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{"title":"Which forest type do visitors find most attractive? Integrating management activities with the recreational attractiveness of forests at a landscape level","authors":"Jan Banaś ,&nbsp;Emilia Janeczko ,&nbsp;Stanisław Zięba ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Utnik-Banaś ,&nbsp;Krzysztof Janeczko","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105367","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105367","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents a spatially integrated method for forest management planning and outdoor recreation in forest areas. A survey of 1402 respondents with varied socio-demographic profiles assessed the recreational attractiveness of forest areas. We classified silvicultural regimes into four categories (no management, low, medium, and high-intensity management) and mapped the potential attractiveness of forest areas by means of exploratory spatial data analysis using the Corine Land Cover and Geoportal database. The analysis involved three levels: local (1×1 km grid), district, and regional. By applying local Moran’s <em>I</em>, an indicator of spatial association, the study identified “hotspots and outliers” of recreational attractiveness at a landscape level. The identification of spatial association types served as the foundation for making recommendations for forest planning. The findings indicate that a specific combination of site and terrain characteristics influences perceived attractiveness as respondents showed the highest recreational preferences for old multispecies stands located on terrain with pronounced relief. Nature conservation, surface water, and cultural heritage sites substantially enhanced the recreational attractiveness of forest areas. Our model may be a valuable tool for identifying the recreational attractiveness of forest areas and guiding specific regional forest management strategies. It provides useful information for aligning silvicultural planning with the preferred recreational variant, enabling the identification of forest areas with a given type of recreational attractiveness and implementing forestry practices conducive to enhancing ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105367"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Bird richness as a mediator between greenspace and mental health relationships","authors":"Sihao Chen ,&nbsp;Huaqing Wang ,&nbsp;Wenyan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105360","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neighborhood greenspaces are widely known to benefit bird diversity and human mental health. However, whether bird richness mediates the relationship between greenspace and mental health is unknown. We ascertain such mediation effects in 294 census tracts in Los Angeles City. We obtained greenspace data from one-meter resolution satellite imagery, bird species data from eBird citizen science datasets, and prevalence of poor mental health from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mediation analysis combined with spatial error models was used to assess the mediating effects while controlling for geographic, demographic, and socio-economic factors. We found that the higher greenspace percentage was associated with increased bird richness (β = 0.188, p &lt; 0.001), and such bird richness was associated with reduced prevalence of poor mental health (β =  − 0.020, p = 0.010). The bird richness partially mediated the relationship between the greenspace percentage and the prevalence of poor mental health, as evidenced by a decrease in coefficient efficiency from − 0.020 to − 0.017. Our findings underscore the need for public health policymakers, landscape architects, and greenspace managers to consider biodiversity-friendly strategies in the design of urban greenspaces to enhance both wildlife habitats and human mental health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105360"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"A satellite perspective of interannual and seasonal variations in greenspace and human exposure over urban and peri-urban areas in Chinese cities from 2000 to 2020","authors":"Dan-Xia Song ,&nbsp;Dantong Zhong ,&nbsp;Ziyi Chen ,&nbsp;Sixuan Qi ,&nbsp;Caiqun Wang ,&nbsp;Jing Yao ,&nbsp;Tao He","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105354","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105354","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban greenspaces significantly influence the ecological environment, resident health, and sustainable development of cities. Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is a common measure of urban greenspace, and a long-term FVC dataset is required to characterize the dynamics of vegetation in a complex urban environment along with socioeconomic development. This study proposed a data fusion method to integrate multiple existing satellite-based FVC datasets to create a spatially and temporally seamless FVC dataset at a 30-m resolution, which was applied to urban greenspace mapping for 12 representative cities in China for the 2000–2020 period. In addition, the distribution and changes in the equality of urban greenspaces exposure during the study period were examined by integrating the 30-m FVC datasets with a population-weighted exposure framework. Greendays are defined as the annual duration for which urban residents enjoy greenery throughout the year. The results suggest that greenspace in the 12 cities showed an upward trend, with greendays displaying a slight overall extension. The magnitude of the increase in greenspace and greendays was generally greater in <em>peri</em>-urban areas than in core urban areas. Equality in urban greenspace exposure remained high and improved over time. This research offers essential data support for urban planners and policymakers, contributing to more informed management of urban greenspaces. By mapping the evolution of greenspace exposure, this research supports decision-making towards a more equitable, healthy urban environment, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals focused on health, well-being, and sustainable urbanization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105354"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143716332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences","authors":"Michael L. Lengieza ,&nbsp;Miles Richardson ,&nbsp;Jack P. Hughes","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Landscape planning and design holds the potential to contribute to efforts toward repairing our growing psychological disconnection with nature. To do so, however, it is important to know what types of environmental features impact how connected to nature certain environments make us feel. The present study used a novel application of network analysis to identify which environmental features are most important for nature connection experiences. In this research, 205 participants