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Abundance of airborne pollen for nine grass species, measured by qPCR, UK, 2016-2017

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The dataset contains abundance data of airborne pollen (including Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal-grass), Arrhenatherum elatius (false oat-grass), Cynosurus cristatus (crested dog's-tail), Dactylis glomerata (cock's-foot), Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass), Phleum pratense (Timothy), Poa pratensis (smooth meadow-grass), grass species within the genera Alopecurus/Agrostis, and one probe that was found to be degenerate and unable to discriminate grass species. Here we used qPCR to track the seasonal progression of airborne grass pollen, in time and space. To do this we collected aerial samples from thirteen sites across the UK during the pollen seasons (May to September) of 2016 and 2017. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/28208be4-0163-45e6-912c-2db205126925

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
28208be4-0163-45e6-912c-2db205126925
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2020-12-15
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Brennan, G., Creer, S., Griffith, G. (2020). Abundance of airborne pollen for nine grass species, measured by qPCR, UK, 2016-2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/28208be4-0163-45e6-912c-2db205126925
Responsible party
Bangor University (author, pointOfContact); Aberystwyth University (author); (publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng