Urban forest biodiversity and cardiovascular disease: Potential health benefits from California’s street trees

Acknowledgments We would like to thank Cindy Blain (Executive Director of California ReLeaf), Nancy J. Hughes (Executive Director of California Urban Forests Council), and Rachel Malarich (City Forest Officer of City of Los Angeles) for helpful discussions regarding the costs and challenges of planting urban trees in California. We would also like to thank Michael Huggins and Viet Nguyen for help with the urban for- est characteristics data. Finally, we would like to thank the private tree companies who shared their data with us and made this analysis possible. Author Contributions Conceptualization: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Data curation: John J. Giacinto, G. Andrew Fricker. Formal analysis: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Funding acquisition: Matthew Ritter, Jenn Yost. Investigation: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Methodology: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Project administration: Jenn Yost, Jacqueline Doremus. Resources: G. Andrew Fricker, Matthew Ritter, Jenn Yost. Software: G. Andrew Fricker. Supervision: Matthew Ritter, Jenn Yost, Jacqueline Doremus. Validation: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Visualization: John J. Giacinto, G. Andrew Fricker, Jacqueline Doremus. Writing – original draft: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. Writing – review & editing: John J. Giacinto, Jacqueline Doremus. References 1. Center for Disease Control (CDC). Vital Signs: Avoidable Deaths From Heart Disease, Stroke, and Hypertensive Disease–United States 2001–2010. 2013 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/ mmwrhtml/mm6235a4.htm?s_cid=mm6235a4_w.

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