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... Airborne pollen calendars are useful to estimate the flowering season of the different plants as well as to indicate the allergenic potential present in the atmosphere at a given time. In this study, it is presented a 10-year survey of the atmospheric concentration of allergenic pollen types. Airborne pollen was performed, from 2003 to 2012, using a 7-day Hirst-type volumetric trap. The interannua ...
... Pollen, stomates and macrofossils were analysed from a 3.63 m sediment core at Jan Lake, eastcentral Alaska, in order to improve spatial resolution of patterns of vegetation history in this region. The chronology was based on 19 AMS ¹⁴C dates on plant macrofossils and concentrated pollen. Zone Jan-I (12400-11 600 yr BP) records a unique herb-tundra pollen assemblage, particularly high in Chenopodi ...
... A palynological study was performed on a 2m thick sediment sequence recovered from Mire Kupena (1356m), a former lake in the Western Rhodopes Mountains (south Bulgaria) and supported by radiocarbon dating. The record extends back to ca. 30,000cal. yrs. BP (Middle Pleniglacial) when the study area was occupied by wooded steppe composed of Pinus sp., Pinus peuce, some Betula, Juniperus, and cold-tol ...
... Intradermal tests (IDTs) and measurement of specific immunoglobulin E class (sIgE) levels in sera are the most common and reliable methods used in allergological clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to explore the sensitization of pollen allergy in atopic horses with pollinosis and to assess the diagnostic value of the multiple allergen simultaneous tests (MASTs) compared with that of ...
... We aim to obtain composition of the regional vegetation from the pollen record in the high mountains, to use it in the interpretation of the pollen record from the lowlands via a Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA), and to then compare the pedoanthracological data with the LRA result based on dissimilarity coefficient.We used five pollen sequences from summits of the Eastern Sudetes (NE Czech ...
root diseases; mathematical models; disease detection; forest decline; forest trees; Alnus; Phytophthora; signs and symptoms (plants); fungal diseases of plants; dead wood; inoculum density; risk factors; tree diseases; plant pathogenic fungi; statistical analysis; disease surveillance; disease incidence; France
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... In some diseases--in particular, tree root infection--stages of infection and inoculum production level and timing are not readily observable because of uncertainty or time lags in symptom appearance. Here, we pose a criterion, based on relative hazard of disease symptoms, to discriminate between healthy and asymptomatic infected individuals. We design a statistical procedure to estimate the crite ...
... Reliable information on past and present vegetation is important to project future changes, especially for rapidly transitioning areas such as the boreal treeline. To study past vegetation, pollen analysis is common, while current vegetation is usually assessed by field surveys. Application of detailed sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) records has the potential to enhance our understanding of vegetation ch ...
... This study was aimed to investigate thoroughly the diarylheptanoids in the n-BuOH soluble fraction of leaves of Alnus formosana in order to examine their anti-inflammatory activities. The application of HPLC-SPE-NMR as a preliminary chemical screening led to characterization of eleven compounds. Further separation resulted in isolation of 28 compounds, of which 10 diarylheptanoids and 2-coumaroylx ...
Liang Wei; Chonggang Xu; Steven Jansen; Hang Zhou; Bradley O Christoffersen; William T Pockman; Richard S Middleton; John D Marshall; Nate G McDowell; David Whitehead
... Woody plants vary in their adaptations to drought and shade. For a better prediction of vegetation responses to drought and shade within dynamic global vegetation models, it is critical to group species into functional types with similar adaptations. One of the key challenges is that the adaptations are generally determined by a large number of plant traits that may not be available for a large nu ...
... A sediment core that spans the last c. 15 000 yr BP was raised from Elgennya Lake (62°05'N 149°00'E, 1040 m) which is located near the altitudinal forest limit in the western Annachag Mountains of the Upper Kolyma region, northeastern Siberia. Palynological data indicate the presence of a relatively unpro ductive herb-Salix tundra during full-glacial times. Although Betula shrubs first appeared in ...
... Palynological and sedimentological analyses of lacustrine cores from Baker Island, located in southeastern Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago, indicate that the beginning of the Younger Dryas chronozone, between approximately 12,900 cal yr BP and approximately 12,600 cal yr BP, was cooler and drier than modern conditions, based on decreases in the percentages of Pinus (pine) and Tsuga mertensiana (mou ...
... Sediment cores from Lone Spruce Pond (60.007°N, 159.143°W), southwestern Alaska, record paleoenvironmental changes during the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and during the last 14,500 calendar years BP (14.5 cal ka). We analyzed the abundance of organic matter, biogenic silica, carbon, and nitrogen, and the isotope ratios of C and N, magnetic susceptibility, and grain-size distribution of ...
... Based on opportunistic collections of fungi in Panama, two species of Diatrypaceae (Xylariales) are described and illustrated. One of them, Eutypella semicircularis, found twice on branches probably belonging to Alnus acuminata, is new to science. It differs from known species of Eutypella and Peroneutypa with strongly allantoid or semicircular ascospores, such as E. crustata and P. curvispora, in ...
... Alder (Alnus glutinosa) and more than 200 angiosperms that encompass 24 genera are collectively called actinorhizal plants. These plants form a symbiotic relationship with the nitrogen-fixing actinomycete Frankia strain HFPArI3. The plants provide the bacteria with carbon sources in exchange for fixed nitrogen, but this metabolite exchange in actinorhizal nodules has not been well defined. We isol ...
Alnus; DNA primers; Phytophthora; alleles; glucose-6-phosphate isomerase; hybridization; hybrids; isozymes; loci; malate dehydrogenase; mitochondrial DNA; phenotype; random amplified polymorphic DNA technique; root crown; Hungary
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... Phytophthora alni is a species hybrid that causes a destructive root and collar rot disease of alders throughout Europe. Its subspecies, P. alni subsp. alni (Paa), P. alni subsp. uniformis (Pau) and P. alni subsp. multiformis (Pam) can be distinguished on the basis of phenotypic and genotypic traits. In this study, we report evidence of an unusual genomic combination of two subspecies occurring in ...
... Exposures of Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediments at the margins of an open-cast lignite mine at Marathousa near Megalopolis, western Arcadia, Greece yielded the partial remains of a Palaeoloxodon antiquus skeleton which exhibited signs of being butchered. Sedimentation occurred between ca. 400 and 480 ka. Lithic artefacts were found in close spatial and stratigraphic association with the eleph ...
... Laminated sediments in the Taipei Basin which are tentatively assigned to the antepenultimate glacial period were studied to discern the paleoclimatic significance. Analyses of multi proxies including pollen, mineralogy, grain size, and loss on ignition (LOI) were carried out on three 50 cm thick intervals of a 23.7 m thick laminated section of the Hsinchuan Core, western Taipei. The couplets are ...
Alnus; Alpova; Rhizopogon; basidiomata; ectomycorrhizae; new species; polyphyly; North America
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... Alpova diplophloeus (Boletales, Paxillaceae) is the only currently recognized Alpova in North America with a brownish peridium, large gleba chambers and which forms ectomycorrhizas with Alnus. However, A. diplophloeus as currently circumscribed is a polyphyletic species, with at least three distinct genetic entities. Using a combination of molecular and morphological characters, we examined the ty ...
Andreas Koutsodendris; Jörg Pross; Ulrich C. Müller; Achim Brauer; William J. Fletcher; Norbert Kühl; Emiliya Kirilova; Florence T.M. Verhagen; Andreas Lücke; André F. Lotter
... To gain insights into the mechanisms of abrupt climate change within interglacials, we have examined the characteristics and spatial extent of a prominent, climatically induced vegetation setback during the Holsteinian interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 11c). Based on analyses of pollen and varves of lake sediments from Dethlingen (northern Germany), this climatic oscillation, here termed the “Old ...
Nadine Steckling-Muschack; Hanna Mertes; Isabella Mittermeier; Paul Schutzmeier; Jana Becker; Karl-Christian Bergmann; Stephan Böse-O′Reilly; Jeroen Buters; Athanasios Damialis; Joachim Heinrich; Michael Kabesch; Dennis Nowak; Sandra Walser-Reichenbach; Alisa Weinberger; Mihai Zamfir; Caroline Herr; Susanne Kutzora; Stefanie Heinze
... Pollen threshold values used in public warning systems are intended to inform people of the risk of developing allergy symptoms. However, there is no consensus about which pollen concentrations provoke allergy symptoms. The aim of this systematic review was the evaluation of studies investigating the relationship between pollen concentrations (alder, ash, birch, hazel, mugwort and ragweed) and the ...
... A 8400—7700 yr cal. BP section of the sediments of a small lake in southern Finland was studied by high-resolution pollen and cladoceran analyses to examine the response of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to the 8200 cal. yr BP cold event. Furthermore, a pollen-based T ₐₙₙ reconstruction and proportions of chydorid ephippia were used to determine changes in temperature and in the length of open ...
... More than 200 angiosperms, distributed in 25 genera, develop root nodule symbioses (actinorhizas) with soil bacteria of the actinomycetous genus Frankia. Although most soils studied contain infective Frankia, cultured strains are available only after isolation from root nodules. Frankia infects roots via root hairs in some hosts or via intercellular penetration in others. The nodule originates in ...
