with @TahiaDevisscher @CynnamonDobbs @LOrozcoAguilar @MarianaDiasBaptista @NuriaMonicaNavarroPerezdeLeon @DSilvaFilho @FranciscoJEscobedo
@UniversityofBritishColumbia @UniversidadMayor @RMIT @uspoficial.bsky.social @UniversidadRosario @USDA-FS

with @unimelb.bsky.social @DaveKendal @MonikaEgerer @BrendaLin

With the support of
@unimelb.bsky.social
@torontomet.bsky.social
@brocku.ca

With the support of @torontomet.bsky.social @brocku.ca

With @PeterDuinker @JohnSinclair @TomBeckley
@dalhousieu.bsky.social
@umanitoba.bsky.social
@discoverunb.bsky.social
@univalle.bsky.social @UTecPereira @JardínBotánicoBogotá @SimapDagmaCali
@SSHRC-CRSH

With @PeterDuinker @JohnSinclair @TomBeckley
@dalhousieu.bsky.social @umanitoba.bsky.social @UNewBrunswick @UValle @UTecPereira @JardínBotánicoBogotá @SimapDagmaCali
@SSHRC-CRSH

@Peter Duinker @John Sinclair @University of Manitoba @Tom Beckley @Jaclyn Diduck
@Dalhousie University @University of New Brunswick
@SSHRC-CRSH

With @PDuinker @dalhousieu.bsky.social @UValle
@DagmaCali @UniversidadPereira @UniversidadRosario
@SSHRC-CRSH

Here we filled these gaps and asked residents of #Halifax #Calgary how they valued urban forests. Most participants valued urban trees for non-material benefits, such as emotional, social, and intellectual fulfillment. @SPeckham @PDuinker @dalhousieu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...

2) Studies usually focus on the positive things that people think
3) Most studies are in few countries (mostly #US) and extrapolate
4) Most studies generalize about all people but collect data from participants that do not represent all people

Under a project funded by #SSHRC #Canada, I started to look at the evidence on what people said about urban trees. I noticed some key gaps:
1) The terms services, benefits, values, attitudes, and preferences are used interchangeably to mean the same thing.

Many years ago #Colombia I helped restore an urban natural park after illegal mining. Wanting to do more, I enrolled in a PhD on urban forests and trees. I had no clue what #academia #science was, publishing, getting money. The only thing I knew about was teaching! I loved teaching.