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Airborne pollen distribution in Denizli Province was measured volumetrically during 2 consecutive years, 2005 and 2006, on a weekly basis. A total of 11,981 pollen grains/m3 belonging to 42 taxa were determined. In 2005 the total was 5368 pollen grains/m3 and in 2006 it was 6613 pollen grains/m3. Among the taxa recorded, 26 belonged to arboreal and...
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This study was conducted for determining the plant taxa of the pollen grain in the atmosphere of the city center of Sinop (Turkey) and investigating the effects of meteorological factors on pollen concentration, by analyzing daily, weekly and monthly changes in the atmosphere. The types and amounts of pollen grain in the atmosphere were determined...
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... The first atmospheric pollen analysis study in Türkiye was conducted by Aytuğ et al. (1966) in the Belgrad Forest, Istanbul. Following this study, many atmospheric pollen analysis studies have been carried out and many pollen calendars of different provinces such as Samsun (Yurdukoru 1979), Antalya (İnce and Pehlivan 1990), Ankara (İnceoğlu et al. 1994(İnceoğlu et al. , Pınar et al. 1999, Bursa (Bıçakçı et al. 1999), Sivas ( Pehlivan and Özler, 1995), Düzce ( Kaplan and Serbes, 2004), Balıkesir (Bıçakçı and Akyalçın 2000); Burdur (Bıçakçı et al. 2000a), Isparta (Bıçakçı et al. 2000b), Denizli (Çelik et al. 2005Güvensen et al. 2013); Çanakkale (Güvensen et al. 2005); Sakarya (Bıçakçı 2006), Kırklareli (Erkan et al. 2011), Kastamonu (Çeter et al. 2012, Mardin (Tosunoğlu et al. 2018) have been created accordingly. These studies have been conducted on a provincial or regional basis, but pollen calendars have not been created specifically for parks and groves up to now. ...
Pollen calendars created for residential areas play a vital role in protecting and treating the sufferers of allergic diseases. In this regard, gravimetric and volumetric pollen traps are placed in the city and town centers. In the process of creating the Emirgan Grove’s pollen calendar, the gravimetric method was utilized together with the Durham sampler between March and September 2020. During this seasonal year, a total of 13464 pollen grains were recorded. According to the obtained pollen analysis results, the pollen grains of 44 taxa including 32 arboreal and 12 non-arboreal taxa were determined. Total pollen grains consisted of 90.95 % grains from arboreal plants, 9.05 % grains from non-arboreal plants. The period with the highest amount of pollen was detected as April. The taxon with the highest pollen concentration was Pinus. In terms of pollen concentrations, Pinus was followed by Cupressaceae, Tilia, Abies, Poaceae, Prunus, Morus and Quercus respectively. This study has been the first pollen calendar study conducted for groves and parks in Turkey.
... First palynological studies for Turkey began at the end of the 1960s and mostly Durham samplers were used. These studies have resulted with many pollen calendars of Turkey (14)(15)(16)(17)(18). ...
... Bu ülkelerde yapılan bazı çalışmalarda bitkiye ait polenlerin alerjik reaksiyonlarda artışa sebep olduğu ve deri prick testlerinde polinosis hastalarının bu polenlere karşı duyarlılık gösterdiği saptanmıştır [1, 2,20]. Ülkemizde yapılan aeropalinolojik çalışmalarda özellikle Akdeniz ikliminin etkisindeki bölgelerde bu taksona ait polenler havada yüksek oranlarda tespit edilmiştir [21][22][23][24]. ...
... Portugal, and its relationship with meteorological parameters. Aerobiologia,19,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27] ...
Bu çalışmada zeytin ağaçlarının geniş yayılış gösterdiği Aydın, Manisa ve Muğla atmosferlerindeki Olea europaea L. polenlerinin dağılımları incelenmiştir. Volumetrik yöntem ile 2014-2016 yılları arasında gerçekleştirilen çalışmada bu taksona ait polenlerin yıllık değişimleri ve polen sezonu üzerinde meteorolojik faktörlerin etkisi incelendi. İki yıllık çalışma süresince zeytin polenlerine en fazla rastlanan ilin Aydın olduğu görüldü. Bu şehirde zeytin polenlerinin atmosferde kaydedilen tüm polenlerin %20.92’sini oluşturduğu ve baskın taksonlar içerisinde ilk sırada yer aldığı belirlendi. Bununla beraber, zeytin polenleri Manisa ve Muğla’da sırasıyla %15.55 ve %7.16 ile üçüncü sırada yer aldı. Bu bitkinin polenleri tüm bölgelerde en fazla Mayıs ayında kaydedildi, ancak esas polen dönemlerinin çalışılan iller ve yıllar arasındaki meteorolojik değişimlerin etkisiyle farklılıklar gösterdiği görüldü. Diğer taraftan bu taksona ait günlük polen sayıları, meteorolojik faktörlerle korale edildi ve günlük ortalama sıcaklık (oC), günlük toplam yağış (mm) ve günlük ortalama nisbi nem (%) ile günlük polen sayıları arasında Spearman korelasyon testine göre anlamlı sonuçlar bulundu (p<0.01, p<0.05).
