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Allergenic Pollen

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This chapter reviews what is known about abundance and distribution of the 12 most important aeroallergenic pollens in Europe: Ambrosia, Alnus, Artemisia, Betula, Chenopodiaceae, Corylus, Cupressaceae/Taxaceae, Olea, Platanus, Poaceae, Quercus and Urtica/Parietaria. Abundance is based on 10 years of pollen records from 521 stations of the European Aeroallergen Network that were interpolated into 12 distribution maps covering most of Europe. The chapter compares the distribution maps with other types of distribution maps that are available for selected tree species and discuss two methods for making harmonized pollen source inventories: “bottom-up” and “top-down”. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages, and both need to be explored and further developed. Remote sensing has shown to be a valuable method to improve the inventories, especially the use of satellites. The full potential as well as limitations of remote sensing in relation to pollen sources remains to be explored. The review suggests that the most probable way of obtaining inventories of all 12 pollen species is to use top-down methods that use an ecosystem-based approach that for each particular species connects ecological preference, pollen counts and remote sensing.

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  1. Department for Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Carsten Ambelas Skjøth

  2. Laboratory for Palynology, Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 2, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Branko Šikoparija

  3. Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Research Group Aerobiology and Pollen Information, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090, Wien, Austria

    Siegfried Jäger

  4. Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Research Group Aerobiology and Pollen Information European Aeroallergen Network, (Community name) – Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090, Wien, Austria

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Skjøth, C.A., Šikoparija, B., Jäger, S., EAN-Network (2013). Pollen Sources. In: Sofiev, M., Bergmann, KC. (eds) Allergenic Pollen. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4881-1_2

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