{"id":15822,"date":"2024-06-26T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=15822"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:41","slug":"birds-tree-diversity-has-significant-impact-on-peoples-mental-health-says-rachel-buxtons-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/birds-tree-diversity-has-significant-impact-on-peoples-mental-health-says-rachel-buxtons-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds &#038; Tree Diversity has significant impact on people&#8217;s mental health says Rachel Buxton&#8217;s research"},"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                        Birds &#038; Tree Diversity has significant impact on people&#8217;s mental health says Rachel Buxton&#8217;s research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A study conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\">Dr. Rachel Buxton<\/a> &amp; her fellow researchers has shown that living in neighbourhoods with a higher variety of bird and tree species is associated with positive mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It builds on a wave of research that shows how significantly exposure to nature can benefit your mental and physical health &#8211; decreasing stress, depression and anxiety, along with rates of diabetes, strokes and heart disease. But the study &#8211; which analyzed data across 36 Canadian cities to show bird diversity increased the probability of good mental health by nearly seven per cent, and tree diversity increased it by more than five per cent &#8211; helps demonstrate a tie between mental health and biodiversity, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study used data from eBird, a crowdsourced app managed by Birds Canada, and a national forestry inventory to measure species diversity across cities including Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Calgary. Researchers then compared that data with self-reported mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app2.cision.com\/redir?s=8500002445995361&amp;startDate=1716768000000&amp;endDate=1719446399999\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by Dr. Rachel Buxton &amp; her fellow researchers has shown that living in neighbourhoods with a higher variety of bird and tree species is associated with positive mental health. It builds on a wave of research that shows how significantly exposure to nature can benefit your mental and physical health &#8211; decreasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15133,"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-15822","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\/15822","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=15822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15824,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions\/15824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}