Marine wildlife as an important component of coastal visits: The role of perceived biodiversity and species behaviour

White, Mathew P.; Weeks, Abigail; Hooper, Tom; Bleakley, Luke; Cracknell, Deborah; Lovell, Rebecca; Jefferson, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2017.01.005

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“…The number of participants varied considerably among the recently published studies: ranging from 35 (Johansson et al 2014) through to the millions (with the use of data from the national census, Wheeler et al 2015). Participant type also differed, including university students (Cracknell et al 2016(Cracknell et al , 2017Saw et al 2015) and staff (Johansson et al 2014), adults participating over the internet (White et al 2017;Wolf et al 2017), group walkers over the age of 55 (Marselle et al 2015;Marselle et al 2016), park users (Carrus et al 2015), visitors to forests (Foo 2016), and residents of specific countries or regions as previously detailed (Annerstedt van den Bosch 2015;Cox et al 2017;Duarte-Tagles et al 2015;Jones 2017;Rantakokko et al 2018;Wheeler et al 2015).…”

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“…7, this volume). Specifically, 9 studies (Annerstedt van den Bosch, et al 2015;Cox et al 2017;Cracknell et al 2016Cracknell et al , 2017Foo 2016;Marselle et al 2015Marselle et al , 2016Saw et al 2015;White et al 2017) used the Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan and Kaplan 1989;Kaplan 1995) and the Stress Reduction Theory (Ulrich 1983;Ulrich et al 1991) to explain the effects of biodiversity on mental health and/or well-being. Additionally, the Biophilia hypothesis (Kellert and Wilson 1993) was also mentioned (Annerstedt van den Bosch et al 2015; Carrus et al 2015;Saw et al 2015;Wolf et al 2017), as was appraisal theory (Johansson et al 2014).…”

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“…low vs. high based on assessment of content in images or videos (Cracknell et al 2017;Wolf et al 2017)). Participants' perception of species richness was employed in 3 studies (Marselle et al 2015(Marselle et al , 2016White et al 2017). At the species community level, abundance of a specific taxonomic group (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…General mental health was assessed by Foo (2016) who utilised scales specifically developed for the study. Mental well-being was examined in 13 studies (Carrus et al 2015;Cracknell et al 2016Cracknell et al , 2017Foo 2016;Johansson et al 2014;Jones 2017;Marselle et al 2015Marselle et al , 2016Rantakokko et al 2018;Saw et al 2015;Wheeler et al 2015;White et al 2017;Wolf et al 2017). The majority assessed emotions (Cracknell et al 2016(Cracknell et al , 2017Johansson et al 2014;Jones 2017;Marselle et al 2015Marselle et al , 2016White et al 2017;Wolf et al 2017) using standardised self-report measures such as the PANAS (Marselle et al 2015(Marselle et al , 2016Wolf et al 2017), the Feeling Scale and Felt Arousal Scale (Cracknell et al 2016;White et al 2017), and the Basic Emotional Process 12 (Johansson et al 2014).…”

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“…However, the majority of studies investigated the amount of biodiversity near to the home without specifying the type of contact (Annerstedt van den Bosch et al 2015;Cox et al 2017;Duarte-Tagles et al 2015;Jones 2017;Rantakokko et al 2018;Saw et al 2015;Wheeler et al 2015). Five studies, all experimental, considered indirect contact with biodiversity (Cracknell et al 2016(Cracknell et al , 2017Johansson et al 2014;White et al 2017;Wolf et al 2017). In these studies, participants experienced biodiversity indirectly by viewing photographs (Cracknell et al 2017;Johansson et al 2014;White et al 2017), videos (Wolf et al 2017) or an aquarium exhibit (Cracknell et al 2016).…”

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Little is known about the contribution that biodiversity has on mental health and well-being. To date, only one systematic review has investigated the health and well-being benefits from contact with biodiversity (Lovell et al. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 17(1):1-20, 2014). The number of research studies investigating the health and well-being effects of biodiversity has increased since this publication. Here, we provide an update, focusing on the impact of biodiversity on mental health and well-being. Our objectives are to: (i) identify and describe the literature published after 2012; and (ii) synthesise all results from Lovell et al. (J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 17(1):1-20, 2014) and the more recently published literature to assess whether biodiversity influences mental health and wellbeing. Sixteen recently published studies met the inclusion criteria. The literature is varied with different study designs, measures of biodiversity, mental health and well-being. The synthesis of results was drawn from 24 studies: nine from Lovell et al.

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1. Biodiversity is increasingly understood as an important mediator of human aesthetic appreciation of scenes and landscapes, with implications for cultural services and well-being. However, the generality of biodiversity effects across affective emotions, scales and habitats remains unclear.2. Urban coastal intertidal habitats on seawalls and other artificial structures are expanding worldwide. Despite growing calls to prioritise biodiversity in urban coastal planning and management, the potential co-benefits determined by people's responses to biodiversity in these novel intertidal communities are unexplored.3. We investigated, using image-based questionnaires, how several facets of biodiversity influence how people perceive urban coastal structures at both landscape and close-up scales.4. Species richness strongly enhanced people's ratings of images for aesthetic appeal, interest and calming potential at both scales, but was more pronounced at the close-up scale. Species evenness also increased ratings at the close-up scale, while functional diversity (Rao's Q) was associated with a decline in aesthetic appeal and interest at the close-up scale, indicating that people can disfavour scenes dominated by species with contrasting traits. 5. Analysis of free-text assessments showed that people strongly and positively valued scenes that were perceived to be 'diverse', a response that was much more common when viewing scenes with high species richness. The underlying structure type also clearly affected appraisals, with more obviously engineered structures being perceived to be less natural and thus less desirable. 6. Our results show that biodiversity's effects on aesthetic appreciation extend to multiple affective emotions and to unfamiliar urban intertidal habitats, suggesting that managing these environments for biodiversity may simultaneously support aesthetic, educational and well-being benefits. Nevertheless, the sensitivity of responses to the facet of biodiversity and viewing scale in our results underlines the context dependency and complexity of people's perceptions of urban environments.

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Marine wildlife as an important component of coastal visits: The role of perceived biodiversity and species behaviour

Cited by 57 publications

References 54 publications

Review of the Mental Health and Well-being Benefits of Biodiversity

Review of the Mental Health and Well-being Benefits of Biodiversity

An experimental test of the impact of avian diversity on attentional benefits and enjoyment of people experiencing urban green‐space

Species diversity enhances perceptions of urban coastlines at multiple scales

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