The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in the suburb of Campbelltown (University of Western Sydney), Sydney, NSW, Australia. The data was collected for the period between August 1992 to December 1995 as a study presented by Bass and Morgan (1997). 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”).
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This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
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Airborne pollen counts were derived from deployment of a seven-day Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore trap located on a rooftops at 1 m above the ground. The Burkard 7 Day Volumetric Spore Trap sampler (Burkard Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK) uses a range of adhesive surface compound (50% saturated Dow Corning® high vacuum grease in solvent) on MelinexTM tape (Burkard Manufacturing Co. Ltd.). The seven-day tapes were then cut into 24-hr segments and mounted on glass slides with a stain of 2% Saffranin O in glycerol jelly. Analysis of each 24-hr period is conducted by counting three transects at 400 magnification. The data is summed to provide an average weekly pollen count in grains per cubic meter.
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