• An operational robotic pollen monitoring network based on automatic image recognition 

      Oteros, José; Weber, Alisa; Kutzora, Suzanne; Rojo, Jesús; Heinze, Stefanie; Herr, Caroline; Gebauer, Robert; Schmidt-Weber, Carsten; Buters, Jeroen (Elsevier, 2020)
      There is high demand for online, real-time and high-quality pollen data. To the moment pollen monitoring has been done manually by highly specialized experts. Here we evaluate the electronic Pollen Information Network ...
    • Drivers of the release of the allergens Bet v 1 and Phl p 5 from birch and grass pollen 

      Maya-Manzano, José María; Oteros, José; Rojo, Jesús; Traidl-Hoffmann, Claudia; Schmidt-Weber, Carsten; Buters, Jeroen (Elsevier, 2022)
      The drivers affecting the Pollen Allergen Potency (PAP, amount of allergen released per pollen) are sparsely known. Betula and Poaceae airborne pollen are the two main allergenic pollen in the World. Airborne pollen ...
    • Effects of future climate change on birch abundance and their pollen load 

      Rojo, Jesús; Oteros, José; Picornell, Antonio; Maya-Manzano, José María; Damialis, Athanasios; Zink, Katrin; Werchan, Matthias; Werchan, Barbora; Smith, Matt; Menzel, Annette; Timpf, Sabine; Traidl-Hoffmann, Claudia; Bergmann, Karl C.; Schmidt-Weber, Carsten; Buters, Jeroen (Wiley, 2021)
      Climate change impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems will worsen public health issues like allergic diseases. Birch trees (Betula spp.) are important sources of aeroallergens in Central and Northern Europe. ...
    • Methods for interpolating missing data in aerobiological databases 

      Picornell, Antonio; Oteros, José; Ruiz-Mata, R.; Recio, M.; Trigo, M.M.; Martínez Bracero, Moisés; Lara, B.; Serrano-García, A.; Galán, Carmen; García-Mozo, H.; Alcázar, Purificación; Pérez-Badía, Rosa; Cabezudo, B.; Romero-Morte, J.; Rojo, Jesús (Elsevier, 2021)
      Missing data is a common problem in scientific research. The availability of extensive environmental time series is usually laborious and difficult, and sometimes unexpected failures are not detected until samples are ...