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{"title":"Exploring urban vegetation type and defensible space’s role in building loss during wildfire-driven events in California","authors":"Francisco J. Escobedo ,&nbsp;Kamini Yadav ,&nbsp;Onofrio Cappelluti ,&nbsp;Nels Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105421","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105421","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of building characteristics and survival during wildfires are well studied. Less so is the role of urban vegetation type, condition, and location on building loss in fire events. We mapped and statistically modeled parcel-scale urban vegetation characteristics across different Defensible Space Buffers (DSBs) and their role in predicting building loss in shrub and forest dominated urban ecosystems. Using 3.0 m resolution PlanetScope imagery, geospatial data, and eCognition we mapped parcel-scale vegetation types and building characteristics in fire affected neighborhoods in Ventura and Paradise, California US. Classification and Regression Trees predicted building loss according to three different DSBs in two different ecoregions. An urban-chaparral model predicted higher bare ground cover and higher moisture content trees were significant predictors of building survival in DSBs 0–2 m from buildings. While in DSBs 10–20 m from buildings, percent bare ground, distance to herbaceous, building density, and tree distance were predictors of building loss. The urban-forest model predicted percent bare ground, distance to bare ground and herbaceous cover were significant predictors of buildings loss, while percent overhanging tree cover was less influential in predicting in building loss in DSBs less than 2 m. In DSBs 2–10 m from buildings, low shrub and tree moisture, and building densities were the most important predictors of building loss; while distance to scattered trees and building density were significant predictors in DSBs 10–20 m from buildings. Results can be used to understand the tradeoffs between vegetation-related benefits and fire hazard and for developing home insurance and municipal ordinance requirements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105421"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147688","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":"Priority areas for the conservation of tree species in a neotropical seasonal dry forest under deforestation and climate change scenarios","authors":"Fabio David Alabar ,&nbsp;Natalia Politi ,&nbsp;Anna M. Pidgeon ,&nbsp;Paula Názaro ,&nbsp;Ashley Olah ,&nbsp;Silvana Yanina Tejerina ,&nbsp;Volker C. Radeloff ,&nbsp;Sebastián Martinuzzi ,&nbsp;Mariano M. Amoroso ,&nbsp;Luis Rivera","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105422","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Piedmont Forest in northwest Argentina, like most Neotropical seasonal dry forests, is one of the world́s most threatened ecosystems due to deforestation and climate change. To plan conservation strategies aimed at sustaining this forest type, the response to projected changes in habitat conditions must be anticipated. Our objectives were to determine the potential distribution and identify priority areas for conservation that remain stable for saplings and mature trees of three dominant species (<em>Anadenanthera colubrina</em>, <em>Calycophyllum multiflorum</em>, and <em>Phyllostylon rhamnoides</em>) in land use plan categories, protected areas, and forest types under current and two future climate scenarios in northwest Argentina. <em>Calycophyllum multiflorum</em> has the smallest current potential distribution of the three species, but expands to have the largest potential distribution under future climate scenarios. Deforestation reduced by 11–20 % and protected areas harbor &lt; 10 % of the potential distribution of the three species in both age classes in current and future scenarios. In future scenarios, and compared to the current period, the overlap of the potential distribution will increase in the highest protection category, but also for areas categorized as low conservation value that can be transformed according to the land use plan. Half or more of the co-occurring potential distribution of each species, in each age class in current and future scenarios occurs in the Piedmont Forest. Three priority areas for conservation were identified totaling 5483 km² of which 9 % are currently within protected areas. Thus, at the end of this century the Piedmont Forest is likely to maintain its structure and function if measures are taken to ensure that natural tree regeneration can occur. In the face of future climate change, management policies can satisfy long-term conservation planning necessary to ensure persistence of Piedmont Forest function by protecting priority areas identified in this study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105422"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147689","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":"High vulnerability of children’s wildlife-oriented outdoor activities to urbanization and digital media use","authors":"Yutaro Aota ,&nbsp;Kazuaki Tsuchiya ,&nbsp;Shintaro Endo ,&nbsp;Masashi Soga","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children’s direct experiences with nature are crucial for their health, development, and the cultivation of pro-conservation attitudes and behavior. However, there is growing evidence that these experiences are declining across many regions worldwide, contributing to what