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Unusual early peaks of airborne ragweed (Ambrosia L.) pollen in the Pannonian Biogeographical Region

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Early peaks of airborne ragweed (Ambrosia L.) pollen concentrations were observed at several monitoring stations in Hungary in June 2017 and 2018, one month before the usual start of the pollen season at the end of July. Backward trajectories were calculated to simulate potential sources of pollen collected at different locations in the Pannonian Biogeographical Region. In a collaboration between aerobiological and phenological networks, a nationwide campaign was conducted to collect field data of ragweed blooming. During field surveys, ragweed plants having extremely early blooming were found most abundantly in a rural site near Vaja (North-East Hungary) and other locations in Hungary. Field observations matched with source areas identified by trajectory analyses; i.e., early-flowering ragweed plants were found at some of these locations. Although similar peaks of airborne pollen concentrations were not detected in other years (e.g., 2016, 2019–2021), alarming results suggest the possibility of expanding seasons of ragweed allergy.

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Acknowledgements

The Hungarian part of this work was financially supported by the Széchenyi 2020 program through EFOP-1.8.0-VEKOP-17-2017-00001 project; City Administration for Environmental Protection, City of Novi Sad, for the pollen monitoring in Novi Sad; and Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection AP Vojvodina for the pollen monitoring in Sombor, Vrbas, Kikinda, Zrenjanin, and Sremska Mitrovica. The Slovak part of this study was supported by Grant Agency VEGA (Bratislava), Grant No. 1/0180/22.

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  1. National Public Health Center, Hungarian Aerobiological Network, Budapest, Hungary

    D. Magyar, O. Udvardy, A. Páldy, T. Szigeti & Á. Leelőssy

  2. National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-Environment, Budapest, Hungary

    R. Novák

  3. Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

    B. Stjepanović, I. Hrga & A. Večenaj

  4. Institute of Public Health Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

    A. Vucić & D. Peroš Pucar

  5. BioSense Institute - Research Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems, Novi Sad, Serbia

    B. Šikoparija & P. Radišić

  6. Public Health Institute, Subotica, Serbia

    T. Škorić

  7. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Botany, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

    J. Ščevková

  8. Department of Plant and Soil Protection, Government Office of Pest County, Budapest, Hungary

    E. Simon-Csete

  9. Department of Plant Health, Government Office of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Nyíregyháza, Hungary

    M. Nagy

  10. Department of Meteorology, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Á. Leelőssy

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Magyar, D., Novák, R., Udvardy, O. et al. Unusual early peaks of airborne ragweed (Ambrosia L.) pollen in the Pannonian Biogeographical Region. Int J Biometeorol 66, 2195–2203 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02348-5

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