Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees

Enhanced immune functioning in response to biodiversity may explain potential health benefits from exposure to green space. Using unique data on urban forest biodiversity at the zip code level for California measured from 2014 to 2019 we test whether greater diversity of street trees is associated w...

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Main Authors: John J. Giacinto, G. Andrew Fricker, Matthew Ritter, Jenn Yost, Jacqueline Doremus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565780/?tool=EBI