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Most of the pollution removal impacts of trees 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.

Nowak, D.J., Hirabayashi, S., Bodine, A., and Greenfield, E.

(2014). Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States. Environmental Pollution, 193, 119-129.

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