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Annika
Saarto
Unit Manager, Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
Docent, Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
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Contact

+358 29 450 3982
+358 50 442 0249
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Turku

Areas of expertise

Aerobiology
Pollen and spore monitoring
Biodiversity

Research

On-going projects and collaborations:

Aeroallergens and immunological preparedness for future climate scenarios: implications for public health promotion (ALL-IMPRESS), Academy of Finland, 2020-2023. Coordination: University of Eastern Finland (prof. Marjut Roponen). Partner: Finnish Meteorological Institute (doc. Mika Komppula).

Pedagogics of Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability (PEBES), Finnish Agency for Education, 2022-2024. Coordination: University of Turku. Parners: Humak University of Applied Sciences, Bostwana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Namibia. http://sites.utu.fi/pebes

A System for real-time observation of Aeroallergens (SYLVA), Horizon Europe, 2023-2026. Coordination: Finnish Meteorological Institute (prof. Mikhail Sofiev).

New approaches in detection of pathogens and aeroallergens, COST action, The European Cooperation in Science and Technology, 2019-2023. Coordination: Aarhus University (prof. Carsten Skjøth).

Biodiversity Education Network, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, 2021-2022. Coordination: University of Eastern Finland (prof. Elina Oksanen). https://www.biodiversityeducation.fi/ (only in Finnish)

Publications

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Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi (2024)

Nature
Abrego, Nerea; Furneaux, Brendan; Hardwick, Bess; Somervuo, Panu; Palorinne, Isabella; Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.; Andrew, Nigel R.; Babiy, Ulyana V.; Bao, Tan; Bazzano, Gisela; Bondarchuk, Svetlana N.; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; Brennan, Georgina L.; Bret-Harte, Syndonia; Bässler, Claus; Cagnolo, Luciano; Cameron, Erin K.; Chapurlat, Elodie; Creer, Simon; D’Acqui, Luigi P.; de Vere, Natasha; Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure; Dongmo, Michel A. K.; Jacobsen, Ida B. Dyrholm; Fisher, Brian L.; Flores de Jesus, Miguel; Gilbert, Gregory S.; Griffith, Gareth W.; Gritsuk, Anna A.; Gross, Andrin; Grudd, Håkan; Halme, Panu; Hanna, Rachid; Hansen, Jannik; Hansen, Lars Holst; Hegbe, Apollon D. M. T.; Hill, Sarah; Hogg, Ian D.; Hultman, Jenni; Hyde, Kevin D.; Hynson, Nicole A.; Ivanova, Natalia; Karisto, Petteri; Kerdraon, Deirdre; Knorre, Anastasia; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Kurhinen, Juri; Kuzmina, Masha; Lecomte, Nicolas; Lecomte, Erin; Loaiza, Viviana; Lundin, Erik; Meire, Alexander; Mešić, Armin; Miettinen, Otto; Monkhouse, Norman; Mortimer, Peter; Müller, Jörg; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Nonti, Puani Yannick C.; Nordén, Jenni; Nordén, Björn; Norros, Veera; Paz, Claudia; Pellikka, Petri; Pereira, Danilo; Petch, Geoff; Pitkänen, Juha-Matti; Popa, Flavius; Potter, Caitlin; Purhonen, Jenna; Pätsi, Sanna; Rafiq, Abdullah; Raharinjanahary, Dimby; Rakos, Niklas; Rathnayaka, Achala R.; Raundrup, Katrine; Rebriev, Yury A.; Rikkinen, Jouko; Rogers, Hanna M. K.; Rogovsky, Andrey; Rozhkov, Yuri; Runnel, Kadri; Saarto, Annika; Savchenko, Anton; Schlegel, Markus; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Seibold, Sebastian; Skjøth, Carsten; Stengel, Elisa; Sutyrina, Svetlana V.; Syvänperä, Ilkka; Tedersoo, Leho; Timm, Jebidiah; Tipton, Laura; Toju, Hirokazu; Uscka-Perzanowska, Maria; van der Bank, Michelle; van der Bank, F. Herman; Vandenbrink, Bryan; Ventura, Stefano; Vignisson, Solvi R.; Wang, Xiaoyang; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Wijesinghe, Subodini N.; Wright, S. Joseph; Yang, Chunyan; Yorou, Nourou S.; Young, Amanda; Yu, Douglas W.; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Roslin, Tomas; Ovaskainen, Otso
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

European pollen reanalysis, 1980-2022, for alder, birch, and olive (2024)

