ArticleJournal of physiological anthropology2016
Natural environments, nature relatedness and the ecological theater: connecting satellites and sequencing to shinrin-yoku.
Article in Journal of physiological anthropology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Does waterfall aerosol influence mucosal immunity and chronic stress? A randomized controlled clinical trial.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2017Trial
- Monitoring muscle oxygen saturation during forest trail hiking: a prospective open-label quasi-experimental study with facility-based allocation examining physiological and immunological responses in older adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Forest Bathing (Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Residential greenness associate with psychiatric problem and physical-psychological multimorbidity among 6900 Chinese middle-aged and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Effects of Nature Exposure Therapies on Stress, Depression, and Anxiety Levels: A Systematic Review.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Review
- The next stage of physiological anthropology.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Article
- People's desire to be in nature and how they experience it are partially heritable.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Waterfall Forest Environment Regulates Chronic Stress via the NOX4/ROS/NF-κB Signaling Pathway.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- From Egoism to Ecoism: Psychedelics Increase Nature Relatedness in a State-Mediated and Context-Dependent Manner.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Physiological Effects of Viewing Bonsai in Elderly Patients Undergoing Rehabilitation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Forest-based Therapy: Research Letter of a Novel Regime for Improved Respiratory Health.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2018Article
- Physiological Effects of Visual Stimulation with Forest Imagery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Dysbiotic drift and biopsychosocial medicine: how the microbiome links personal, public and planetary health.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2018Article
- The importance of greenspace for mental health.BJPsych international · 2017Article
- In search of features that constitute an "enriched environment" in humans: Associations between geographical properties and brain structure.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2017Review
- From Green Space to Green Prescriptions: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Recent advances in research concerning the public health value of natural environments have been remarkable. The growing interest in this topic (often housed under terms such as green and/or blue space) has been occurring in parallel with the microbiome revolution and an increased use of remote sensing technology in public health. In the context of biodiversity loss, rapid urbanization, and alarming rates of global non-communicable diseases (many associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation), discussions of natural vis-a-vis built environments are not merely fodder for intellectual curiosity. Here, we argue for increased interdisciplinary collaboration with the aim of better understanding the mechanisms-including aerobiological and epigenetic-that might help explain some of the noted positive health outcomes. It is our contention that some of these mechanisms are related to ecodiversity (i.e., the sum of biodiversity and geodiversity, including biotic and abiotic constituents). We also encourage researchers to more closely examine individual nature relatedness and how it might influence many outcomes that are at the interface of lifestyle habits and contact with ecodiversity.
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