... 14 18 countries were included from a European-wide trend study concerning Ambrosia pollen (Sikoparija et al., 2017). Further data were included from studies conducted in Germany Turkey (Güvensen et al., 2013), Van, Turkey (Bicakci et al., 2017), Hatay, Turkey (Tosunoglu et al., 2018), Perm, Russia (Novoselova and Minaeva, 2015), 12 sites from Norway (e.g. Bicakci et al., 2017;Tosunoglu et al., 2018) Finland (Manninen et al., 2014) and 5 sites from central/northern Russia that documented no Ambrosia pollen deposition from the air (Nosova et al., 2015). ...
Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) is a widely distributed and harmful invasive plant that is an important source of highly allergenic pollen grains and a prominent cropweed. As a result, ragweed causes huge costs to both human health and agriculture in affected areas. Efficient mitigation requires accurate mapping of ragweed densities that, until now, has not been achieved accurately for the whole of Europe. Here we provide two inventories of common ragweed abundances with grid resolutions of 1 km and 10 km. These “top-down” inventories integrate pollen data from 349 stations in Europe with habitat and landscape management information, derived
from land cover data and expert knowledge. This allows us to cover areas where surface observations are missing. Model results were validated using “bottom–up” data of common ragweed in Austria and Serbia. Results show high agreement between the two analytical methods. The inventory shows that areas with the lowest ragweed abundances are found in Northern and Southern European countries and the highest abundances are in parts of Russia, parts of Ukraine and the Pannonian Plain. Smaller hotspots are found in Northern Italy, the Rhône Valley in France and in Turkey. The top-down approach is based on a new approach that allows for cross-continental studies and is applicable to other anemophilous species. Due to its simplicity, it can be used to investigate such species that are difficult and costly to identify at larger scales using traditional vegetation surveys or
emote sensing. The final inventory is open source and available as a georeferenced tif file, allowing for multiple usages, reducing costs for health services and agriculture through well-targeted management interventions.
... The highest count was recorded in the first and second weeks of June and in the first week of July (Erkan et al. 2011). In the atmosphere of Denizli (Turkey), Olea pollen dominated from the second week of April until the second week of July with the highest values in the first week of June (Güvensen et al. 2013). ...
The diversity of airborne pollen grains in El-Hadjar town (northeast Algeria) was measured for 1 year, from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013, by means of the gravimetric method using Durham apparatus. The total number of pollen grains/cm(2) was calculated from slides that were changed daily. This aerobiological study documented the air concentration of pollen from 50 taxa, where 28 belonged to arboreal and 22 to non-arboreal taxa. The percentage of pollen from arboreal and non-arboreal taxa was 56 and 44 %, respectively. From the list, the major collected taxa causing allergy in humans dominant in the Mediterranean area were Cupressaceae (14.86 %), Olea sp. (7.18 %), Casuarina sp. (6.44 %), and Fraxinus sp. (3.83 %) among arboreal plants, whereas for the non-arboreal plants Poaceae (23.20 %), Mercurialis sp. (12.58 %), Plantago sp. (1.69 %), Urticaceae (0.95 %), and Chenopodiaceae (0.85 %). The highest pollen counts occurred in the period from February to April. The pollen calendar for the region presented in this paper may be a useful tool for allergologists and botanical awareness.
... These taxa accounted for 9.02% of the total pollen content (Table 1). In Turkey, Poaceae is frequently found as nonarboreal pollen in the atmosphere (Bilişik et al., 2008;Altunoglu et al., 2008;Güvensen et al., 2013;Tosunoğlu et al., 2013). ...
