TY - JOUR
T1 - An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals
AU - Hornick, Thomas
AU - Richter, Anett
AU - Harpole, William Stanley
AU - Bastl, Maximilian
AU - Bohlmann, Stephanie
AU - Bonn, Aletta
AU - Bumberger, Jan
AU - Dietrich, Peter
AU - Gemeinholzer, Birgit
AU - Grote, Rüdiger
AU - Heinold, Bernd
AU - Keller, Alexander
AU - Luttkus, Marie L.
AU - Mäder, Patrick
AU - Motivans Švara, Elena
AU - Passonneau, Sarah
AU - Punyasena, Surangi W.
AU - Rakosy, Demetra
AU - Richter, Ronny
AU - Sickel, Wiebke
AU - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
AU - Theodorou, Panagiotis
AU - Treudler, Regina
AU - Werchan, Barbora
AU - Werchan, Matthias
AU - Wolke, Ralf
AU - Dunker, Susanne
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was the result of two conceptual workshops, organized by the FlexPool project “PolDiv,” that were a first step towards establishing a network of scientific disciplines dealing with pollen data. We thank all workshop participants, who have been involved as co‐authors or just workshop participants (Holger Baars, David Boho, Christina Endler, Robert Paxton, Paul Remmler, and David Schäfer) in developing this theoretical framework of integrated pollen research and monitoring. We want to acknowledge Juliane Smith and Xenia Bühne for their administrative support of the workshops. The two expert workshops were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the iDiv FlexPool budget and project of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig (Grant Number: 34600865‐16, “Kick‐off‐Meeting PolDiv” and Grant Number: 34600830‐13, “PolDiv”‐Project). Open access provided through Projekt DEAL.
Funding Information:
This work was the result of two conceptual workshops, organized by the FlexPool project “PolDiv,” that were a first step towards establishing a network of scientific disciplines dealing with pollen data. We thank all workshop participants, who have been involved as co-authors or just workshop participants (Holger Baars, David Boho, Christina Endler, Robert Paxton, Paul Remmler, and David Schäfer) in developing this theoretical framework of integrated pollen research and monitoring. We want to acknowledge Juliane Smith and Xenia Bühne for their administrative support of the workshops. The two expert workshops were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the iDiv FlexPool budget and project of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (Grant Number: 34600865-16, “Kick-off-Meeting PolDiv” and Grant Number: 34600830-13, “PolDiv”-Project). Open access provided through Projekt DEAL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Plants, People, Planet published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of New Phytologist Foundation.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Pollen relates to many aspects of human and environmental health, which protection and improvement are endorsed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By highlighting these connections in the frame of current challenges in monitoring and research, we discuss the need of more integrative and multidisciplinary pollen research related to societal needs, improving health of humans and our ecosystems for a sustainable future. Summary: Pollen is at once intimately part of the reproductive cycle of seed plants and simultaneously highly relevant for the environment (pollinators, vector for nutrients, or organisms), people (food safety and health), and climate (cloud condensation nuclei and climate reconstruction). We provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the many and connected roles of pollen to foster a better integration of the currently disparate fields of pollen research, which would benefit from the sharing of general knowledge, technical advancements, or data processing solutions. We propose a more interdisciplinary and holistic research approach that encompasses total environmental pollen diversity (ePD) (wind and animal and occasionally water distributed pollen) at multiple levels of diversity (genotypic, phenotypic, physiological, chemical, and functional) across space and time. This interdisciplinary approach holds the potential to contribute to pressing human issues, including addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, fostering social and political awareness of these tiny yet important and fascinating particles.
AB - Pollen relates to many aspects of human and environmental health, which protection and improvement are endorsed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By highlighting these connections in the frame of current challenges in monitoring and research, we discuss the need of more integrative and multidisciplinary pollen research related to societal needs, improving health of humans and our ecosystems for a sustainable future. Summary: Pollen is at once intimately part of the reproductive cycle of seed plants and simultaneously highly relevant for the environment (pollinators, vector for nutrients, or organisms), people (food safety and health), and climate (cloud condensation nuclei and climate reconstruction). We provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the many and connected roles of pollen to foster a better integration of the currently disparate fields of pollen research, which would benefit from the sharing of general knowledge, technical advancements, or data processing solutions. We propose a more interdisciplinary and holistic research approach that encompasses total environmental pollen diversity (ePD) (wind and animal and occasionally water distributed pollen) at multiple levels of diversity (genotypic, phenotypic, physiological, chemical, and functional) across space and time. This interdisciplinary approach holds the potential to contribute to pressing human issues, including addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, fostering social and political awareness of these tiny yet important and fascinating particles.
KW - aerobiology
KW - allergy
KW - diversity
KW - environmental monitoring
KW - food safety
KW - paleoecology
KW - palynology
KW - pollination
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U2 - 10.1002/ppp3.10234
DO - 10.1002/ppp3.10234
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118494188
SN - 2572-2611
VL - 4
SP - 110
EP - 121
JO - Plants People Planet
JF - Plants People Planet
IS - 2
ER -