| Kategorie |
Textpublikation |
| Referenztyp |
Zeitschriften |
| DOI |
10.1002/pan3.70087
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Lizenz  |
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| Titel (primär) |
Perceived biodiversity: Is what we measure also what we see and hear? |
| Autor |
Rozario, K.; Shaw, T.; Marselle, M.; Oh, R.R.Y.
; Schröger, E.; Botero, M.G.; Frey, J.; Ştefan, V.; Müller, S.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Jaroszewicz, B.; Verheyen, K.; Bonn, A.
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| Quelle |
People and Nature |
| Erscheinungsjahr |
2025 |
| Department |
iDiv; BioP |
| Band/Volume |
7 |
| Heft |
8 |
| Seite von |
2019 |
| Seite bis |
2037 |
| Sprache |
englisch |
| Topic |
T5 Future Landscapes |
| Supplements |
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fpan3.70087&file=pan370087-sup-0001-supinfo.zip |
| Keywords |
bird richness; diversity indices; Dr.FOREST; forest biodiversity; forests; perception; senses; sorting task |
| Abstract |
- Biodiversity is crucial for human health and
well-being. Perceived biodiversity—people's subjective experience of
biodiversity—seems to be particularly relevant for mental well-being.
- Using photographs and audio recordings of forests
that varied in levels of biodiversity, we conducted two sorting studies
to assess how people perceive visual and acoustic diversity and whether
their perceptions align with species richness and proxies for forest
structural diversity (‘actual diversity’). Per study, 48 participants
were asked to sort the stimuli according to any similarity-based sorting
criteria they liked (‘open sorts’) and perceived diversity (‘closed
sorts’).
- The main perceived visual forest characteristics
identified by participants in the open visual sorts were vegetation
density, light conditions, forest structural attributes and colours. The
main perceived acoustic forest characteristics identified in the open
acoustic sorts comprised bird song characteristics, physical properties
such as volume, references to the time of day or seasonality and evoked
emotions.
- Perceived visual and acoustic diversity were significantly correlated with actual visual and acoustic diversity, respectively.
- We further computed several objective visual and
acoustic diversity indices from the photos and audio recordings, for
example, a Greenness Index or the Acoustic Complexity Index, and
assessed their relevance for perceived and actual diversity. While all
acoustic diversity indices were significantly associated with perceived
and actual acoustic diversity, for the visual sense, the Greenness Index
successfully captured both perceived and actual visual diversity.
- Our results suggest that people can perceive
variations in biodiversity levels. Our identified visual and acoustic
forest characteristics may help to better understand perceived diversity
and how it differs from how diversity is measured in biological
studies. We present one visual and several acoustic diversity indices
that quantify aspects of perceived and actual diversity. These indices
may serve as cost-efficient tools to manage and plan greenspaces to
promote biodiversity and mental well-being.
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| dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung |
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=31074 |
Rozario, K., Shaw, T., Marselle, M., Oh, R.R.Y., Schröger, E., Botero, M.G., Frey, J., Ştefan, V., Müller, S., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Jaroszewicz, B., Verheyen, K., Bonn, A. (2025):
Perceived biodiversity: Is what we measure also what we see and hear?
People Nat. 7 (8), 2019 - 2037 10.1002/pan3.70087 |
