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  1. Bioaerosols on the atmospheric super highway: An example of long distance transport of Alternaria spores from the Pannonian Plain to Poland

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  2. Editorial: Climate Change and Aeroallergens

    Article • Frontiers in Allergy, December 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Matt Smith

  3. Effects of future climate change on birch abundance and their pollen load

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  4. Spatial and temporal variations in the distribution of birch trees and airborne Betula pollen in Ireland

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  5. The effects of climate change on the flowering phenology of alder trees in southwestern Europe

    Article • Mediterranean Botany, February 2021, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Matt Smith

  6. Consequences of climate change on airborne pollen in Bavaria, Central Europe

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  7. Interlaboratory proficiency test in aerobiology using virtual slides – feasibility study

    Article • Grana, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Matt Smith

  8. Recent developments in monitoring and modelling airborne pollen, a review

    Article • Grana, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Matt Smith

  9. Particle size distribution of the major Alternaria alternata allergen, Alt a 1, derived from airborne spores and subspore fragments

    Article • Fungal Biology, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  10. Building an automatic pollen monitoring network (ePIN): Selection of optimal sites by clustering pollen stations

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  11. Predicting abundances of invasive ragweed across Europe using a “top-down” approach

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  12. Concomitant occurrence of anthropogenic air pollutants, mineral dust and fungal spores during long-distance transport of ragweed pollen

    Article • Environmental Pollution, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  13. An abbreviated method for the quality control of pollen counters

    Article • Grana, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Matt Smith

  14. Cross-fertilizing weed science and plant invasion science to improve efficient management: A European challenge

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  15. Cross-sensitization to Artemisia and Ambrosia pollen allergens in an area located outside of the current distribution range of Ambrosia

    Article • Advances in Dermatology and Allergology, January 2018, Termedia Sp. z.o.o.

    Dr Matt Smith

  16. Ambrosia pollen source inventory for Italy: a multi-purpose tool to assess the impact of the ragweed leaf beetle (Ophraella communa LeSage) on populations of its host plant

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  17. Recommended terminology for aerobiological studies

    Article • Aerobiologia, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  18. Aerobiology in the International Journal of Biometeorology, 1957–2017

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  19. The Worldwide Spread, Success, and Impact of Ragweed (Ambrosia spp.)

    Article • Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Matt Smith

  20. Spatial and temporal variations in the Annual Pollen Index recorded by sites belonging to the Portuguese Aerobiology Network

    Article • Aerobiologia, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  21. Spatial and temporal variations in airborne Ambrosia pollen in Europe

    Article • Aerobiologia, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  22. Airborne Quercus pollen in SW Spain: Identifying favourable conditions for atmospheric transport and potential source areas

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  23. 10.1007/s10453-016-9441-7

    Article • Aerobiologia, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  24. Pollen nightmare: elevated airborne pollen levels at night

    Article • Aerobiologia, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  25. The long distance transport of airborne Ambrosia pollen to the UK and the Netherlands from Central and south Europe

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  26. Mesoscale atmospheric transport of ragweed pollen allergens from infected to uninfected areas

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  27. Risk of exposure to airborne Ambrosia pollen from local and distant sources in Europe – an example from Denmark

    Article • Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, December 2015, Index Copernicus

    Dr Matt Smith

  28. Potential sources of airborne Alternaria spp. spores in South-west Spain

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  29. A follow-up study examining airborne Ambrosia pollen in the Milan area in 2014 in relation to the accidental introduction of the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa

    Article • Aerobiologia, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  30. Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen source inventory for Austria

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  31. Variation of the group 5 grass pollen allergen content of airborne pollen in relation to geographic location and time in season

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  32. Biological Flora of the British Isles:Ambrosia artemisiifolia

    Article • Journal of Ecology, June 2015, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  33. Is the recent decrease in airborne Ambrosia pollen in the Milan area due to the accidental introduction of the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa?

    Article • Aerobiologia, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  34. Characteristics and trends of selected pollen seasons recorded in Parma (Northern Italy) from 1994 to 2011

    Article • Aerobiologia, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  35. Searching for a trace of Artemisia campestris pollen in the air

    Article • Acta Agrobotanica, January 2015, Polish Botanical Society

    Dr Matt Smith

  36. Relative efficiencies of the Burkard 7-Day, Rotorod and Burkard Personal samplers for Poaceae and Urticaceae pollen under field conditions

    Article • Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, November 2014, Index Copernicus

    Dr Matt Smith

  37. Predicting walnut (Juglansspp.) crop yield using meteorological and airborne pollen data

    Article • Annals of Applied Biology, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  38. Geographic and temporal variations in pollen exposure across Europe

    Article • Allergy, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Maira Bonini, Dr Matt Smith

  39. Comparison of Poaceae pollen counts recorded at sites in Portugal, Spain and the UK

    Article • Aerobiologia, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  40. Pollen monitoring: minimum requirements and reproducibility of analysis

    Article • Aerobiologia, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  41. Seasonal variation in diurnal atmospheric grass pollen concentration profiles

