Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2007-08-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0149PMID 17504734PMCID PMC2390667
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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