A5028292572- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Plant and animal studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Plant Reproductive Biology
Fondazione Edmund Mach
2015-2024
University of Ferrara
2007-2020
Ospedale Santa Chiara
1997-2001
Significance Coexposure to airborne pollen enhances susceptibility respiratory viral infections, regardless of the allergy status. We hypothesized this could be also true for SARS-CoV-2 infections. To investigate this, we tested relationships between infection rates and concentrations, along with humidity, temperature, population density, lockdown effects. Our unique dataset derives from 130 sites in 31 countries across five continents. found that pollen, sometimes synergy humidity...
Abstract The advent of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring over the past few years has brought about a paradigm change. provision real-time information at high temporal resolution opens door to wide range improvements in terms products services made available widening end-users stakeholders. As technology methods mature, it is essential properly quantify impact on different end-user domains better understand real long-term benefits society. In this paper, we focus main where such...
Abstract The impact of climate change on ecosystems can be assessed through pollen dispersion data, which acts as a proxy for the plant flowering stage. aim this study is to verify if changes occurred in season and concentration airborne Trentino (Northern Italy), evaluate temperature (T), precipitation (P), and/or land use influenced such period 1989–2018. Airborne pollen, sampled by Hirst-type trap, was analyzed light microscopy, concentrations were obtained. Twenty-four taxa, covering 95%...
Abstract Monitoring biodiversity is of increasing importance in natural ecosystems. Metabarcoding can be used as a powerful molecular tool to complement traditional monitoring, total environmental DNA analyzed from complex samples containing different origin. The aim this research was demonstrate the potential pollen metabarcoding using chloroplast trn L partial gene sequencing characterize plant biodiversity. Collecting airborne biological particles with gravimetric Tauber traps four Natura...
Pollen detection through automatic instruments has significantly improved over the recent years. Hirst-type traps start to be complemented with throughout Europe. Instead of traditional identification airborne pollen particles using light microscopy, data is collected and subsequently analysed by an AI-classifier. As airflow-cytometer, SwisensPoleno capture a fingerprint each particle in-flight. Holography images, as well fluorescence spectral data, for Jupiter, are classify measured grains...
Information about airborne pollen concentration is of concern for health authorities across Europe. The reliability data estimates depends on the accuracy and precision counts. In Italy, counts are carried out slides microscopic evaluation regulated by national Standard UNI 11108:2004. Our results showed that performed according to Italian standard may result in a significant bias number grains counted this will have an impact final concentration. For same sample size, confidence intervals...
Abstract Current biodiversity loss is a major concern and thus assessment of modern ecosystems compelling needs to be contextualized on longer timescale. High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) progressively becoming source data time series. In this multi proxy study, we tested, for the first time, potential HTS estimate plant archived in surface layers temperate alpine glacier, amplifying trnL barcode vascular plants from eDNA firn samples. A 573 cm long core was drilled by Adamello glacier cut...
Although coppice forests represent a significant part of the European forest area, especially across southern Countries, they received little attention within Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) processes and scenarios, whose guidelines have been mainly designed to high national scale. In order obtain “tailored” information on degree sustainability coppices scale stand, we evaluated (i) whether main management options result in different responses SFM indicators, (ii) which considered...
Abstract Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is caused by a flavivirus that infects animals including humans. In Europe, the TBE virus circulates enzootically in natural foci among ticks and rodent hosts. The abundance of depends on hosts, which turn availability food resources, such as tree seeds. Trees can exhibit large inter-annual fluctuations seed production (masting), influences rodents following year, nymphal two years later. Thus, biology this system predicts 2-year time lag between...
The cytopathology of ductal carcinoma in situ the breast. A detailed analysis fine needle aspiration cytology 58 cases compared with 101 invasive carcinomas existence cytological findings that discriminate (DCIS) breast from (IDC) has not been unanimously accepted and role (FNAC) remains controversial. We report a large series FNAC histologically proven DCIS those having different extent component. association high cohesiveness atypical cells absence tubular aggregates showed good...
ABSTRACT Fatigue failures of in‐service components are frequently due to multiaxial loadings; therefore, damage quantification in such conditions is important many industrial applications. In this work a criterion suitable for high‐cycle fatigue assessment formalized. It makes use hydrostatic stress component and deviatoric estimate damage. A new formulation the equivalent amplitude formalized compared with definitions proposed by Deperrois Li De Freitas. Damage evaluation procedure...