    Article • Biogeosciences, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Matt Smith

  42. Ragweed pollen source inventory for France – The second largest centre of Ambrosia in Europe

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  43. Development of a symptom load index: enabling temporal and regional pollen season comparisons and pointing out the need for personalized pollen information

    Article • Aerobiologia, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  44. Trends in atmospheric concentrations of weed pollen in the context of recent climate warming in Poznań (Western Poland)

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  45. Pollen and Pollinosis

    Article • January 2014, Karger Publishers

    Dr Matt Smith

  46. Personal exposure to grass pollen: relating inhaled dose to background concentration

    Article • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  47. Common ragweed: A threat to environmental health in Europe

    Article • Environment International, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  48. A mechanism for long distance transport of Ambrosia pollen from the Pannonian Plain

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  49. Pollen counting: a history

    Article • Allergo Journal, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  50. Do urban canyons influence street level grass pollen concentrations?

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  51. Spread of invasive ragweed: climate change, management and how to reduce allergy costs

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  52. Variations in Quercus sp. pollen seasons (1996–2011) in Poznań, Poland, in relation to meteorological parameters

    Article • Aerobiologia, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  53. The patient’s hay-fever diary: three years of results from Germany

    Article • Aerobiologia, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  54. Airborne olive pollen counts are not representative of exposure to the major olive allergen Ole e 1

    Article • Allergy, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  55. The influence of sensitisation to pollens and moulds on seasonal variations in asthma attacks

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, March 2013, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Matt Smith

  56. Personalized Forecasting of Pollen-Induced Symptoms for Hay-Fever Sufferers

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  57. Identification of potential sources of airborne Olea pollen in the Southwest Iberian Peninsula

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  58. Variations and trends of birch pollen seasons during 15 years (1996–2010) in relation to weather conditions in Poznań (western Poland)

    Article • Grana, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Matt Smith

  59. Airborne Pollen Transport

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  60. Monitoring, Modelling and Forecasting of the Pollen Season

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  61. Presentation and Dissemination of Pollen Information

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  62. The Onset, Course and Intensity of the Pollen Season

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  63. Release of Bet v 1 from birch pollen from 5 European countries. Results from the HIALINE study

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  64. Analysis and forecasting of airborne pollen–induced symptoms with the aid of computational intelligence methods

    Article • Aerobiologia, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  65. Variation in Artemisia pollen seasons in Central and Eastern Europe

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  66. Pollen season and climate: Is the timing of birch pollen release in the UK approaching its limit?

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  67. Prevalence of Allergy and Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms in Runners of the London Marathon

    Article • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, June 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Matt Smith

  68. Changes to Airborne Pollen Counts across Europe

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2012, PLOS

    Dr Matt Smith

  69. A 2-year aeropalynological survey of allergenic pollen in the atmosphere of Kastamonu, Turkey

    Article • Aerobiologia, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  70. A method to derive vegetation distribution maps for pollen dispersion models using birch as an example

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  71. The effect of changes to the method of estimating the pollen count from aerobiological samples

    Article • Journal of Environmental Monitoring, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Matt Smith

  72. The occurrence of Ambrosia pollen in Rzeszów, Kraków and Poznań, Poland: investigation of trends and possible transport of Ambrosia pollen from Ukraine

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  73. A method for producing airborne pollen source inventories: An example of Ambrosia (ragweed) on the Pannonian Plain

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  74. Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith, David Roy

  75. Influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on grass pollen counts in Europe

    Article • Aerobiologia, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  76. The Pannonian plain as a source of Ambrosia pollen in the Balkans

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  77. Are the birch trees in Southern England a source of Betula pollen for North London?

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  78. Long-range transport of Ambrosia pollen to Poland

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  79. Long-term and short-term forecast models for Poaceae (grass) pollen in Poznań, Poland, constructed using regression analysis

    Article • Environmental and Experimental Botany, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Smith

  80. Factors that determine the severity of Betula spp. pollen seasons in Poland (Poznań and Krakow) and the United Kingdom (Worcester and London)

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  81. The long-range transport of birch (Betula) pollen from Poland and Germany causes significant pre-season concentrations in Denmark

    Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, August 2007, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  82. Examining Ambrosia pollen episodes at Poznań (Poland) using back-trajectory analysis

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  83. Changes in the pollen seasons of the early flowering trees Alnus spp. and Corylus spp. in Worcester, United Kingdom, 1996–2005

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  84. Constructing a 7-day ahead forecast model for grass pollen at north London, United Kingdom

    Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  85. A 30-day-ahead forecast model for grass pollen in north London, United Kingdom

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  86. Constructing a 7-day ahead forecast model for grass pollen at north London, United Kingdom

    Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, October 2005, Wiley

    Dr Matt Smith

  87. Examining high magnitude grass pollen episodes at Worcester, United Kingdom, using back-trajectory analysis

    Article • Aerobiologia, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith

  88. Characteristics of grass pollen seasons in areas of southern Spain and the United Kingdom

    Article • Aerobiologia, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matt Smith