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Relationship between urban allergophytes and the allergies in the human population of central Italy
No full textRicrche sulla flora allergenica dell'Appennino centrale: l'esempio della Riserva naturale di Torricchio.
No full textImpiego della vegetazione ripariale nella valutazione della qualità dell’ecosistema fluviale.
No full textUrban allergophytes of central Italy
No full textThis research was designed to compare
allergenic flora of various cities of central Italy.
Because the data on this problem are rather scant, we
wanted to highlight the relationships among the
ecological conditions of the urban habitats, and the
plants whose pollens cause allergic manifestations in
the human population. Our results pointed out that the
structural design of the urban land use types play an
important role in the distribution of allergophytes.
The compact structure of the historic city center does
not impede the establishment of allergophytes. Actually,
it promotes some species that come from the dry
pastures and rocky walls of the surrounding ecosystems.
Allergenicity was revealed throughout the
urban area, with a prevalence of species with
monoporate pollens characteristic of the Poaceae.
Highly allergenic plants are present in the central
zone (within the city walls) and in some peripheral
land use models (urban road verges). The particular
abundance of Urticaceae with small triporate pollen
grains and of various cultivated species, introduced
by man for aesthetic reasons, contributes to the
increase of allergophytism. The study points out the
role of the interactions between the allergenic flora,
human impact through the land use patterns, urban
fauna, and the meso- and microclimatic conditions of
the cities studied
Valutazione dello stato ecologico del torrente Castellano (bacino del Tronto, Marche) nel tratto urbano di Ascoli Piceno mediante analisi della componente vegetale.
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