Participants rated wildlife, trees and ecosystems as the most central features of the natural environment and features associated with people as much less central

Participants first listed freely what belongs to the natural environment, then rated how central each of those features is to nature. Wildlife, trees and ecosystems came out as the most central. Features associated with people were rated much less central, and scenarios built from highly prototypical features were rated higher in naturalness than scenarios built from less prototypical ones.

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