Vegetation diversity protects against childhood asthma: Results from a large New Zealand birth cohort

Nature Plants

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 358-364

  Donovan, Geoffrey H ^a   Gatziolis, Demetrios ^b   Longley, Ian ^c   Douwes, Jeroen ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CONIFER; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PLANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; ULEX;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONIFEROPHYTA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PLANTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ULEX;

EID: 85046548287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0151-8     Document Type: Article

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