Environ Pollut. 2011 Feb;159(2):602-8. Epub 2010 Oct 27.

The relationships between air pollutants, meteorological parameters and concentration of airborne fungal spores.

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Department of Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Szczecin, Wąska 13 Street, 71-415 Szczecin, Poland. agofr@univ.szczecin.pl

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Fungal spores are an important component of bioaerosol and also considered to act as indicator of the level of atmospheric bio-pollution. Therefore, better understanding of these phenomena demands a detailed survey of airborne particles. The objective of this study was to examine the dependence of two the most important allergenic taxa of airborne fungi--Alternaria and Cladosporium--on meteorological parameters and air pollutant concentrations during three consecutive years (2006-2008). This study is also an attempt to create artificial neural network (ANN) forecasting models useful in the prediction of aeroallergen abundance. There were statistically significant relationships between spore concentration and environmental parameters as well as pollutants, confirmed by the Spearman's correlation rank analysis and high performance of the ANN models obtained. The concentrations of Cladosporium and Alternaria spores can be predicted with quite good accuracy from meteorological conditions and air pollution recorded three days earlier.

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