... The existence of a fire event at the Iron Age hillfort of Nabás, which is located on the southern bank of the Ría de Vigo (Galicia, NW of the Iberian Peninsula), favoured an extraordinary preservation of carbonised plant remains and offered an unusual opportunity to focus our research on the study of the final episode of a house life-cycle. The archaeobotanical approach focused on perishable mater ...
... In this study, airborne pollen grains of Yalova province were investigated using VPSS 2000 from January to December 2004. During studying period, a total of 22409 pollen grains/m3 which belonged to 46 taxa and 74 unidentified pollen grains were recorded. From the identified taxa, 26 belong to arboreal and 20 to non-arboreal plants. Total pollen grains consist of 80.50% arboreal, 19.17% non-arborea ...
... Toledo is one of the main tourist spots of Spain, attracting around two million visitors per year. Its geographical situation in the vast and scarcely monitored Region of Castilla La Mancha and the high number of tourists (especially in the spring) has resulted in the Spanish Aerobiology Network (REA) making this city a major study objective. Air monitoring studies carried out using REA sampling p ...
... The article deals with the main pollen spectrum in relation to patients’ sensitivity determined in the ambient air of Vinnitsa city located in central Ukraine. The study performed by gravimetric sampling in the years 1999–2000 and by volumetric sampling in the years 2009–2014 showed that Urtica, Betula, Pinus, Alnus, Fraxinus, Ambrosia, Artemisia, Juglans, Carpinus, Populus, Quercus, Acer, Salix, ...
... Terrestrial sources of nitrogen (N), particularly N-fixing alder, may be important for sustaining production in headwater streams that typically lack substantial subsidies of marine-derived nutrients from spawning salmon yet support upstream-dispersing juvenile salmonids. However, other physiographic characteristics, such as watershed slope and topographic wetness, also control transport of nutrie ...
... The focus of our study was airborne alder pollen because it is one of the main causes of inhalant allergies in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. The main research setback was pollen concentrations during snowfall. Analyses from a 21-year database showed that the hourly patterns of occurrence of airborne Alnus pollen during snowfall differ. Snowfall can cause a decrease in pollen concentra ...
air; data collection; heat sums; humidity; models; pollen; prediction; ripening; spore traps; spring; wind speed; Finland
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... We developed a temperature sum model to predict the daily pollen release of alder, based on pollen data collected with pollen traps at seven locations in Finland over the years 2000–2014. We estimated the model parameters by minimizing the sum of squared errors (SSE) of the model, with weights that put more weight on binary recognition of daily presence or absence of pollen. The model results sugg ...
Alnus; branches; females; inflorescences; males; new species; plant taxonomy; scientific illustration; shrubs; taxon descriptions; China
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... Alnus betulifolia G.Y. Li, Z.H. Chen & D.D. Ma (Betulaceae), a new species of Betulaceae from Zhejiang, eastern China, is described and illustrated. It is similar to the Japanese endemic A. firma, but differs from it by being a shrub, often 2–3 m tall, and by having male inflorescences single and compact, and female inflorescences usually single or double in lateral branches above male inflorescen ...
... Shrub encroachment is one of the main consequences of abandonment of montane grassland. Higher surface roughness of shrubs leads to stronger aerodynamic coupling. This should increase evapotranspiration (ET), but lower surface temperatures (due to higher ET and reduced aerodynamic resistance) could counter this effect. We explored this question by employing weighable lysimeters in adjacent grass- ...
... Symbiotic dinitrogen (N2)-fixing trees have been expanding to boreal peatlands, yet its influence on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) biodegradation is unclear. Here, we measured DOC, ammonium‑nitrogen (NH4+-N), nitrate‑nitrogen (NO3−-N), dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), and dissolved total nitrogen (DTN) concentrations, specific ultraviolet absorbance at 254 nm (SUVA254), and humification index ...
... • Premise of the study: The fossil record of alder (Alnus) is well known in the Cenozoic deposits throughout the northern hemisphere, based on numerous reports of the distinctive pollen, cone-like infructescences, staminate inflorescences, and leaves. However, our understanding of the systematic position of these fossils relative to the modern phylogeny of the genus has been limited because most f ...
... Alnus × spaethii is a hybrid alder with the parent species A. japonica and A. subcordata. It is known for both its tolerance for urban climate conditions and enhanced air pollution concentrations and hence often figures on recommended tree guidance lists in towns. At the MeteoSwiss pollen station of Buchs (Switzerland), unusual early peaks of alder pollen already in December or January have been o ...
... The presence of pollen from Yungas tree species in fossil sequences located above the tree-line has led to alternative interpretations of past climate changes in tropical and subtropical Andes. We studied atmospheric and surface pollen deposition rates of Yungas trees along an altitudinal gradient (1700–3800 m a.s.l.) to understand the role of local wind patterns in modern pollen transport to moun ...
