TY - JOUR
T1 - Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition
AU - Brennan, Georgina L.
AU - Potter, Caitlin
AU - De Vere, Natasha
AU - Griffith, Gareth
AU - Skjøth, Carsten A.
AU - Osborne, Nicholas J.
AU - Wheeler, Benedict W.
AU - McInnes, Rachel N.
AU - Clewlow, Yolanda
AU - Barber, Adam
AU - Hanlon, Helen M.
AU - Hegarty, Matthew
AU - Jones, Laura
AU - Kurganskiy, Alexander
AU - Rowney, Francis M.
AU - Armitage, Charlotte
AU - Adams-Groom, Beverley
AU - Ford, Col R.
AU - Petch, Geoff M.
AU - Consortium, PollerGEN
AU - Creer, Simon
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank J. Kenny, P. Koldkjær, R. Gregory and A. Lucaci for sequencing support; J. Winn for ArcGIS assistance with Fig. 1; W. Grail and the technical support staff at Bangor University; the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) for access to the list of plant collections in the National Gardens in the United Kingdom and Ireland; the Met Office network for providing additional observational grass pollen count data; the Woodland Trust and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for supplying the UK Phenology Network data and the citizen scientists who have contributed to the latter scheme. We acknowledge the computational services and support of the Supercomputing Wales project, which is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) via Welsh Government. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (https://nerc.ukri.org/), awarded to S.C. (NE/N003756/1), C.A.S. (NE/N002431/1), N.J.O. (NE/N002105/1), and G.W.G., N.d.V. and M.H. (NE/N001710/1). IBERS Aberystwyth receives strategic funding from the BBSRC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Allergens
KW - Flowers
KW - Humans
KW - Poaceae
KW - Pollen
KW - Seasons
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0849-7#Sec8
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064069995&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
DO - 10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 30962560
SN - 2397-334X
VL - 3
SP - 750
EP - 754
JO - Nature Ecology and Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology and Evolution
IS - 5
ER -
