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Contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation on community stability of breeding and wintering birds in urban green spaces 栖息地破碎化对城市绿地繁殖和越冬鸟类群落稳定性的影响对比

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128961

Xiangxu Liu, Di Zeng, Yuhao Zhao, Shaopeng Li, Shaopeng Wang, Bicheng Li, Xiao Yuan, Shunqi Bo, Xingfeng Si

{"title":"Contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation on community stability of breeding and wintering birds in urban green spaces","authors":"Xiangxu Liu, Di Zeng, Yuhao Zhao, Shaopeng Li, Shaopeng Wang, Bicheng Li, Xiao Yuan, Shunqi Bo, Xingfeng Si","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128961","url":null,"abstract":"Green spaces are crucial refuges for biodiversity conservation in urban environments with the accelerating rate of urbanization worldwide, which threatens their effectiveness in maintaining stable wildlife communities. While many studies have examined the effects of habitat fragmentation on community stability in natural landscapes, it is still unknown how habitat fragmentation and species traits shape wildlife community stability in urban green spaces. Here, we surveyed bird communities over five years in 19 green spaces along an urbanization gradient in Shanghai, China. In our study, habitat fragmentation was characterized by high edge density and high patch isolation of a particular urban green space in a highly urbanized area. We measured community stability as the temporal invariability of the total community abundance and partitioned it into population asynchrony and population stability. We thus explored how habitat fragmentation and species traits (measured as functional diversity) affect the community stability of urban birds. We found that bird functional diversity reduced community stability through population stability in the breeding and winter seasons. Habitat fragmentation increased community stability indirectly through functional diversity in both seasons. Furthermore, habitat fragmentation decreased the stability of bird communities through population asynchrony only in the breeding season. Our findings demonstrate the negative relationships between functional diversity and community stability in urban areas. Moreover, the contrasting seasonal effects of habitat fragmentation suggest that urban green space planning strategies should be seasonally adaptive. Connecting fragmented habitats is essential in the breeding season to support functional diversity and stability, while maintaining a certain level of fragmentation in winter may help stabilize communities.","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Fire Resistance in Urban Landscape Plants: A Framework for Resilient Greening Strategies 城市景观植物耐火性多维综合评价：弹性绿化策略框架

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128959

Manqing Yao, Deshun Zhang, Yingying Chen, Yujia Liu, Mohamed Elsadek

{"title":"Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Fire Resistance in Urban Landscape Plants: A Framework for Resilient Greening Strategies","authors":"Manqing Yao, Deshun Zhang, Yingying Chen, Yujia Liu, Mohamed Elsadek","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128959","url":null,"abstract":"As urban areas face escalating wildfire risks under climate change, selecting fire-resistant vegetation has become vital for sustainable and resilient landscape planning. Yet, most prior studies use one-dimensional approaches and overlook the complex interactions among morphological, physicochemical, and combustion traits that influence plant flammability. This study introduces a novel, multi-dimensional evaluation framework that systematically integrates these diverse fire-related traits to assess the fire resistance of 44 commonly used urban plant species in Shanghai, China. By applying the CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) weighting method, we objectively quantified the relative importance of 22 fire-related indicators across trees, shrubs, herbaceous, and vines plants. The results indicate distinct key factors influencing the fire resistance of woody plants versus herbaceous and vine. Specifically, combustion duration plays a critical role in the fire resistance of woody species, while physicochemical traits such as crude fat and moisture content are strong predictors for shrubs and herbaceous forms. Based on comprehensive fire resistance evaluation scores, the studied plants were classified into four categories. Species with high fire resistance include <ce:italic>Platanus</ce:italic> × <ce:italic>acerifolia</ce:italic>, <ce:italic>Aucuba japonica</ce:italic> var. <ce:italic>variegata</ce:italic> and <ce:italic>Parthenocissus quinquefolia</ce:italic>. Additionally, our classification reveals marked differences in fire resistance across plant growth forms, offering a scientific basis for selecting species to establish safe and sustainable landscape configurations. The proposed framework fills a methodological gap in the literature and provides a scalable tool for integrating fire prevention into urban greening strategies, contributing to climate adaptation, ecological safety, and long-term urban resilience.","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing urban rewilding potential: Plant diversity and public landscape perceptions in urban wildscapes of Harbin, China 城市再野化潜力评估：哈尔滨城市景观中的植物多样性和公众景观感知