is known as the extinction of experience. Urbanization and increased digital media use have been suggested as major drivers of this decline. While these factors likely affect different aspects of nature experiences in distinct ways, their differential impacts have yet to be formally tested. Using data from a nationwide survey of children’s and adolescents’ nature experiences in Japan, we investigated how urbanization and digital media use influence nature-based activities that require attention to and engagement with wildlife (wildlife-oriented outdoor activities) versus those that do not (general outdoor activities). We found that urbanization and digital media use reduce participation in wildlife-oriented outdoor activities, and that children in highly urbanized areas or with frequent smartphone use were less likely to engage in activities such as bird watching and insect catching. However, general outdoor activities like camping and wild swimming were more frequently reported among children living in more urbanized areas and those more engaged with digital media. These findings suggest that wildlife-related experiences are particularly susceptible to the negative effects of urbanization and increased digital media use compared to general outdoor activities, highlighting the need to consider the diversity of nature experiences when evaluating the extinction of experience and designing strategies to mitigate its impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105408"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123192","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":"Daily mobility, greenspace exposure and affective states: A systematic review of studies that use mobile methods","authors":"Hong Deng ,&nbsp;Jens Kandt ,&nbsp;Valerio Signorelli ,&nbsp;Nicola Shelton","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emotions, being individuals’ transient affective experiences, are shaped by relational dynamics and environmental interactions over time and cross places. Contact with greenspace as a vital health determinant and well-being resource, similarly, is situationally dependent and culturally influenced. Mobile methods, which involve collecting and analysing data from participants as they move through various settings, offer an innovative approach to studying the relationship between greenspace exposure and affective states during daily mobility. As these methods gain traction, it is essential to develop theoretical frameworks and methodological standards. This systematic review synthesises evidence from 33 studies that employ individual-level, high-resolution mobility data to examine the relationships among daily mobility, greenspace exposure, and affective states. While the overall quality of these studies was rated as ‘good’ with respect to bias risk, according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, inconsistencies in the definitions of outcomes and exposures, as well as variations in measurement and analytical designs, pose significant challenges to forming a cohesive body of evidence. Our analysis focuses on five critical aspects of these studies: geographic scope, sampling strategies, methods for measuring affective states, approaches to assessing greenspace exposure, and statistical techniques. To overcome these challenges and build a more robust evidence base, we propose a unified and collaborative research framework. This framework aims to guide built environment research and inform urban planning practices, thereby enhancing our understanding of the connections between greenspace exposure and emotional well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105407"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115139","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":"Urban landscape heterogeneity disaggregates the legacy of redlining on land surface temperature","authors":"Meen Chel Jung ,&nbsp;Karen Dyson ,&nbsp;Marina Alberti","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The lingering effects of redlining are linked to contemporary heat inequities observed across US cities. Residential security maps created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) have been widely used to analyze neighborhood-level disparities in land surface temperatures. However, the use of aggregated spatial units often fails to capture internal landscape heterogeneity and the heat vulnerabilities associated with redlining. In this study, we introduced urban landscape heterogeneity by incorporating granular development levels captured at different resolutions within HOLC-graded neighborhoods. This approach combined Landsat-based National Land Cover Database (NLCD) data, Sentinel-based WorldCover land cover data, and HOLC map layers. We examined the role of urban landscape heterogeneity in revealing additional patterns of heat inequities beyond those explained by redlining-based macro spatial units, using grouped boxplots and mixed-effects models across three major cities in the Northeastern US: Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By accounting for urban landscape heterogeneity, our findings revealed that: (1) the well-documented trend of higher land surface temperatures in lower HOLC grades becomes systematically fragmented, (2) statistical models show improved performance in estimating land surface temperature, and (3) the cooling effect of tree canopy exhibits a varying, non-linear threshold pattern. These results highlight the need to consider micro-scale landscape dimensions to better understand the persistent, unequal distribution