completed online surveys in which they reported the presence or absence of a variety of environmental features during four previous nature connection experiences. They also indicated their level of recalled nature connectedness for each experience. The network analysis revealed that the most positively important features were those commonly found in rural nature (e.g., wild nature, animals, and mountains or hills). Features reflecting human presence (e.g., buildings, paved roads, vehicles) were most negatively important. Features commonly found in semi-rural nature (e.g., trees and meadows) were seemingly only important insofar as they were associated with the wilder features. Additionally, trails, wild nature, and mountains or hills were three of the features most central to nature connection experiences, suggesting that they are particularly important for how they support other parts of the network. Overall, from a purely nature-connection perspective, these findings support the need for increased rewilding efforts—more than simply increasing basic access to urban nature—and also limiting the overt presence of human development. Other more nuanced findings are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105362"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land-use legacy drives post-abandonment forest structure and understory in the western Alps","authors":"Giacomo Marengo ,&nbsp;Nicolò Anselmetto ,&nbsp;Davide Barberis ,&nbsp;Giampiero Lombardi ,&nbsp;Michele Lonati ,&nbsp;Matteo Garbarino","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural exodus from European mountain regions to lowlands has triggered natural reforestation of abandoned lands in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, altering the provision of ecosystem services and creating management challenges. Post-abandonment forests are complex ecosystems that respond over time and space to several drivers. Their management requires integrated approaches that involve insights from historical ecology. Our study aimed to assess the influences of the land-use legacies on post-abandonment forest overstory and understory and provide insights on suitable management strategies. We assessed these influences using multiple scales (from landscape to field scale) and ecological approaches (vegetation, forest, and landscape ecology).</div><div>We identified post-abandonment forests within a western Alps watershed through a land-use/land-cover change detection from 1954 to 2017. Field surveys were conducted in three different land-use legacy types (i.e., transitions from former grasslands, wood-pastures, and sparse forests to dense forests) to analyse forest overstory and understory. We explored the influences of land-use legacy on post-abandonment forests through redundancy analysis, using forest overstory and understory variables as response variables and environmental factors as predictors. Our study revealed successional and environmental differences among post-abandonment forests, notably depending on the historical presence of biological legacies: forests originating from former wooded areas exhibited ecological conditions closer to natural trajectories, while those resulting from abandoned grasslands still express conditions similar to the pre-abandonment ones. Based on our findings, we discuss how the direct implications of land-use legacies on post-abandonment forests can provide insights into their management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105357"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143696916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of greenness and road traffic noise for psychological restoration in everyday environments. A participatory mapping approach","authors":"María García-Martín ,&nbsp;Natalia Kolecka ,&nbsp;Marcel Hunziker ,&nbsp;Lukas Graz ,&nbsp;Javier Dopico ,&nbsp;Beat Schäffer ,&nbsp;Jean Marc Wunderli ,&nbsp;Silvia Tobias","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Greenness and noise are important environmental determinants of human health. The rapid urbanization and population growth have intensified the densification of urban environments, escalating traffic noise and the depletion of green spaces.</div><div>Our study aims to explore the role of greenness as a facilitator and noise exposure as an impediment to psychological restoration in people’s daily environments, examining the interplay between environmental factors, individual perceptions, and personal traits.</div><div>We employ a conceptual model where the effects of road traffic noise and greenness on restoration are mediated by perceived landscape factors and moderated by personal traits. We collected data through an online participatory survey of about 1500 Swiss respondents. Respondents were asked to indicate the level of restoration they obtained from looking out of their window at home and from their last restorative outdoor activity. Our analysis combines biophysical and acoustical georeferenced data with perceived survey data and uses multiple mediation analysis technics, i.e., structural equation modelling.</div><div>Results indicate that greenness and traffic noise exposure are only marginally linked to psychological restoration outcomes. However, they are strongly associated with perceived landscape aspects, such as the feeling of being in nature and noise annoyance, which in turn are linked to these outcomes. Personal traits, including connectedness with nature and stress levels, also play a critical role in shaping restoration outcomes.</div><div>Our study highlights the complex dynamics between environmental factors, personal perceptions, and restoration outcomes, emphasizing the pivotal role of perceived feeling of being in nature and personal traits in psychological restoration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105339"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the influence of environmental factors and route characteristics on leisure-oriented active travel: A case study in Skåne Province","authors":"Xiao Yang ,&nbsp;Yihang Chu ,&nbsp;Shipeng Hu ,&nbsp;Lu Jin ,&nbsp;Hui Liu ,&nbsp;Ning Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leisure-oriented active travel, such as walking and running, offers significant health and environmental benefits. It promotes physical activity and reduces reliance on motorized transport. Despite its importance, many studies focus primarily on urban areas, often neglecting suburban and natural regions. Additionally, these studies frequently include an excess of unfiltered features, leading to overly complex models that are difficult to apply in practice. To address these challenges, this study adopts a framework that integrates neighborhood rough set theory with methods such as Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models, Random Forest, and SHapley Additive exPlanations. By utilizing crowdsourced Komoot data and environmental datasets, the study identifies the key factors influencing the popularity of