Life in green: Associations between greenspace availability and mental health over the lifecourse - A 40-year prospective birth cohort study.

Background: The beneficial impacts of greenspace availability on mental health are well-documented. However, longitudinal evidence using a spatial lifecourse perspective is rare, leaving the dynamics of how greenspace influences mental health across the lifecourse unclear. This study first uses prospective birth cohort data to examine the associations between greenspace availability in childhood (0-16 years) and mental health in adolescence (16 years) and between greenspace availability and mental health across adulthood (18-40 years).

Improving neural network classification of indigenous forest in New Zealand with phenological features.

Accurate and up-to-date land cover maps inform and support effective management and policy decisions. Describing phenological changes in spectral response using time-series data may help to distinguish vegetation types, thereby allowing for more specificity within vegetation classification. In this research, we test this by classifying indigenous forest vegetation in New Zealand, using PlanetScope (PS) and Sentinel-2 (S-2) satellite time-series data.

Long-term land cover change in Zambia: An assessment of driving factors.

Land cover change (LCC) has significant effects on the global ecosystem diversity and function. This topic has received increasing attention due, in part, to its relationship with climate change, and the availability of remotely-sensed imagery that is used to monitor LCC. However, studies analysing the factors that drive LCC at large spatial scales and over long temporal scales are uncommon.

City-wide canopy cover decline due to residential property redevelopment in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Urban redevelopment influences urban forests, with consequences for ecosystem service provision. Better understanding the effect of redevelopment on trees in cities can improve management and inform policy, thus having positive effects on ecosystem service provision and human wellbeing. This study quantified the effect of residential property redevelopment on canopy cover change in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Estimating conductive sapwood area in diffuse and ring porous trees with electronic resistance tomography.

Accurately estimating sapwood area is essential for modelling whole-tree or stand-scale transpiration from point-flow sap-flux observations. In this study, we tested the validity of electrical resistance tomography (ERT) to locate the sapwood-heartwood (SW/HW) interface for two ring porous (Quercus nigra L. and Quercus virginiana Mill.