Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China
Intensified urbanization has caused a linear decline in the quality of urban biodiversity and indirectly harms our current human settlement environment. Urban mountain parks provide a refuge for the animals and plants and play a vital role in satisfying residents’ lives. At present, few studies are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222248/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742276 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127029 |
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author | Xu, Weizhen Zheng, Dulai Huang, Peilin Yu, Jiao Chen, Ziru Zhu, Zhipeng Dong, Jianwen Fu, Weicong |
author_facet | Xu, Weizhen Zheng, Dulai Huang, Peilin Yu, Jiao Chen, Ziru Zhu, Zhipeng Dong, Jianwen Fu, Weicong |
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description | Intensified urbanization has caused a linear decline in the quality of urban biodiversity and indirectly harms our current human settlement environment. Urban mountain parks provide a refuge for the animals and plants and play a vital role in satisfying residents’ lives. At present, few studies are focusing on the impact of biodiversity on human mental health benefits of urban mountain parks in high-density construction areas along the coast of the Eastern Hemisphere. Here, we examined the relationship between bird abundance, Shannon diversity, Simpson diversity, and Richness and momentary mental health (positive, negative, and anxiety) in urban mountain parks. The timed species counts method was used to conduct three surveys of birds in urban mountain parks, and linear regression was performed on the relationship between bird diversity and mental health among sites. According to the regression model results, we found no significant correlation in any disturbance levels. As urban mountain parks are an essential part of the human settlement environment, how to improve the biodiversity and mental health of urban mountain parks is one of the focuses of research on biodiversity well-being in the future. Urban planning authorities and public mental health researchers should pay attention to the importance of biodiversity in urban development and consider how to realize the beautiful vision of the harmonious coexistence of humans, animals, plants, and the environment in which we live. |
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spelling | pubmed-92222482022-06-24 Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China Xu, Weizhen Zheng, Dulai Huang, Peilin Yu, Jiao Chen, Ziru Zhu, Zhipeng Dong, Jianwen Fu, Weicong Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Intensified urbanization has caused a linear decline in the quality of urban biodiversity and indirectly harms our current human settlement environment. Urban mountain parks provide a refuge for the animals and plants and play a vital role in satisfying residents’ lives. At present, few studies are focusing on the impact of biodiversity on human mental health benefits of urban mountain parks in high-density construction areas along the coast of the Eastern Hemisphere. Here, we examined the relationship between bird abundance, Shannon diversity, Simpson diversity, and Richness and momentary mental health (positive, negative, and anxiety) in urban mountain parks. The timed species counts method was used to conduct three surveys of birds in urban mountain parks, and linear regression was performed on the relationship between bird diversity and mental health among sites. According to the regression model results, we found no significant correlation in any disturbance levels. As urban mountain parks are an essential part of the human settlement environment, how to improve the biodiversity and mental health of urban mountain parks is one of the focuses of research on biodiversity well-being in the future. Urban planning authorities and public mental health researchers should pay attention to the importance of biodiversity in urban development and consider how to realize the beautiful vision of the harmonious coexistence of humans, animals, plants, and the environment in which we live. MDPI 2022-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9222248/ /pubmed/35742276 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127029 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Xu, Weizhen Zheng, Dulai Huang, Peilin Yu, Jiao Chen, Ziru Zhu, Zhipeng Dong, Jianwen Fu, Weicong Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title | Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title_full | Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title_fullStr | Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title_short | Does Bird Diversity Affect Public Mental Health in Urban Mountain Parks?—A Case Study in Fuzhou City, China |
title_sort | does bird diversity affect public mental health in urban mountain parks?—a case study in fuzhou city, china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222248/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742276 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127029 |
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