Pollen in the Air: Production, Release, Dispersal, Health Impacts and Detection
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 November 2023) | Viewed by 341
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pollen; allergy; health impacts of bioaerosols; plant reproductive ecology; phenology; pollination biology; airborne bioaerosol detection and monitoring
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pollen; allergy; health impacts of bioaerosols; allergenic and pro-inflammatory components of pollen (proteins and lipids); new techniques in airborne bioaerosol detection and monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Atmosphere is dedicated to the current knowledge of airborne pollen and pollen-derived particles. As important bioaerosols, they are studied within the multidisciplinary field of aerobiology, bearing on, e.g., ecology, phenology, plant pathology, forensics and not least medicine. Pollen can have an adverse impact on health when deposited in the airways or on the skin, primarily causing allergy, but there may also be other effects. We focus on three subject areas: 1) the properties of pollen grains that affect other organisms, such as their content of allergenic, proinflammatory and other immunomodulatory compounds as well as their microbiome; 2) how the present pervasive environmental changes of climate, biodiversity and land use affect the composition of the pollen part of the human exposome; 3) the state of the art of detecting and forecasting pollen concentrations, combining botany, meteorology, models of emission, phenology and atmospheric transport, as well as developing new sampling techniques using machine-learning and DNA-barcoding. Contributions to any of these areas are most welcome!
Dr. Åslög Dahl
Dr. Nestor González Roldán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aerobiology
- pollen allergy
- sensitization
- allergens
- pro-inflammatory lipids
- allergenicity
- pollen microbiome
- phenology of allergenic plants
- biodiversity
- climate change
- range shifts
- atmospheric transport
- atmospheric sampling techniques
- pollen forecasting
- pollen modelling
- automated pollen identification
- metabarcoding