... A high‐resolution diatom sequence was developed from continuously laminated lake sediments in southwestern Québec, which spanned the Holocene (~11,000 yr). General and species‐specific changes in the diatom record were synchronous with patterns of vegetation succession inferred from regional palynological studies, demonstrating significant influences of terrestrial ecosystems on lake water chemist ...
... Mineral element concentrations were measured in the component parts of different species of plants from a floodplain community along a coastal plain stream in South Carolina, USA. Frequency distributions of concentrations of mineral elements were positively skewed, although distributions of P, K, Ca and B concentrations tended to be less skewed than those of some trace elements (Na, Al, Cs—137). S ...
... To reach the goal set by the United States Department of Energy to replace 30% of 2004 gasoline usage with biofuels by 2030, the U.S. will need to consider diverse biomass feedstock sources, such as the plant genus Alnus. This genus contains nitrogen-fixing species that grow in a wide variety of challenging conditions. This study focused on 13 species of Alnus and was designed to determine surviva ...
Alnus; Populus; information networks; pollen; pollen season; research; robots; Germany
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... There is high demand for online, real-time and high-quality pollen data. To the moment pollen monitoring has been done manually by highly specialized experts. Here we evaluate the electronic Pollen Information Network (ePIN) comprising 8 automatic BAA500 pollen monitors in Bavaria, Germany. Automatic BAA500 and manual Hirst-type pollen traps were run simultaneously at the same locations for one po ...
... The course of Alnus spp. pollen seasons was compared in two cities, Lublin and Warsaw, located at a small distance from each other but included in different climatic regions of Poland. The studies were conducted using the volumetric method. It was shown that Alnus pollen seasons started in Warsaw earlier and were much shorter than in Lublin. The span between the start dates of pollen seasons was s ...
... The objective of this investigation was to identify the overall pollen types and, more particularly, the allergenic pollen content in the investigated area and then to explore their seasonal variations. The measurement point was located in the Timişoara city, Romania. A Lanzoni volumetric trap was used for sample collection. Duration of the pollen season of allergenic plants and respective variati ...
... Airborne allergenic pollen affects a significant part of the population and the information on pollen load is a valuable tool for public health prevention. The messages should be provided in a form easily understandable for the population. The study provides new insight for the categorisation of pollen load by defining thresholds solely from aerobiological data. Using the long-term airborne pollen ...
... Alder (Alnus Mill.), as an anemophilous species, produces large quantities of easily dispersed pollen. Annual pollen sums recorded in south-eastern Poland (by the volumetric method - Lanzoni trap) and in the area of the village of Guciów in the Central Roztocze region (pollen deposition in Tauber traps) were compared. The height at which the respective trap sites were located as well as local and ...
Alnus; Betula; Fagus; North Atlantic Oscillation; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; anthropogenic activities; botanical composition; climate; humans; ice; lakes; oxygen isotopes; palaeogeography; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; pollen; potassium; runoff; sediments; temperature; vegetation; watersheds; Alps region; Austria; Greenland
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... This study reports a precisely dated pollen record with a 20-year resolution from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee in the north-eastern European Alps (47°49′N, 13°24′E, 481 m above sea level). The analysed part of core spans the interval between 1500 BCE and 500 CE and allows changes in vegetation composition in relation to climatic changes and human activities in the catchment to be inferred. ...
Alnus; Amaranthaceae; agroforestry; anthropogenic activities; biogeography; climate change; climatic factors; corn; cultivars; fuels; lakes; landscapes; paleoecology; pollen; sediments; social change; society; tropical montane cloud forests; Andes region; Peru
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... The rise of complex Andean cultures is tied to increasingly sophisticated use of natural resources and infrastructural development. Considerable debate surrounds the extent to which these societies were forced to respond to changing climates or whether their modifications to the landscape minimized climate impacts. Here, we present a region-wide perspective of paleoecological changes around Cuzco, ...
... The diversity of plant vegetation of the study area is represented by 17 associations, 9 alliances, 7 orders, and 6 classes. Geobotanic maps of the region are compiled for the first time using modern technology. The medium-scale mapping of natural vegetation has also been carried out. It is shown that the spatial structure of plant vegetation in the flat areas is mostly ordered structures-complexe ...
... Leaves of Alnus nitida are used by local communities for the management of diabetes and in inflammatory disorders.Powder of shade dried leaves of A. nitida was extracted with methanol (ANME) and fractionated in escalating polarity i.e n-hexane (ANHE), chloroform (ANCE), ethyl acetate (ANEE) and soluble residual aqueous fraction (ANAE). The extract/fractions were evaluated for antidiabetic in vitro ...
Alnus japonica; medicinal plants; plant extracts; heptane; low density lipoprotein; oxidation; antioxidant activity; chemical structure; spectral analysis; humans; South Korea