Scientific Data
Sofiev, Mikhail; Palamarchuk, Julia; Kouznetsov, Rostislav; Abramidze, Tamuna; Adams-Groom, Beverley; Antunes, Celia M.; Arino, Arturo H.; Bastl, Maximilian; Belmonte, Jordina; Berger, Uwe E.; Bonini, Maira; Bruffaerts, Nicolas; Buters, Jeroen; Carinanos, Paloma; Celenk, Sevcan; Ceriotti, Valentina; Charalampopoulos, Athanasios; Clewlow, Yolanda; Clot, Bernard; Dahl, Aslog; Damialis, Athanasios; De Linares, Concepcion; De Weger, Letty A.; Dirr, Lukas; Ekebom, Agneta; Fatahi, Yalda; Gonzalez, Maria Fernandez; Gonzalez, Delia Fernandez; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Santiago; Galan, Carmen; Gedda, Bjoern; Gehrig, Regula; Bernstein, Carmi Geller; Roldan, Nestor Gonzalez; Grewling, Lukasz; Hajkova, Lenka; Hänninen, Risto; Hentges, Francois; Jantunen, Juha; Kadantsev, Evgeny; Kasprzyk, Idalia; Kloster, Mathilde; Kluska, Katarzyna; Koenders, Mieke; Laffersova, Janka; Leru, Poliana Mihaela; Lipiec, Agnieszka; Louna-Korteniemi, Maria; Magyar, Donat; Majkowska-Wojciechowska, Barbara; Mäkelä, Mika; Mitrovic, Mirjana; Myszkowska, Dorota; Oliver, Gilles; Ostensson, Pia; Perez-Badia, Rosa; Piotrowska-Weryszko, Krystyna; Prank, Marje; Przedpelska-Wasowicz, Ewa Maria; Pätsi, Sanna; Rajo, F. Javier Rodriguyez; Ramfjord, Hallvard; Rapiejko, Joanna; Rodinkova, Victoria; Rojo, Jesus; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Luis; Rybnicek, Ondrej; Saarto, Annika; Sauliene, Ingrida; Seliger, Andreja Kofol; Severova, Elena; Shalaboda, Valentina; Sikoparija, Branko; Siljamo, Pilvi; Soares, Joana; Sozinova, Olga; Stangel, Anders; Stjepanovic, Barbara; Teinemaa, Erik; Tyuryakov, Svyatoslav; Trigo, M. Mar; Uppstu, Andreas; Vill, Mart; Vira, Julius; Visez, Nicolas; Vitikainen, Tiina; Vokou, Despoina; Weryszko-Chmielewska, Elzbieta; Karppinen, Ari
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu data-artikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Forecasting daily total pollen concentrations on a global scale (2024)

Allergy
Makra, László; Coviello, Luca; Gobbi, Andrea; Jurman, Giuseppe; Furlanello, Cesare; Brunato, Mauro; Ziska, Lewis H.; Hess, Jeremy J.; Damialis, Athanasios; Garcia, Maria Pilar Plaza; Tusnády, Gábor; Czibolya, Lilit; Ihász, István; Deák, Áron József; Mikó, Edit; Dorner, Zita; Harry, Susan K.; Bruffaerts, Nicolas; Packeu, Ann; Saarto, Annika; Toiviainen, Linnea; Louna-Korteniemi, Maria; Pätsi, Sanna; Thibaudon, Michel; Oliver, Gilles; Charalampopoulos, Athanasios; Vokou, Despoina; Przedpelska-Wasowicz, Ewa Maria; Guðjohnsen, Ellý Renée; Bonini, Maira; Celenk, Sevcan; Ozaslan, Cumali; Oh, Jae-Won; Sullivan, Krista; Ford, Linda; Kelly, Michelle; Levetin, Estelle; Myszkowska, Dorota; Severova, Elena; Gehrig, Regula; Calderón-Ezquerro, María Del Carmen; Guerra, César Guerrero; Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel Andres; Ramón, Germán Darío; Barrionuevo, Laura Beatriz; Peter, Jonny; Berman, Dilys; Katelaris, Connie H.; Davies, Janet M.; Burton, Pamela; Beggs, Paul J.; Vergamini, Sandra María; Valencia-Barrera, Rosa María; Traidl-Hoffmann, Claudia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Global Spore Sampling Project : A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA (2024)

