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A follow-up study examining airborne Ambrosia pollen in the Milan area in 2014 in relation to the accidental introduction of the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge support from EU COST Action FA1203 “Sustainable management of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in Europe (SMARTER)” (http://ragweed.eu). This work was partly financed by ECOST-STSM-FA1203-250415-058150 to MS. Many thanks to Olivier Broennimann (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) for helping to produce Fig. 1.

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  1. Department of Medical Prevention, Public Health, Local Health Authority of Milan 1, Parabiago, MI, Italy

    M. Bonini, G. Cislaghi, P. Colombo & C. Testoni

  2. Laboratory for Palynology, Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    B. Šikoparija & M. Prentović

  3. BioSens Institute, Novi Sad, Serbia

    B. Šikoparija

  4. Laboratory of Aeropalynology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

    Ł. Grewling & M. Smith

  5. Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    S. T. E. Lommen & H. Müller-Schärer

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Bonini, M., Šikoparija, B., Prentović, M. et al. A follow-up study examining airborne Ambrosia pollen in the Milan area in 2014 in relation to the accidental introduction of the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa . Aerobiologia 32, 371–374 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10453-015-9406-2

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