leisure-oriented active travel routes. The Hiking Index emerges as the most significant factor, followed by road surface types, surrounding environments, night light levels, and paving conditions. By accounting for both linear and nonlinear effects, the framework enhances the interpretability of the results. These findings offer practical insights for sustainable leisure-oriented active travel planning, supporting public health objectives, encouraging environmentally friendly travel, and providing valuable guidance for regional planning and policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105343"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Landscape modification and species traits shape seasonal wildlife community dynamics within an arid metropolitan region","authors":"Jeffrey D. Haight ,&nbsp;Sharon J. Hall ,&nbsp;Jesse S. Lewis","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the spatial factors that shape wildlife communities across human-modified landscapes is vital for biodiversity conservation. Although human activities can decrease biodiversity, humans can also provide resources, which can potentially increase species richness. However, it is largely unknown how seasonal community characteristics vary in relation to the characteristics of both the landscape and species. For this study, we evaluated how landscape characteristics and species traits influenced habitat use (i.e., patch occupancy, persistence, and colonization) and species richness across seasons and a gradient of urbanization, hypothesizing that habitat use and richness would increase with patch diversity and seasonally dynamic vegetation productivity but decrease with urbanization. We further predicted that use and richness would vary seasonally and increase in areas of urbanization during the summer season. Across the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Arizona, we used 50 wildlife cameras to evaluate the wildlife community for one year (2019–2020). We estimated seasonal habitat use and richness of this wildlife community across the spring, summer, and winter seasons using multi-scale community occupancy models. As predicted, seasonal use and richness consistently demonstrated negative relationships with urbanization. Contrary to predictions, use and richness did not increase in urbanized areas during the summer season. However, habitat use further varied according to species traits, with larger-bodied species exhibiting higher site use in less urbanized landscapes. Overall, similarities in species richness across seasons and low colonization rates suggest that habitat quality and/or spatial barriers may restrict the ability of wildlife to use fragmented and urbanized landscapes. Limiting urbanization within currently wildland areas and enhancing spatial connectivity could improve the ability of wildlife communities to utilize temporally dynamic resources and persist across anthropogenic landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105346"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Equity impacts of street tree spacing guidelines: A case study in two Los Angeles neighborhoods","authors":"Laura Messier ,&nbsp;Beau MacDonald ,&nbsp;John P. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105345","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Growing interest in green infrastructure to improve urban life and address the challenges of climate change is often channeled, at the level of municipal government, into programs to plant street trees. Existing disparities in urban tree canopy are well documented, yet the street tree spacing guidelines which dictate where trees can be located relative to other infrastructure in the right-of-way, which serve to severely limit the possibilities for adding future trees, receive little attention. We present a case study of a low- and high-income neighborhood in Los Angeles, modeling two policy scenarios, and find that structural differences between the two neighborhoods (e.g., parcel size, intersection density, and street width) differentially limit the number of trees which could be planted in each neighborhood, suggesting that existing guidelines may be a barrier to achieving municipal equity goals. Less restrictive guidelines were found to minimize between-neighborhood differences in tree quantity, yet substantial disparities remained in tree stature, a proxy for tree canopy, suggesting that shade equity may be more difficult to address with guideline changes alone.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105345"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Group disparities in the impact of green spaces and air pollution on the physical and mental health of rural older adults: Evidence from a nationwide longitudinal study","authors":"Zhenhua Zheng,&nbsp;Linquan Chen,&nbsp;Yuetong Wang,&nbsp;Ning Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air pollution and green spaces are intricately linked to the health of older adults. However, there is a notable paucity of research that examines the differential impacts of air pollution and green spaces on the physical and mental health of older adults across different age groups. This study utilizes data from the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey, covering the period from 2014 to 2020, alongside corresponding county-level data on air pollution and green spaces. The study utilizes latent growth models and random intercept cross-lagged models for longitudinal analysis. The study revealed that between 2014 and 2020, the physical function of rural older adults exhibited gradual improvement. However, mental health issues have become increasingly prevalent, particularly among the older aged group. Furthermore, air pollution significantly negatively affects both the physical and mental health of rural older adults, with the impact being most pronounced in the older aged group. Conversely, green spaces positively influence the mental health of rural older adults, although this benefit is significant only among the younger aged group. Moreover, the study identifies interaction effects between air pollution and green spaces regarding the health of older adults. Green spaces effectively mitigate the adverse effects of elevated air pollution on physical health of the older aged group, while air pollution diminishes the positive effects of limited green spaces on mental health of the younger aged group. Therefore, it is crucial to consider these age group differences when formulating environmental intervention strategies aimed at enhancing the health of older adults. The findings suggest that improving air quality is vital for safeguarding the health of rural the older aged group, while enhancing green spaces also merits attention for its beneficial effects on the mental health of the younger aged group.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105358"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143641757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}