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Weekly Pollen Count Data for the Suburb of Rocklea, Brisbane, QLD

The datafile 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 (Green et al., 2002). 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)
1994-06-06
Date (Publication)
2014-06-30
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.4227/05/5344EF2108839
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Green, Brett ()
1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, 26505, West Virginia, United States of America
Morgantown
West Virginia
26505
United States of America

Resource provider

Queensland Museum - Dettmann, Mary ()
Corner of Grey Street and Melbourne Street, Brisbane, 4101, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4101
Australia

Resource provider

Griffith University - Rutherford, Shannon ()
Parklands Drive, Southport, 4215, Queensland, Australia
Southport
Queensland
4215
Australia

Resource provider

University of the Sunshine Coast - Simpson, Rod ()
90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs, 4556, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Sippy Downs
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
4556
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

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Green, Brett ()
1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, 26505, West Virginia, United States of America
1095 Willowdale Road
Morgantown
West Virginia
26505
United States of America
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The suburb of Rocklea, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1994-06-06 1999-05-17
Title
Green B., Dettmann M., Rutherford S. and Simpson R. (2002). Airborne pollen of Brisbane, Australia: A five-year record, 1994 - 1999. Grana, 41(4): 242-250
Website
Green B., Dettmann M., Rutherford S. and Simpson R. (2002). Airborne pollen of Brisbane, Australia: A five-year record, 1994 - 1999. Grana, 41(4): 242-250

Related documentation

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
Website
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

Related documentation

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
Website
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

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • POLLEN
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental assessment and monitoring
  • Terrestrial ecology
  • Allergy
  • Preventative health care
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore trap
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • pollen count
  • Grain per Cubic Metre
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Grain per Cubic Metre
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Weekly - < Monthly
Australian Plant Name Index
  • Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Chenopodiaceae Vent.
  • Cupressaceae Gray
  • Cyperaceae Juss.
  • Myrtaceae Juss.
  • Poaceae Barnhart
  • Urticaceae Juss.
  • Acacia Mill.
  • Pinus L.
  • Plantago L.
Keywords (Discipline)
  • weekly pollen counts

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Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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License
Use constraints
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Other constraints
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
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Brisbane_weekly_pollen_counts_Jun1994-May1999

Distribution Information

Distribution format

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 a seven-day Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore trap and the instrument’s orifice elevated 2&nbsp;m 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 m<sup>-3</sup) 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).
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/9ed85108-6f82-492e-b694-de1f073f89cb

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9ed85108-6f82-492e-b694-de1f073f89cb

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-05-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:56:51.971987+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

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Allergy Environmental assessment and monitoring Environmental management Preventative health care Terrestrial ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
POLLEN

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