Scientific Data
Ovaskainen, Otso; Abrego, Nerea; Furneaux, Brendan; Hardwick, Bess; Somervuo, Panu; Palorinne, Isabella; Andrew, Nigel R.; Babiy, Ulyana V.; Bao, Tan; Bazzano, Gisela; Bondarchuk, Svetlana N.; Bonebrake, Timothy C.; Brennan, Georgina L.; Bret-Harte, Syndonia; Bässler, Claus; Cagnolo, Luciano; Cameron, Erin K.; Chapurlat, Elodie; Creer, Simon; D’Acqui, Luigi P.; de Vere, Natasha; Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure; Dongmo, Michel A. K.; Dyrholm Jacobsen, Ida B.; Fisher, Brian L.; Flores de Jesus, Miguel; Gilbert, Gregory S.; Griffith, Gareth W.; Gritsuk, Anna A.; Gross, Andrin; Grudd, Håkan; Halme, Panu; Hanna, Rachid; Hansen, Jannik; Hansen, Lars Holst; Hegbe, Apollon D. M. T.; Hill, Sarah; Hogg, Ian D.; Hultman, Jenni; Hyde, Kevin D.; Hynson, Nicole A.; Ivanova, Natalia; Karisto, Petteri; Kerdraon, Deirdre; Knorre, Anastasia; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Kurhinen, Juri; Kuzmina, Masha; Lecomte, Nicolas; Lecomte, Erin; Loaiza, Viviana; Lundin, Erik; Meire, Alexander; Mešić, Armin; Miettinen, Otto; Monkhause, Norman; Mortimer, Peter; Müller, Jörg; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Nonti, Puani Yannick C.; Nordén, Jenni; Nordén, Björn; Paz, Claudia; Pellikka, Petri; Pereira, Danilo; Petch, Geoff; Pitkänen, Juha-Matti; Popa, Flavius; Potter, Caitlin; Purhonen, Jenna; Pätsi, Sanna; Rafiq, Abdullah; Raharinjanahary, Dimby; Rakos, Niklas; Rathnayaka, Achala R.; Raundrup, Katrine; Rebriev, Yury A.; Rikkinen, Jouko; Rogers, Hanna M. K.; Rogovsky, Andrey; Rozhkov, Yuri; Runnel, Kadri; Saarto, Annika; Savchenko, Anton; Schlegel, Markus; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Seibold, Sebastian; Skjøth, Carsten; Stengel, Elisa; Sutyrina, Svetlana V.; Syvänperä, Ilkka; Tedersoo, Leho; Timm, Jebidiah; Tipton, Laura; Toju, Hirokazu; Uscka-Perzanowska, Maria; van der Bank, Michelle; Herman van der Bank, F.; Vandenbrink, Bryan; Ventura, Stefano; Vignisson, Solvi R.; Wang, Xiaoyang; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Wijesinghe, Subodini N.; Joseph Wright, S.; Yang, Chunyan; Yorou, Nourou S.; Young, Amanda; Yu, Douglas W.; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Roslin, Tomas
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu data-artikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Effects of tree pollen on throughfall element fluxes in European forests (2023)

Biogeochemistry
Verstraeten Arne, Brufaerts Nicolas, Cristofolini Fabiana, Vanguelova Elena, Neirynck Johan, Genouw Gerrit, De Vos Bruno, Waldner Peter, Thimonier Anne, Nussbaumer Anita, Neumann Mathias, Benham Sue, Rautio Pasi, Ukonmaanaho Liisa, Merilä Päivi, Lindroos Antti-Jussi, Saarto Annika, Reiniharju Jukka, Clarke Nicholas, Timmermann Volkmar, Nicolas Manuel, Schmitt Maria, Meusburger Katrin, Kowalska Anna, Kasprzyk Idalia, Kluska Katarzyna, Grewling Łukasz, Malkiewicz Małgorzata, Vesterdal Lars, Ingerslev Morten, Manninger Miklós, Magyar Donát, Titeux Hugues, Pihl Karlsson Gunilla, Gehrig Regula, Adriaenssens Sandy, Ekebom Agneta, Dahl Åslög, Ferretti Marco, Gottardini Elena
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Bioaerosols in the atmosphere at two sites in Northern Europe in spring 2021: Outline of an experimental campaign (2022)

Environmental Research
Sofiev Mikhail, Sofieva Svetlana, Palamarchuk Julia, Šaulienė Ingrida, Kadantsev Evgeny, Atanasova Nina, Fatahi Yalda, Kouznetsov Rostislav, Kuula Joel, Noreikaite Auste, Peltonen Martina, Pihlajamäki Timo, Saarto Annika, Svirskaite Julija, Toiviainen Linnea, Tyuryakov Svyatoslav, Šukienė Laura, Asmi Eija, Bamford Dennis, Hyvärinen Antti-Pekka, Karppinen Ari
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Automatic detection of airborne pollen: an overview (2022)

Aerobiologia
Buters Jeroen, Clot Bernard, Galán Carmen, Gehrig Regula, Gilge Stefan, Hentges François, O’Connor David, Sikoparija Branko, Skjoth Carsten, Tummon Fiona, Adams-Groom Beverley, Antunes Célia M., Bruffaerts Nicolas, Çelenk Sevcan, Crouzy Benoit, Guillaud Géraldine, Hajkova Lenka, Seliger Andreja Kofol, Oliver Gilles, Ribeiro Helena, Rodinkova Victoria, Saarto Annika, Sauliene Ingrida, Sozinova Olga, Stjepanovic Barbara
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))