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128958

Shangchun Hu , Jiahui Liu , Jing Que , Yujia Li , Xing Su , Baoqin Li , Guoyu Wang

{"title":"Assessing urban rewilding potential: Plant diversity and public landscape perceptions in urban wildscapes of Harbin, China","authors":"Shangchun Hu , Jiahui Liu , Jing Que , Yujia Li , Xing Su , Baoqin Li , Guoyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban rewilding has gained increasing attention as a strategy to restore ecological processes and enhance biodiversity in cities. Urban wilderness areas, by supporting spontaneous vegetation and minimal human intervention, offer both ecological benefits and opportunities for human-nature interactions. However, few studies have jointly examined plant diversity and public perception across different wilderness types within a single urban context. This study investigated 16 urban wilderness sites in Harbin, China, classified into three types—Remnant and Protected Wilderness (RPW), Vacant Lot Wilderness (VLW), and Industrial Derelict Wilderness (IDW). We conducted field surveys to assess species, functional, and phylogenetic plant diversity, and used a photo-questionnaire (n = 1570) to evaluate public perceptions of aesthetic appeal, restoration, and exploration. Results show that higher exposure to urban wilderness was associated with significantly greater perceived landscape value. RPW sites demonstrated stronger ecological-social synergy, while IDW sites showed weaker coupling coordination. Plant phylogenetic diversity and measured species richness were positively correlated with public perception metrics. The study underscores the potential of differentiated wilderness types to simultaneously advance biodiversity goals and social well-being, emphasizing the need for integrative, site-sensitive approaches to urban rewilding and green space planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 128958"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From private yards to public benefits: How human dimensions shape the urban forest in a small city 从私人庭院到公共利益：人的维度如何塑造小城市的城市森林

IF 6 2区环境科学与生态学

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128948

Luke H. Beattie, Greg King, Glen Hvenegaard

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Parks and Social Capital: An Analysis of the 100 Most Populous U.S. Cities 公园与社会资本：对美国100个人口最多城市的分析

IF 6.4 2区环境科学与生态学

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128956

William P. Klein, Dexter H. Locke, Kevin Niu, Howard FrumkinA

{"title":"Parks and Social Capital: An Analysis of the 100 Most Populous U.S. Cities","authors":"William P. Klein, Dexter H. Locke, Kevin Niu, Howard FrumkinA","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128956","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, much attention has focused on strategies to reverse the decline of social capital in the United States. Increased social capital, which includes both intergroup contact and civic engagement, has many important benefits. For low-income individuals, friendships with high-income individuals (“economic connectedness”, a measure of inter-group contact) are one of the strongest predictors of their ability to escape poverty and gain increased life opportunities. Volunteering, a measure of civic engagement, is hypothesized to be key in building trust among neighbors. Urban parks are often thought to be a ‘third place’ that may increase social capital within a community through both increased ‘mixing and mingling’ and increased civic engagement. This study finds that residents of cities with better quality park systems (as measured by the ParkScore Index) are more socially connected and engaged with their neighbors (as measured by the Social Capital Atlas) than are residents of cities with lower-ranking park systems. Relative to the bottom 25 ranked cities, the top 25 ParkScore cities had 26% more social connections between different income groups, 61% more volunteers per capita, and 45% more civic organizations per capita. These patterns held after controlling for other factors such as education, race/ethnicity, poverty, and family structure. These ‘other’ factors often had stronger associations with the social capital indicators, suggesting park systems are an important, but not primary, driver of a community’s social capital. People living in cities with more parks and recreational opportunities may be more likely to realize these important benefits.","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Life cycle cost analysis of urban trees: a case study of five cities in Germany 城市树木的生命周期成本分析：以德国五个城市为例

