Weekly Pollen Count Data for Christchurch, New Zealand
The datafile contains the composition and abundance of airborne pollen in Christchurch, New Zealand. The data was collected for the period between November 1988 to February 1989 as part of a nationwide survey of airborne pollen. 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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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 1988-11-17
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-06-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Victoria University of Wellington - Newnham, Rewi (Professor)
Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, 6012, Wellington, New Zealand
Kelburn
Wellington
6012
New Zealand
Resource provider
Manukau Institute of Technology - Conford, Clive ()
53 Otara Road, Ōtara, Auckland, 2023, New Zealand
Ōtara
Auckland
2023
New Zealand
Resource provider
Massey University - Fountain, David ()
Tennent Drive, Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, 4474, New Zealand
Palmerston North
Manawatū-Whanganui
4474
New Zealand
Resource provider
Massey University - Forde, Margo ()
Tennent Drive, Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, 4474, New Zealand
Palmerston North
Manawatū-Whanganui
4474
New Zealand
Resource provider
University of Queensland - Davies, Janet ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
Contributor
University of Queensland - Specht, Alison (Associate Professor)
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Victoria University of Wellington - Newnham, Rewi (Professor)
Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, 6012, Wellington, New Zealand
Kelburn Parade
Kelburn
Wellington
6012
New Zealand
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- In the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1988-11-17 1989-02-28
- Title
- Davies J. M., Beggs P. J., Medek, D. E., Newnham R. M., Erbas B., Thibaudon M., Katelaris C. H., Haberle S. G., Newbigin E. J. and Huete, A. R. (2015). Trans-disciplinary research in synthesis of grass pollen aerobiology and its importance for respiratory health in Australasia. Science of The Total Environment, 534: 85-96
- Title
- Haberle S. G., Bowman D. M. J. S., Nernham R. M., Johnston F. H., Beggs P. J., Buters J., Campbell B., Erbas B., Godwin I., Green B. J., Huete A., Jaggard A. K., Medek D., Murray F., Newbigin, E., Thibaudon M., Vicendese D., Williamson G.J. and Davies J.M. (2014). The macroecology of airborne pollen in Australian and New Zealand urban areas. PLOS ONE, 9 (5): e97925
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Plant Name Index
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- weekly pollen counts
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- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- License
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- Other restrictions
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- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
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- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Christchurch_weekly_pollen_counts_Nov1988-Feb1989
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Airborne pollen counts were derived from deployment of the Intermittent Cycling Rotorod sampler located on a rooftops at 20 m above the ground. In New Zealand the Intermittent Cycling Rotorod sampler is an impaction collector with a retracting collector rod sampling head. Particles are collected on the leading, greased, edge of two 1.59 x 32 mm clear polystyrene collector rods spun intermittently by an electric motor at 2400 rev./min. The samplers were set-up to operate for 6 minutes every hour. Sampling rods were replaced every 24 hours, stained with Calberla's solution, and examined under a transmitted light microscope. Analysis of each 24-hr period is conducted by counting four transects at 400 magnification. The data is summed to provide an average weekly pollen count in grains per cubic meter.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Newnham R., Fountain D., Cornford C., Forde M. (1995). A national survey of airborne pollen and grass flowering in New Zealand, with implications for respiratory disorder. Aerobiologia, 11: 239-252
- Website
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https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447204
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/8c03e4bd-fcc0-41d0-858f-6adf63699c81
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/8c03e4bd-fcc0-41d0-858f-6adf63699c81
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-05-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:59:09.339714+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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