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Comparison of Alnus, Corylus, Betula pollen seasons in Riga, Moscow and Vilnius

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Research characterizes differences and similarities of the seasonal behaviour of Alnus, Betula, Corylus pollen in Riga, Moscow and Vilnius. An important uniting factor dealing with the research is that on the selected territories in spring there are abundance of Alnus, Corylus and Betula airborne pollen. The study is based on the 2004–2011 atmospheric pollen records. Differences and similarities of the analysed territories include the following: (1) the beginning of the Alnus and Corylus pollen season usually coincided in Riga and Vilnius, whereas significantly differed between Riga and Moscow; (2) no significant differences among separate stations have been estimated concerning the beginning of the Betula pollen season; (3) Moscow differed by the shortest period of pollen season, independently of the pollen type; (4) the biennial cycle of Betula pollen is characteristic to Riga only; (5) in the spectrum of spring plants’ pollen, Corylus pollen was found in the least amount (10–23 pgm−3 per day on the average); (6) average concentration of Betula pollen per day significantly differed in all locations of the survey, in Moscow, the concentration (853 pgm−3) was twice higher that in Riga and Vilnius; (7) Alnus, Corylus and Betula pollen seasons overlap each other in all locations surveyed, thus creating additional load of pollen; (8) in each of the stations, there were 13–15 days when concentration of Betula pollen exceeded 100 pgm−3.

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    Ingrida Šaulienė & Laura Šukienė

  2. Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Vorob’evy Gory, 119992, Moscow, Russia

    Elena Severova

  3. Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Rainis Boulevard 19, Riga, 1586, Latvia

    Laimdota Kalnina

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Šaulienė, I., Šukienė, L., Severova, E. et al. Comparison of Alnus, Corylus, Betula pollen seasons in Riga, Moscow and Vilnius. Aerobiologia 30, 423–433 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10453-014-9341-7

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