Rebecca Spake

Biographic Data

ID6229822
NAMERebecca Spake
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMESpake
SIGNATURESPAKE R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southampton
ORCID0000-0003-4671-2225
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Greenspace quality and proximity are stronger predictors of mental health than quantity or access

    Open AccessRebecca M Collins, Kerry A Brown et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2026

    Compared models of poor mental health with distinct urban greenspace characteristics. • Proxies for greenspace quality and proximity emerged as the strongest predictors. • Greenspace quantity and access were weaker in explaining variation in mental health. • Findings highlight the need to prioritise urban greenspace quality and proximity. As evidence grows for the mental health benefits of urban greenspaces, understanding which specific character…

  • Broad support for lethal control of wild deer among subscribers of nature organisations in England and Wales

    Open AccessElena Cini, Rebecca Spake et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Wild deer populations are increasing across the northern hemisphere, posing challenges to the environment and people. Deer impacts can be managed using lethal and non‐lethal practices, but research suggests lethal control receives mixed support. Differences in perspectives towards management practices may hinder collaborative, landscape‐scale strategies required to achieve resilient ecosystems and tree cover targets. Thus, understanding human‐dee…

  • A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe

    Open AccessStephanie Roilo, Rebecca Spake et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are the main policy tool to counteract farmland biodiversity declines in Europe, but their biodiversity benefit varies across sites and is likely moderated by landscape context. Systematic monitoring of AES outcomes is lacking, and AES assessments are often based on field experiments encompassing one or few study sites. Spatial analysis methods encompassing broader areas are therefore crucial to better understand …

  • The relative effects of access to public greenspace and private gardens on mental health

    Open AccessRebecca M Collins, D Smith et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

    Although the beneficial effects of urban greenspace on mental health are widely accepted, the comparative effects of public greenspace and private (domestic) gardens on mental health are poorly understood. Here, an assessment is provided of the effect of local public greenspace on a person’s mental health for those with and without a private garden in Britain. Individual level data on private garden ownership and mental health status are obtained…

  • A systematic map of research exploring the effect of greenspace on mental health

    Open AccessRebecca M Collins, Rebecca Spake et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

    The past 35 years has seen an accumulation of empirical evidence suggesting a positive association between greenspace and mental health. Existing reviews of evidence are narrow in scope, and do not adequately represent the broad range of disciplines working in this field. This study is the first systematic map of studies investigating greenspace effects on mental health. A total of 6059 papers were screened for their relevance, 276 of which met i…

  • Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion

    Open AccessFelix Eigenbrod, Michael Beckmann et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    The increasing expansion of cropland is major driver of global carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. However, predicting plausible future global distributions of croplands remains challenging. Here, we show that, in general, existing global data aligned with classical economic theories of expansion explain the current (1992) global extent of cropland reasonably well, but not recent expansion (1992-2015). Deviations from models of cropland exten…

  • An analytical framework for spatially targeted management of natural capital

    Open AccessRebecca Spake, Carla Bellamy et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Unpacking ecosystem service bundles

    Open AccessRebecca Spake, Rémy Lasseur et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 13References: 1