Warm and dry weather accelerates and elongates Cladosporium spore seasons in Poland

Abstrakt

Temperature is the environmental factor that systematically changes for decades and, as in plants and animals, can significantly affect the growth and development of fungi, including the abundance of their sporulation. During the time of study (2010--2012), a rapid increase in air temperature was observed in Poland, which coincided with the substantial decrease in rainfall. The increase in annual mean temperatures at three monitoring sites of this study was 0.9 \textdegreeC in Lublin and Rzeszow (east Poland) and 2.0 \textdegreeC in Poznan (west Poland). Such warming of air masses was comparable to the average global air temperature rise in the period of 1880--2012 accounting for 0.85 \textdegreeC, as reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Moreover, there was a substantial decrease in rainfall, ranging from 32.7 \% (Poznan) to 43.0 \% (Rzeszow). We have demonstrated that under such conditions the mean and median values of total Cladosporium spore counts significantly increased and the spore seasons were greatly accelerated. Moreover, earlier start and later end of the season caused its extension, lasting from over 20 days in Rzeszow to around 60 days in Lublin and Poznan, when the cumulative amount of 5--95 \% of spores was considered. The time of reaching the cumulative amount of 50 \% of spores was up to 25 days earlier (difference in Poznan between 2010 and 2012). There was also a striking acceleration of the date of the maximal Cladosporium spore concentration per cubic metre of air (26 days for Lublin, 43 for Poznan and 56 for Rzeszow).

Autorzy

Idalia Kasprzyk
Idalia Kasprzyk
Bogusław Michał Kaszewski
Bogusław Michał Kaszewski
Małgorzata Nowak
Małgorzata Nowak
Joanna Kaczmarek
Joanna Kaczmarek
Agata Szymańska
Agata Szymańska
Weronika Haratym
Weronika Haratym
Małgorzata Jędryczka
Małgorzata Jędryczka
artykuł
AEROBIOLOGIA
Angielski
2016
32
1
109-126
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