Fig 1.
Potential ecosystem service provision gap between urban and rural green-spaces.
The slopes of the relationships between green-space visitation rate and biodiversity knowledge (i.e. educational ecosystem services) and associated support for conservation may be shallower for visits to urban than rural green-space, generating a gap in provision of educational ecosystem services between urban and rural green-space. This divergence in service provision may arise from exposure to less diverse biotic assemblages in urban areas that typically comprise generalist species of limited conservation concern.
Fig 2.
Annual visitation rates of urban residents to urban green-space and the countryside—many urban residents visit green-space, especially the countryside, infrequently.
Table 1.
Multiple regression models of biodiversity knowledge and conservation support as a function of visitation rates to urban green-space and the countryside.
Table 2.
Regression models of biodiversity knowledge and conservation support as a function of both green-space visitation rates (countryside and urban green-space) and potentially confounding factors (garden use, natural history program engagement and being a member of a conservation organization).
Table 3.
Multiple regression models of conservation support as a function of biodiversity knowledge.
Table 4.
Multiple regression models of green-space visitation rates, biodiversity knowledge, and conservation support as a function of local scale urbanization intensity and city size, without controlling for social factors (see S8 Table for equivalent models that take social factors into account).