About the Authors

Chiara Ziello

ziello@wzw.tum.de

Affiliation Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Tim H. Sparks

Affiliations Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland

Nicole Estrella

Affiliations Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Jordina Belmonte

Affiliation Botany Unit and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Karl C. Bergmann

Affiliation Allergie-Centrum-Charité, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Edith Bucher

Affiliation Laboratorio Biologico, Agenzia provinciale per l'ambiente, Laives (BZ), Italy

Maria Antonia Brighetti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy

Athanasios Damialis

Affiliation Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Monique Detandt

Affiliation Section Mycology and Aerobiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Carmen Galán

Affiliation Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Regula Gehrig

Affiliation Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland

Lukasz Grewling

Affiliation Laboratory of Aeropalynology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Adela M. Gutiérrez Bustillo

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology II, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Margrét Hallsdóttir

Affiliation Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Gardabær, Iceland

Marie-Claire Kockhans-Bieda

Affiliation Station d'Aérobiologie, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Concepción De Linares

Affiliation Botany Unit and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Dorota Myszkowska

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Environmental Allergology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland

Anna Pàldy

Affiliation Department of Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, Hungary

Adriana Sánchez

Affiliation Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Matthew Smith

Affiliation National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

Michel Thibaudon

Affiliation Réseau National de Surveillance Aérobiologique, Brussieu, France

Alessandro Travaglini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy

Agnieszka Uruska

Affiliation Laboratory of Palaeoecology and Archaeobotany, Gdańsk University, Gdańsk, Poland

Rosa M. Valencia-Barrera

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Universidad de León, León, Spain

Despoina Vokou

Affiliation Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Reinhard Wachter

Affiliation Polleninformationsdienst Deutschland (PID), Ganderkesee, Germany

Letty A. de Weger

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Annette Menzel

Affiliations Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: CZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB KCB EB MAB AD MD CG RG LG AMGB MH MCKB CDL DM AP AS MS MT AT AU RMVB DV RW LADW. Wrote the paper: CZ THS NE AM. Conceived and designed the data analysis: CZ THS NE AM.