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Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Pollution, July 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 13,536)
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78 news outlets
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10 blogs
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6 policy sources
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226 X users
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3 Facebook pages
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1 Wikipedia page
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1 Google+ user
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2 YouTube creators

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Title
Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States
Published in
Environmental Pollution, July 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.028
Pubmed ID
Authors

David J. Nowak, Satoshi Hirabayashi, Allison Bodine, Eric Greenfield

Abstract

Trees remove air pollution by the interception of particulate matter on plant surfaces and the absorption of gaseous pollutants through the leaf stomata. However, the magnitude and value of the effects of trees and forests on air quality and human health across the United States remains unknown. Computer simulations with local environmental data reveal that trees and forests in the conterminous United States removed 17.4 million tonnes (t) of air pollution in 2010 (range: 9.0-23.2 million t), with human health effects valued at 6.8 billion U.S. dollars (range: $1.5-13.0 billion). This pollution removal equated to an average air quality improvement of less than one percent. Most of the pollution removal occurred in rural areas, while most of the health impacts and values were within urban areas. Health impacts included the avoidance of more than 850 incidences of human mortality and 670,000 incidences of acute respiratory symptoms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 1006 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 174 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 149 14%
Researcher 133 13%
Student > Bachelor 112 11%
Other 46 4%
Other 141 14%
Unknown 274 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 262 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 139 14%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 53 5%
Engineering 51 5%
Social Sciences 34 3%
Other 158 15%
Unknown 332 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 862. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2024.
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#20,970
of 25,559,053 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Pollution
#6
of 13,536 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#114
of 240,882 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Pollution
#1
of 44 outputs
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