{"id":14019,"date":"2023-08-24T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=14019"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:43","slug":"bird-diversity-impacts-anxiety-and-mood-rachel-buxton-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/bird-diversity-impacts-anxiety-and-mood-rachel-buxton-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird diversity impacts anxiety and mood- Rachel Buxton study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Bird diversity impacts anxiety and mood- Rachel Buxton study suggests\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Buxton<\/a>, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Carleton University, commented that often nature is considered as representing the amount of green space near homes or the distance to the nearest park, but the link between species diversity and health is underexplored. Her study shows that if species diversity can affect mental health at the severe end of the spectrum (hospitalisations), it is possible that the decline in biodiversity across the globe may be intricately connected with human anxiety and mood on a day-to-day basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdguides.com\/gallery\/birds\/turdus-migratorius\/588805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdguides-cdn.com\/cdn\/gallery\/birdguides\/a38da82d-48be-49e9-ba51-baeec4725631.jpg?&amp;width=1000&amp;format=webp&amp;webp.quality=85&amp;scale=down\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study is a small step towards understanding the complex integration of nature and human wellbeing and the specifics of biodiversity need to be researched more. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Buxton&#8217;s<\/a> team recommends further studies are taken to examine which particular aspects of nonhuman nature have the greatest impact on mood disorders, in order to inform future urban greening efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"reference\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reference<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Buxton, R T, Pearson, A L, Lin, H-Y, Sanciangco, J C, &amp; Bennett, J R. 2023.&nbsp;Exploring the relationship between bird diversity and anxiety and mood disorder hospitalisation rates.&nbsp;Geo: Geography and Environment. DOI:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/geo2.127\" aria-label=\"Digital Object Identifier\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/geo2.127<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rachel Buxton, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Carleton University, commented that often nature is considered as representing the amount of green space near homes or the distance to the nearest park, but the link between species diversity and health is underexplored. Her study shows that if species diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}