Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition

Brennan, Georgina L.; Potter, Caitlin; de Vere, Natasha; Griffith, Gareth W.; Skjøth, Carsten A.; Osborne, Nicholas J.; Wheeler, Benedict W.; McInnes, Rachel N.; Clewlow, Yolanda; Barber, Adam; Hanlon, Helen M.; Hegarty, Matthew; Jones, Laura; Kurganskiy, Alexander; Rowney, Francis M.; Armitage, Charlotte; Adams-Groom, Beverley; Ford, Col R.; Petch, Geoff M.; Elliot, Angela; Frisk, Carl A.; Neilson, Roy; Potter, Stephen; Rafiq, Abdullah M.; Roy, David B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331; Selby, Katherine; Steinberg, Natascha; Creer, Simon. 2019 Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3 (5). 750-754. 10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7

Abstract/Summary

Grass pollen is the world’s most harmful outdoor aeroallergen. However, it is unknown how airborne pollen assemblages change across time and space. Human sensitivity varies between different species of grass that flower at different times, but it is not known whether temporal turnover in species composition match terrestrial flowering or whether species richness steadily accumulates over the grass pollen season. Here, using targeted, high-throughput sequencing, we demonstrate that all grass genera displayed discrete, temporally restricted peaks of incidence, which varied with latitude and longitude throughout Great Britain, revealing that the taxonomic composition of grass pollen exposure changes substantially across the grass pollen season.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2397-334X
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Additional Keywords:	biodiversity, community ecology, ecology, molecular ecology
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
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Date made live:	30 Jul 2019 12:58 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524587

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2397-334X

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Publisher link (see Related URLs) provides a read-only full-text copy of the published paper.

Additional Keywords:

biodiversity, community ecology, ecology, molecular ecology