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128952

Doris Bechtel, Rebecca Amberger, Brigitte Helmreich, Sven Bienert, Werner Lang

{"title":"Life cycle cost analysis of urban trees: a case study of five cities in Germany","authors":"Doris Bechtel, Rebecca Amberger, Brigitte Helmreich, Sven Bienert, Werner Lang","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128952","url":null,"abstract":"Trees in urban sites are a nature-based solution for mitigating local heat stress due to the tree's ability to provide shading, enhance evaporation, and increase biodiversity. In supporting well-being in the built environment, the goal of the European Green Deal emphasizes planting new trees; it does not address the protection of existing trees nor the quality of new plantings in response to climate change. Additionally, the economic benefits of urban tree protection have received less attention in research than new plantings. Hence, in several planning competitions, we developed cost benchmarks for six urban tree scenarios, focusing on realistic planning scenarios. We compared the life cycle costs, analyzing construction, maintenance, and end-of-life costs based on the German building cost index and variations in discount rates. Our 50-year life cycle cost assessment shows that preserving existing trees, including implementing tree protection measures, is more cost-effective than tree removal and replacement planting during the cycle. Furthermore, if new tree planting is required, planting in a green space is more than twice as cost-effective as planting in partially sealed areas. Planting in partially sealed areas is up to five times more expensive than preserving existing trees. When planting in sealed sites is unavoidable, the payback period of an optimized tree pit is after approximately 34 years, considering no discount rate. If a discount rate is included, a lower rate of 1.5% encourages planting in an optimized tree pit. Our benchmarks provide valuable insights for decision-makers to optimize tree management strategies for urban areas. This study encourages preserving urban trees and non-sealed locations to maximize long-term cost efficiency.","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unravelling leaf hydraulic responses to urbanization and the coordination with economic strategies of subtropical urban forests 亚热带城市森林叶片对城市化的水力响应及其与经济策略的协调

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128954

Zhuxuan Tan , Xiu Meng , Liuting Li , Jianan Wang , Yanqiong Meng , Zihao Man , Yiyong Li

{"title":"Unravelling leaf hydraulic responses to urbanization and the coordination with economic strategies of subtropical urban forests","authors":"Zhuxuan Tan , Xiu Meng , Liuting Li , Jianan Wang , Yanqiong Meng , Zihao Man , Yiyong Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128954","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128954","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban plants’ functional traits largely reflect their resilience to environmental stresses, necessitating a deeper understanding of plant adaptive strategies for sustainable urban forestry. This study investigated the intraspecific variation and coordination of leaf economic and hydraulic traits in eight subtropical tree species along an urbanization gradient in Hefei, China. We observed that trees in urban site exhibited enhanced drought tolerance traits compared with rural site, including more negative water potential at 50 % loss of hydraulic conductivity and turgor loss point, alongside higher leaf hydraulic conductance and leaf vein density. Urban trees also displayed lower leaf mass per area and higher leaf photosynthesis rate, indicative of an acquisitive resource strategy, contrasting with rural trees’ conservative traits (e.g., thicker palisade tissue). Principal component analysis demonstrated divergent trait coordination: urban trees prioritized hydraulic safety and photosynthetic efficiency, while rural trees emphasized structural investment. We also discovered that urbanization weakens the linkage between hydraulic and economic trait spectra in plant leaves, triggering a shift from the \"coordinated optimization\" adaptation mode observed in rural ecosystems to a \"modular adaptation\" strategy in urban to balance hydraulic safety and resource allocation demands. Collectively, our results revealed that the economic strategies of leaves showed a trend from conservation to acquisition along urbanization gradients extending from rural to urban sites. Our findings also reveal that urbanization progression leads to a weakening of the correlation between leaf hydraulic and economic traits in plants, providing a mechanistic understanding of how trees adapt to urbanization habitats.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 128954"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144595668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A bibliometric analysis of nature-based solutions and urban forests as a nature-based solution using Web of Science and CiteSpace™ during its foundational stage 基于Web of Science和CiteSpaceTM的基于自然的解决方案和城市森林作为自然解决方案的文献计量学分析