of temperatures associated with redlining. Municipal and community-led tree planting initiatives should consider comprehensive landscape characteristics to develop spatially targeted heat mitigation strategies and promote equitable climate outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105406"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067201","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":"How does the choice of trees in favour of high carbon storage benefit faunistic biodiversity in urban areas? A systematic review","authors":"Louisa Ramke ,&nbsp;Sonja Knapp ,&nbsp;Tanja M. Straka","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land-use change, climate crisis, and subsequent biodiversity loss are critical challenges that need to be addressed in sustainable urban development. The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is a promising approach to guide this development. Trees are key elements of urban nature that provide a variety of ES, including carbon storage and food and habitat for diverse faunistic groups. It is often suggested that the design of cities in favor of biodiversity also benefits ES and vice versa, but the relationship between tree species, carbon storage, and faunistic biodiversity remains underexplored. Traits of species and characteristics describing a state of an individual have been suggested as ES-indicators. Therefore, we investigated how the choice of tree species and their characteristics in favor of high carbon storage affect faunistic biodiversity and other ES in urban areas.</div><div>We conducted a systematic literature review using Web of Science and Bibliometrix, aiming to investigate (i) which tree species have high carbon storage and shared characteristics, (ii) which of the tree species with high carbon storage also support the species diversity of different faunistic groups and which tree characteristics are relevant for both carbon storage and faunistic diversity, and (iii) whether there are synergies or trade-offs between optimizing carbon storage and faunistic biodiversity with other ES.</div><div>We identified 68 studies that tested at least one of (i), (ii), or (iii). We found that characteristics of trees (i.e., age and size) and their environment (e.g., location, cover) rather than tree species are most relevant to strengthen synergies between carbon storage and faunistic diversity, with large old trees being key. However, studies were predominantly from the Global North, restricting the generalizability of results. We recommend complementing urban tree registers with information about the value of tree species for faunistic biodiversity, protecting large old trees in urban areas, and emphasizing research beyond the Global North. Our results are relevant for urban planners and designers aiming to create cities that account not only for climate change but also for the needs of urban faunistic biodiversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105404"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948040","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":"Is green alone enough? A mixed-design virtual reality study on landscape elements and restorative effects across different occupations","authors":"Zongyang Chen,&nbsp;Chika Takatori","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although numerous studies have established the positive link between green spaces and human restorative effects, little research has deeply explored how different combinations of natural elements in green spaces affect various occupational groups, especially in the context of post-pandemic urban space compression. This study employed virtual reality (VR) to design a mixed-design experiment involving 120 participants from four major occupational groups, aiming to investigate the differential restorative effects of six natural environments.</div><div>Following a stress induction procedure, participants randomly experienced all six VR scenes, each for three minutes. By monitoring physiological indicators, alongside psychological measurements, our study assessed the restorative effects across different scenes and emphasized the impact of occupation on restorative experiences.</div><div>The findings showed that students and office workers were significantly more sensitive to natural environments than manual laborers and the non-working people. Environment featuring water bodies and flowers demonstrated more pronounced restorative effects compared to large lawns, while the restorative effects of various woodland scenes were relatively consistent. Additionally, scenes with seasonal flowers and large lawns had significant and unique impacts on manual laborers.</div><div>Our study not only provides a human-centered theoretical basis for the design of green space but also underscores the importance of optimizing urban green space layouts according to occupational group distributions to maximize the restorative value of green spaces. Although it cannot fully replace real nature, it proposes that using VR to view green spaces can beyond time and space constraints, offering a flexible method for restorative exploration in the post-pandemic era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105392"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937678","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":"Urban community gardens foster positive human-avian interactions across an income gradient in San Francisco","authors":"Kelley E. Langhans ,&nbsp;Alejandra Echeverri ,&nbsp;Maya Xu ,&nbsp;Meggie Callahan ,&nbsp;Mei