Changes to Airborne Pollen Counts across Europe

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作者
Ziello, Chiara [1 ]
Sparks, Tim H. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Estrella, Nicole [1 ,2 ]
Belmonte, Jordina [4 ,5 ]
Bergmann, Karl C. [6 ]
Bucher, Edith [7 ]
Brighetti, Maria Antonia [8 ]
Damialis, Athanasios [9 ]
Detandt, Monique [10 ]
Galan, Carmen [11 ]
Gehrig, Regula [12 ]
Grewling, Lukasz [13 ]
Gutierrez Bustillo, Adela M. [14 ]
Hallsdottir, Margret [15 ]
Kockhans-Bieda, Marie-Claire [16 ]
De Linares, Concepcion [4 ,5 ]
Myszkowska, Dorota [17 ]
Paldy, Anna [18 ]
Sanchez, Adriana [1 ]
Smith, Matthew [19 ]
Thibaudon, Michel [20 ]
Travaglini, Alessandro [8 ]
Uruska, Agnieszka [21 ]
Valencia-Barrera, Rosa M. [22 ]
Vokou, Despoina [9 ]
Wachter, Reinhard [23 ]
de Weger, Letty A. [24 ]
Menzel, Annette [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Tech Univ Munich, Chair Ecoclimatol, Freising Weihenstephan, Germany
[2] Tech Univ Munich, Inst Adv Study, D-8046 Garching, Germany
[3] Poznan Univ Life Sci, Inst Zool, Poznan, Poland
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Bot Unit, Bellaterra, Spain
[5] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Environm Sci & Technol ICTA, Bellaterra, Spain
[6] Charite, Allergie Ctr Charite, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
[7] Agenzia Prov Ambiente, Biol Lab, Laives, BZ, Italy
[8] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento Biol, I-00173 Rome, Italy
[9] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Sch Biol, Dept Ecol, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
[10] Sci Inst Publ Hlth, Sect Mycol & Aerobiol, Brussels, Belgium
[11] Univ Cordoba, Dept Bot Ecol & Plant Physiol, Cordoba, Spain
[12] Fed Off Meteorol & Climatol MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland
[13] Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Lab Aeropalynol, Poznan, Poland
[14] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Plant Biol 2, Madrid, Spain
[15] Iceland Inst Nat Hist, Gardabaer, Iceland
[16] Ctr Hosp Luxembourg, Stn Aerobiol, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
[17] Jagiellonian Univ, Coll Med, Dept Clin & Environm Allergol, Krakow, Poland
[18] Natl Inst Environm Hlth, Dept Biol, Budapest, Hungary
[19] Univ Worcester, Natl Pollen & Aerobiol Res Unit, Worcester, England
[20] Reseau Natl Surveillance Aerobiol, Brussieu, France
[21] Univ Gdansk, Lab Palaeoecol & Archaeobot, PL-80952 Gdansk, Poland
[22] Univ Leon, Dept Biodivers & Environm Management, E-24071 Leon, Spain
[23] Polleninformat Dienst Deutschland PID, Ganderkesee, Germany
[24] Leiden Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Pulmonol, Leiden, Netherlands
来源
PLOS ONE | 2012年 / 7卷 / 04期
关键词
AMBROSIA-ARTEMISIIFOLIA L; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ALLERGENIC POLLEN; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; COMMON RAGWEED; PUBLIC-HEALTH; AEROALLERGENS; URBANIZATION; IMPACTS; SEASONS;
D O I
10.1371/journal.pone.0034076
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A progressive global increase in the burden of allergic diseases has affected the industrialized world over the last half century and has been reported in the literature. The clinical evidence reveals a general increase in both incidence and prevalence of respiratory diseases, such as allergic rhinitis (common hay fever) and asthma. Such phenomena may be related not only to air pollution and changes in lifestyle, but also to an actual increase in airborne quantities of allergenic pollen. Experimental enhancements of carbon dioxide (CO2) have demonstrated changes in pollen amount and allergenicity, but this has rarely been shown in the wider environment. The present analysis of a continental-scale pollen data set reveals an increasing trend in the yearly amount of airborne pollen for many taxa in Europe, which is more pronounced in urban than semi-rural/rural areas. Climate change may contribute to these changes, however increased temperatures do not appear to be a major influencing factor. Instead, we suggest the anthropogenic rise of atmospheric CO2 levels may be influential.
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