Allergenic pollen production across a large city for common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia).

ABSTRACT: Predictions of airborne allergenic pollen concentrations at fine spatial scales require information on source plant location and pollen production. Such data are lacking at the urban scale, largely because manually mapping allergenic pollen producing plants across large areas is infeasible. However, modest-sized field surveys paired with allometric equations, remote sensing, and habitat distribution models can predict where these plants occur and how much pollen they produce. In this study, common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) was mapped in a field survey in Detroit, MI, USA. The relationship between ragweed presence and habitat-related variables derived from aerial imagery, LiDAR, and municipal data were used to create a habitat distribution model, which was then used to predic

SUBMITTER: Katz DSW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7442281 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature