Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen

When the landfill use comes to end, important subsequent steps include aftercare, safety assurance, and ecological regeneration. Landfill revegetation is cost-effective and eco-friendly approach in the management of landfill areas, which serves the purpose of stabilization and provides a pleasant la...

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Autores principales: Vaverková, Magdalena Daria, Adamcová, Dana, Winkler, Jan, Koda, Eugeniusz, Červenková, Jana, Podlasek, Anna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31842278
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245064
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author Vaverková, Magdalena Daria
Adamcová, Dana
Winkler, Jan
Koda, Eugeniusz
Červenková, Jana
Podlasek, Anna
author_facet Vaverková, Magdalena Daria
Adamcová, Dana
Winkler, Jan
Koda, Eugeniusz
Červenková, Jana
Podlasek, Anna
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description When the landfill use comes to end, important subsequent steps include aftercare, safety assurance, and ecological regeneration. Landfill revegetation is cost-effective and eco-friendly approach in the management of landfill areas, which serves the purpose of stabilization and provides a pleasant landscape. There are various vegetation types that can be planted, yet grass species are often used for low-cost reasons. Plants can be important sources of air pollution, particularly by grass pollen. The main goal of our study was to identify plant species that produce allergenic pollen. Long-term vegetation monitoring took place on three sites in the growing seasons of years 2008–2018. Studied objects were landfills located in the Czech Republic. The vegetation was assessed using a floristic survey of identified plant species. Plant species that produced allergens were recorded. During the monitoring, 298 plant species were determined. Plant species with allergenic pollen have a considerable share in the landfill vegetation. Thus, landfills are potential sources of various kinds of allergenic pollen. Moreover, our results indicated that there are three periods of pollen production: early spring, late spring, and early summer; late summer; and autumn. The second period is typical for the production of highly allergenic pollen by grasses. Most detected plant species with allergenic pollen are common for all monitored sites, which demonstrates that the vegetation of landfills is a significant source of allergenic pollen.
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spelling pubmed-69507322020-01-16 Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen Vaverková, Magdalena Daria Adamcová, Dana Winkler, Jan Koda, Eugeniusz Červenková, Jana Podlasek, Anna Int J Environ Res Public Health Article When the landfill use comes to end, important subsequent steps include aftercare, safety assurance, and ecological regeneration. Landfill revegetation is cost-effective and eco-friendly approach in the management of landfill areas, which serves the purpose of stabilization and provides a pleasant landscape. There are various vegetation types that can be planted, yet grass species are often used for low-cost reasons. Plants can be important sources of air pollution, particularly by grass pollen. The main goal of our study was to identify plant species that produce allergenic pollen. Long-term vegetation monitoring took place on three sites in the growing seasons of years 2008–2018. Studied objects were landfills located in the Czech Republic. The vegetation was assessed using a floristic survey of identified plant species. Plant species that produced allergens were recorded. During the monitoring, 298 plant species were determined. Plant species with allergenic pollen have a considerable share in the landfill vegetation. Thus, landfills are potential sources of various kinds of allergenic pollen. Moreover, our results indicated that there are three periods of pollen production: early spring, late spring, and early summer; late summer; and autumn. The second period is typical for the production of highly allergenic pollen by grasses. Most detected plant species with allergenic pollen are common for all monitored sites, which demonstrates that the vegetation of landfills is a significant source of allergenic pollen. MDPI 2019-12-12 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6950732/ /pubmed/31842278 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245064 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Vaverková, Magdalena Daria
Adamcová, Dana
Winkler, Jan
Koda, Eugeniusz
Červenková, Jana
Podlasek, Anna
Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title_full Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title_fullStr Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title_full_unstemmed Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title_short Influence of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill on the Surrounding Environment: Landfill Vegetation as a Potential Risk of Allergenic Pollen
title_sort influence of a municipal solid waste landfill on the surrounding environment: landfill vegetation as a potential risk of allergenic pollen
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31842278
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245064
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