TERN Weekly Pollen Count - Rocklea, Brisbane, Queensland 1994-1999

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The datafile, published by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in the suburb of Rocklea, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The data was collected for the period between June 1994 to May 1999 as part of a research program that assessed pollen bioaerosols and relationships with meteorological parameters (see Green BJ, Dettmann M, Rutherford S, Simpson RW [2002]. Airborne pollen of Brisbane, Australia: a five-year pollen record, 1994-1999. Grana 41(4):242-250.). This forms part of a study of the Australian Aerobiology working group (Haberle, Bowman, Newnham, Johnston, Beggs, Buters, Campbell, Erbas, Godwin, Green, Heute, Jaggard, Medek, Murray, Newbiggin, Thibaudon, Vicendese, Williamson, Davies “The macroecology of airborne pollen in Australian and New Zealand urban areas” ).

Airborne pollen counts were derived from deployment of a seven-day Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore trap and the instrument’s orifice elevated 2m above ground level. Several periods of motorized trap breakdown were experienced, but these were usually brief and accounted for a total of 117 days during the entire sampling period. The trap was calibrated to sample air at ten litres per minute and pollen was deposited onto tapes coated with a thin film of Dow Corning pressure-sensitive silicone adhesive (280A). The seven-day tapes were cut into daily lengths and mounted in Carberla’s solution on glass microscope slides. The entire surface area of each tape was scanned at magnifications of x250 using north +- south traverses and the pollen counts then converted to correspond to grains per m3 air as a daily mean value. The data is summed to provide an average weekly pollen count. Pollen identification was aided by reference to photomicrographs provided by Moss (1965), Grant Smith (1990), and Hjelmroos et al. (1999).

For more information please visit the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS) Data Portal.

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  • AURIN has spatially enabled the original data, acquired via the ACEAS Data Portal with permission from TERN.

  • This dataset allows you to filter the data by the date of collection.

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Source https://adp.aurin.org.au/geoserver/wfs
Last Updated 28 June 2023, 6:15 AM (UTC+00:00)
Created 28 June 2023, 6:15 AM (UTC+00:00)
ADP ID datasource-TERN-UoM_AURIN_DB:tern_rocklea_pollen_count_weekly_by_pollen_type_1994_99
Access Level Open Access
Aggregation Level NA
Attribute List Acacia (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Asteraceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Casuarina (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Chenopodiaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Cupressaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Cyperaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Easting Coordinate (WGS 84), First Date of the Week, Geometry, Location Name, Myrtaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Northing Coordinate (WGS 84), Number of Data Collection Days in the Week, Other (known and unknown) (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Pinus (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Plantago (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Poaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Total pollen (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Unique Identifier, Urticaceae (Weekly sum: grains/m3), Week Number
Attribution Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, (2018): TERN Weekly Pollen Count - Rocklea, Brisbane, Queensland 1994-1999; accessed from AURIN on [date of access].
Coordinate Ref. System EPSG:4283 (GDA_1994)
Copyright Notice © Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network 2018
Geometry Field wkb_geometry
Key ogc_fid
Type dataset
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