An aeropalynological survey of the atmosphere of Büyükorhan in Bursa Province was carried out from January 2012 to December 2013 using a Durham gravimetric sampler. The number of pollen grains per cm2was calculated on a weekly basis. Over 2 years a total of 13,274 pollen grains/cm2 from 44 taxa, including 24 arboreal plants (APs) and 20 nonarboreal plants (NAPs), and unidentified pollen grains were recorded. In 2012 and 2013, respectively, 5159 and 8115 pollen grains were recorded. The pollen grains consisted of 87.46% APs, 12.20% NAPs, and 0.35% unidentified plants. Pinus, Cupressaceae/Taxaceae, Quercus, Poaceae, Morus, Plantago, Olea europaea, and Cedrus were responsible for the highest pollen amounts in the study area. The highest number of pollen grains (49.84%) was recorded during May.
... Pollen in particular, as many researchers suggest, is believed to cause allergic diseases, whose frequency typically peaks from the middle of May to the middle of August. That is why the majority of research work to date deals with highly allergenic compounds in air suspensions (or aeroallergens) like fungi spores and plant pollen, produced during warm seasons [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. ...
Paper presents an analysis of airborne biogenic particles (1 mkm–1 mm) found in the snow in several cities of the Russian Far East during 2010–2013. The most common was vegetational terraneous detritus (fragments of tree and grass leaves) followed by animal hair, small insects and their fragments, microorganisms of aeroplankton, and equivocal biological garbage. Specific components were found in samples from locations close to bodies of water such as fragments of algae and mollusc shells and, marine invertebrates (needles of sea urchins and shell debris of arthropods). In most locations across the Far East (Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and Ussuriysk), the content of biogenic particles collected in the winter did not exceed 10% of the total particulate matter, with the exception of Birobidzhan and the nature reserve Bastak, where it made up to 20%. Most of all biogenic compounds should be allergic: hair, fragments of tree and grass leaves, insects, and microorganisms.
... The highest pollen concentration was recorded in March with 3.33 % of the API (Table 2). Platanus pollen grains were reported as a predominant pollen type also from Istanbul-NW Turkey (Celenk et al. 2010), Bursa-NW Turkey (Bicakci et al. 2003), Kusadasi, SW Turkey (Tosunoglu et al. 2013), and Denizli, SW Turkey (Guvensen et al. 2013). The Platanus species Table 3). ...
Airborne pollen distribution in Antalya was measured volumetrically during 2 consecutive years, 2008 and 2009. A total of 30,497 pollen grains/m3 belonging to 44 taxa were recorded annually during the study period. Among the taxa recorded, 27 belonged to arboreal (88.29 %) and 17 to non-arboreal taxa (11.53 %). Seven plant taxa taken as predominant pollen types with the greatest influence in the atmosphere, Cupressaceae/Taxaceae (38.33 %), Pinus (24.18 %), Olea europaea (6.86 %), Morus (5.17 %), Poaceae (4.88 %), Platanus (4.66 %) and Quercus (4.58 %), showed maximum pollen distribution in the atmosphere. The season of maximum pollen concentration was from February to May, with a high prevalence of arboreal pollen grains.
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Objective: This study aimed to examine juniper-pollen levels in Denizli, Turkey, analyze the effect of meteorological factors on the airborne pollen concentrations, and determine the correlation between pollen counts and clinical symptoms in juniper-pollen monosensitive individuals.
Material and Methods: This study was conducted on 14 participants who were detected between 2008 and 2013 with juniper-pollen monosensitivity in the allergy clinic of our hospital. Patients were requested to fill an allergic rhinitis (AR) symptom score sheet daily, and the symptom score data were collected at regular weekly control periods. Juniper-pollen calendar was established using the volumetric method. Meteorological data were obtained from the local meteorology institute.
Results: Juniper pollination season was found to be between the fourth week of January and the fourth week of September. Peak juniper-pollen level was observed in March with 843 pollen grains per m3. Total symptom scores (TSS) of the participants showed significant correlation with the pollen levels (p=0.006, r=0.67). Pollen levels showed a positive correlation with temperature (p=0.002, r=0.739), a negative correlation with humidity (p=0.008, r=−0.653), and did not show any significant correlation with wind speed or precipitation levels.
Conclusion: Juniper-pollen counts show a significant and positive correlation with clinical symptoms in juniper-pollen monosensitizied individuals.
Keywords: Allergy, airborne pollen concentration, juniper pollen, sensitization
