritos. Existen 27,662 árboles en el área de estudio, la cual tiene un área de bosque urbano de 42. . Con base en la evaluación, los árboles en el parque cuentan con buena salud, pues representaron 53.4 % del total del bosque urbano. Las estructuras de la comunidad fueron analizadas a través del cálculo del índice de crecimiento de los árboles y la correlación de asociación de las especies componentes en el parque. Los resultados muestran que las estructuras de la comunidad en el parque son complejas; existen 22 pares de especies con asociación positiva y, en las siguientes comunidades, los individuos tienen buen crecimiento y son más estables, incluyendo principalmente Platycladus orientalis-Prunus cerasifera f. atropurpurea-Osmanthus fragrans, Robinia pseudoacacia-Ligustrum lucidum, R. pseudoacacia-Ginkgo biloba-Photinia serrulata, Populus canadensis-L. lucidum-O. fragrans, Sophora japonica-L. lucidum-Buxus sinica, Cyclobalanopsis glauca-Distylium racemosum.ABSTRACT H efei Round-the-City Park has typical urban forest characteristics. This paper uses vegetation ecology methods to analyze the community structure of the park, and species composition, tree-height distribution and DBH (diameter at breast height) were described. There are 27,662 trees in the study area, which has an urban forest area of 42.5 hm . Based on a health assessment, the trees in the park are in generally good health, as the healthy trees in the urban forest in the park accounted for 53.4 % of the total number. Through calculation of tree growth index and association correlation of component species in the park, the community structures were analyzed. The results show that community structures in the park are complex; there are 22 pairs of species with positive association and individuals in the following communities grow well and are more stable, including mainly Platycladus orientalis-Prunus cerasifera f

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The Urban Savanna

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The Influence of Viewing Photos of Different Types of Rural Landscapes on Stress in Beijing

The Influence of Viewing Photos of Different Types of Rural Landscapes on Stress in Beijing

The COVID‐19 pandemic changes citizens' visual aesthetic perceptions and attitudes toward restored landscape in the karst area in China

La Estructura Del Rodal Y La Función Ecológica Del Arbolado en El Parque Circundante De Hefei, Provincia De Anhui, China

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