Abstract
Pollination ecology of Quercus is influenced by meteorological, biotic and genetic factors. This study was undertaken to ascertain the effect induced by these factors on pollen production, release and dispersion. Aerobiological data have been used in recent years as phenological information, because the presence of pollen in the air is the result of flowering across a wide area. The onset of the Quercus pollen season and the atmospheric pollen concentrations during the pollination period in two localities of north-west Spain (Ourense and Santiago) were determined from 1993 to 2001. There were important variations in total annual pollen as a result of meteorological conditions, lenticular galls produced by Neuropterus on catkins and biennial genetic rhythms of pollen production. In order to determine the beginning of flowering, a thermal time model has been used. Chill requirements were around 800 chilling hours (CH) and heat requirements were 953 growth degree days (GDD in °C) in Santiago and 586 GDD in Ourense. Pollen in the air show positive correlation (99% significance) with daily thermal oscillation, maximum and minimum temperatures, and hours of sunshine. Regression analysis with previous days’ pollen concentrations explained the high percentage of pollen concentration variability, as meteorological variables do not, on their own, explain pollen production and release. © 2005 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005, 149, 283–297.
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