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128955

Jiajia Zhao , Clive Davies , Charlotte Veal , Juan Manuel Rubiales , Chengyang Xu , Xinna Zhang

{"title":"A bibliometric analysis of nature-based solutions and urban forests as a nature-based solution using Web of Science and CiteSpace™ during its foundational stage","authors":"Jiajia Zhao , Clive Davies , Charlotte Veal , Juan Manuel Rubiales , Chengyang Xu , Xinna Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128955","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban forests as a nature-based solution (UF-NbS) is a subset of nature-based solutions (NbS), which recognises the potential of tree-based urban landscapes to provide ecosystem services. This study employed CiteSpace™ software to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of NbS and UF-NbS in literature, utilising the Web of Science (WoS) databases for literature in English. 2014 – 2021 emerges as a period during which foundational theories, early applications, and key trends emerged in NbS research which have shaped the field. Visualisations of NbS applications, particularly in urban forest management are presented along with an analysis aimed to uncover research patterns and collaborative pathways. In addition, the paper sets out to establish the groundwork for further investigations into urban forest disciplines based on NbS science and key technological innovations. The primary findings are that research on NbS and UF-NbS has emerged as a hot topic in recent years; that European institutions and groups have played an essential role in the development of this field by fostering close academic cooperation networks, and that research elsewhere, such as China, is still in its development stage. We propose that future studies should add other web directories, search in other languages and utilise multiple bibliometric tools. It is evident that research in this domain continues to evolve rapidly and that bibliometric studies from 2022 onwards can help identify emerging research directions and applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 128955"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144621946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Productive urban green façades – Biomass and bioenergy 生产性城市绿地-生物质和生物能源

IF 6 2区环境科学与生态学

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128951

Yannick Luca Dahm, Thomas Nehls

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Drone-based assessment of urban green space structure and cooling capacity 基于无人机的城市绿地结构与降温能力评价

IF 6 2区环境科学与生态学

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128953

Na Shen , Fei Feng , Chengyang Xu , Xianwen Li , Maria Vincenza Chiriacò , Raffaele Lafortezza

{"title":"Drone-based assessment of urban green space structure and cooling capacity","authors":"Na Shen , Fei Feng , Chengyang Xu , Xianwen Li , Maria Vincenza Chiriacò , Raffaele Lafortezza","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128953","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The urban green spaces (UGS) structure are important attributes affecting a wide range of ecosystem services in cities, especially the potential cooling effects of trees and vegetation. However, the coarse resolution of most satellite images limits the ability to detect and assess the structural characteristics of UGS and their effects on the thermal environment. In this direction, drones provide an ideal tool to overcome this issue. In this study, we employed Random Forest algorithms and Python tools modelling to produce detailed land use patterns for two typical UGS in China (i.e., urban parks) to explore the effect of UGS structural factors on the thermal environment and its cooling capacity. We used two UGS in Baoding as case studies: Jingxiu Park with diverse and complex spatial structures, and Military Academy Square characterized by single and simple structures. Our results suggest that Jingxiu Park (complex struct patterns) provides a higher cooling effect (0.551℃ lower) and temperature regulation than Military Academy Square (simple struct patterns). Additionally, land surface temperature comparisons of impervious surfaces with and without shaded areas demonstrate that shading has an enhanced cooling effect and varies across habitat types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 128953"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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