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T1 Comparative study between two aerobiological stations situated in the city of Malaga (southern Spain)
A1 Trigo-Pérez, María del Mar
A1 Ruiz-Mata, Rocío
A1 Recio-Criado, María Marta
A1 Picornell Rodríguez, Antonio
A1 García-Sánchez, José
A1 Cabezudo-Artero, Baltasar
AB An aerobiological sampler covers the pollen information of a determined area, whose extension mainly dependson the topography of the territory but, in a city, buildings are the elements that obstruct and re-distributewinds as well as the particles suspended in the air. This is the reason for what several pollen traps are oftenneeded for covering the information in a big city.Malaga is one of the biggest cities in Spain with a population of more than 600,000 inhabitants. In 1991 aHirst-type pollen trap was installed in the northwest part of the city (Malaga-Teatinos station), which havebeen kept operational until nowadays. Additionally, in 2017, a second device (Malaga-Centre station) was installedin the very city centre, 4 km apart from the first. The aim of this work is to search whether or not thereare significant differences between the results obtained in the two locations. For that, the samples obtainedwere mounted and counted following the methodology proposed by the Spanish Aerobiology Network (REA)and the pollen concentrations expressed as number of pollen grains/m3 of air (daily mean).Results indicate that pollen spectra are quite similar in both sampling stations. However, we found importantdifferences in the annual amount of pollen recorded, regarding some of the more abundant pollen types in thecity, Amaranthaceae, Olea europaea, Plantago and Quercus being much more abundant in Malaga-Teatinos,with annual pollen indexes that sometimes triple the obtained in Malaga-Centre. On the contrary, Pinus andParietaria reach higher values in Malaga-Centre, especially the last one, with annual pollen index almost fourtimes highest than the obtained in Malaga-Teatinos. Phenology was quite similar in the case of almost all thepollen types with scarce differences in the case of Olea and Parietaria.
YR 2019
FD 2019-07-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/18139
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/18139
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026