Li Palmeri ,&nbsp;Oliver Nguyen ,&nbsp;Nicole M. Ardoin ,&nbsp;Gretchen C. Daily","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Access to nature in cities is critical to human well-being; however, it is not equitably distributed. In this study, we investigated a specific type of access to nature, access to positive interactions with urban birds. We explored whether these interactions are equitably distributed in 20 community gardens across an income gradient in the city of San Francisco, U.S.A. We used an interdisciplinary approach, combining ecological and social methods. To assess bird abundance and diversity, we conducted point counts. To understand gardener’s attitudes towards birds, we conducted online and in-person quantitative surveys. We found that gardeners had highly positive attitudes towards individual species and towards birds overall, despite slightly more negative attitudes towards two corvid species. Gardeners associated different ecological and aesthetic services and disservices with different species. Our models showed no significant relationship between our metrics of access and garden income. Instead, bird abundance and diversity was correlated with local and landscape environmental variables, only some of which were related to income. Our results suggest that the luxury effect does not exist for birds during the breeding season in community gardens in San Francisco. Investment in maintaining and growing community gardens could present a mutually beneficial solution for biodiversity and equitable nature access in the city.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105391"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911548","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":"Enhancing urban sustainability: An emergy-based framework to support green infrastructure planning","authors":"Shuyan Wan ,&nbsp;Chen Lu ,&nbsp;S. Samuel Li ,&nbsp;He Peng ,&nbsp;Xuelin Tian ,&nbsp;Rengyu Yue ,&nbsp;Chunjiang An","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Green infrastructure (GI) is a vital strategy for climate change adaptation and urban sustainability, yet integrating its multifunctionality remains significantly challenging. This study develops a sustainability-oriented optimization framework for GI systems, incorporating emergy analysis, multi-objective optimization, and regional climate models. It highlights a sound cross-domain assessment and addresses real-world challenges such as limited data availability and tight timelines. This framework is applied to two cases across different countries and reveals that GI project sustainability varies by site-specific factors and national contexts. Common findings underscore the high priority of green roofs, which, combined with rain gardens or sunken greens, are eco-friendly, cost-effective, and multifunctional. Permeable pavements, despite previous economic advantages, show lower sustainability. Sensitivity analysis reveals the importance of parameters related to green roofs and the emergy money ratio. This research provides robust decision support for stakeholders and advances GI planning, offering novel insights into sustainable urban practices under climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105397"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911549","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":"Evaluating rehabilitation practices to inform invasion resistance in designed urban meadows","authors":"Garland Xie ,&nbsp;J.Scott MacIvor","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to restore urban green spaces (UGSs) aim to enhance benefits for both people and nature. Right-of-way (ROW) corridors, such as those beneath powerlines, offer key opportunities. By removing invasive species and introducing native plants through urban-adapted management practices, these spaces could become biodiverse UGSs in expanding cities. In this study we evaluate the effectiveness of invasive species management at “The Meadoway”, a ROW turned 16-km linear urban park underneath powerlines in Toronto, Canada. Here, newly-established sites were in progress and experienced rototilling, cover crops, and seed drilling of prepared native plant seed mixes to support the seed bank. Sites at the fully restored stage (<em>i.e.</em>, 5–8 years old) were completed and had established targeted native vegetation and litter biomass without further management. Between these restoration stages, we tested the relative role of invasibility (<em>i.e.</em>, biomass production and species richness of the resident community), disturbance from rototilling, and propagule pressure (<em>i.e.</em>, seed rain of <em>Vincetoxicum rossicum</em>, seed bank density and richness) on degree of invasion from multiple species. Overall, we found that degree of invasion is 78 % higher in newly-established sites that have experienced large-scale disturbance, and a denser seed bank reduces invasibility by 50 %. We recommend rototilling as a form of disturbance to prepare seed banks as 12 invasive species were found to be of low management priority. Second, existing practices can also be adapted to encourage more native seeds to delay incipient biological invasions. Our findings and recommendations are adaptable, making them suitable for widespread application in ROWs, which are common. This flexibility allows for the broad implementation of designed urban meadows.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105386"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906558","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}