Spatial and temporal variations in airborne Ambrosia pollen in Europe
Sikoparija, B. (BioSense Institute. Research Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems. University of Novi Sad (Serbia))
Skjøth, C. A. (National Pollen and Aerobiology Unit. Institute of Science and the Environment. University of Worcester)
Celenk, S. (Biology Department. Science Faculty. Uludağ University. (Turkey))
Testoni, C. (Local Health Authority Milano (Italy))
Abramidze, T. (Center of Allergy and Immunology (Georgia))
Alm Kübler, K. (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Belmonte, Jordina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Berger, U. (Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. Medical University of Vienna (Austria))
Bonini, M. (Local Health Authority Milano (Italy))
Charalampopoulos, A. (Department of Ecology. School of Biology. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece))
Damialis, Athanasios (German Research Center for Environmental Health (Germany))
Clot, B. (Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss (Switzerland))
Dahl, Å. (Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. University of Gothenburg (Sweden))
de Weger, Letty A.. (Department of Pulmonology. Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands))
Gehrig, R. (Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss (Switzerland))
Hendrickx, M. (Belgian Aerobiology Network. Scientific Institute of Public Health. (Belgium))
Hoebeke, L. (Belgian Aerobiology Network. Scientific Institute of Public Health. (Belgium))
Ianovici, N. (Faculty of Chemistry-Biology-Geography, West University of Timisoara. (Romania))
Kofol Seliger, A. (Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia)
Magyar, D. (National Public Health Center (Hungary))
Mányoki, G. (National Public Health Center (Hungary))
Milkovska, S. (Institute of Occupational Health - WHO Collaborating Center. (Macedonia))
Myszkowska, D. (Department of Clinical and Environmental Allergology. Jagiellonian University Medical College. (Poland))
Páldy, A. (National Public Health Center (Hungary))
Pashley, C. H. (Institute for Lung Health. Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation. University of Leicester)
Rasmussen, K. (Astma-Allergi Danmark (Denmark))
Ritenberga, Olga (Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences. University of Latvia (Riga))
Rodinkova, V. (Vinnitsa National Pirogov Memorial Medical University. (Ukraine))
Rybníček, O. (Faculty of Medicine. Masaryk University.(Czech Republic))
Shalaboda, V. (V. F. Kuprevich Institute for Experimental Botany of the NAS of Belarus)
Sauliene, Ingrida (Department of Environmental Research. Siauliai University. (Lithuania))
Ščevková, J. (Faculty of Natural Sciences. Comenius University Bratislava.(Slovakia))
Stjepanović, B. (Institute of Public Health "Dr Andrija Štampar" (Croatia))
Thibaudon, M. (Réseau National de Surveillance Aérobiologique (France))
Verstraeten, C. (Belgian Aerobiology Network. Scientific Institute of Public Health. (Belgium))
Vokou, Despoina (Department of Ecology. School of Biology. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece))
Yankova, R. (Clinical Center of Allergology. University Hospital Sofia. (Bulgaria))
Smith, M. (Institute of Science and the Environment. University of Worcester)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	The European Commission Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action FA1203 "SMARTER" aims to make recommendations for the sustainable management of Ambrosia across Europe and for monitoring its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The goal of the present study is to provide a baseline for spatial and temporal variations in airborne Ambrosia pollen in Europe that can be used for the management and evaluation of this noxious plant. The study covers the full range of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. distribution over Europe (39°N-60°N; 2°W-45°E). Airborne Ambrosia pollen data for the principal flowering period of Ambrosia (August-September) recorded during a 10-year period (2004-2013) were obtained from 242 monitoring sites. The mean sum of daily average airborne Ambrosia pollen and the number of days that Ambrosia pollen was recorded in the air were analysed. The mean and standard deviation (SD) were calculated regardless of the number of years included in the study period, while trends are based on those time series with 8 or more years of data. Trends were considered significant at p < 0. 05. There were few significant trends in the magnitude and frequency of atmospheric Ambrosia pollen (only 8% for the mean sum of daily average Ambrosia pollen concentrations and 14% for the mean number of days Ambrosia pollen were recorded in the air). The direction of any trends varied locally and reflected changes in sources of the pollen, either in size or in distance from the monitoring station. Pollen monitoring is important for providing an early warning of the expansion of this invasive and noxious plant.
Note:	We acknowledge support from EU COST Action FA1203 "Sustainable management of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in Europe (SMARTER)". This work was partly financed by the following COST Short Term Scientific Missions: COST-STSM-FA1203-020215-053027 to CT, COST-STSM-FA1203-20573, ECOST-STSM-FA1203-250415-058150. Skjøth is supported by European Commission through a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (Project ID CIG631745)
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Aerobiology ; Ragweed ; Invasive alien species ; Allergen ; Exposure
Published in:	Aerobiologia, Vol. 33, Num. 2 (June 2017) , p. 181-189

DOI: 10.1007/s10453-016-9463-1
PMID: 28579673

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