Pollen of beech in the air of selected cities of Poland in 2014
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The course of beech pollen season in Bialystok, Bydgoszcz, Drawsko Pomorskie, Cracow, Lublin, Olsztyn, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Sosnowiec, Szczecin, Warsaw, Wroclaw and in Zielona Gora in the year 2014 was presented. Measurements were performed by the volumetric method (Lanzoni 2000 or Burkard pollen sampler). Pollen season was defined as the period in which 95% of the annual total catch occurred. The pollen season of beech started first in Wroclaw on the 13th of April and in the other cities it started during the next 5 days. The highest airborne concentration of 72 beech pollen grains/m3 was noted in Zielona Góra on the 28th of April and in Wroclaw (65 pollen grains/m3) on the 28th of April.
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