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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aerobiologia (Bologna). 2020 Apr 7;36(3):401–415. doi: 10.1007/s10453-020-09638-8

Table 3:

Estimated pollen production for trees surveyed in randomly selected and representative plots (the i-Tree Eco census, described in the methods section) and for a street tree database within Ann Arbor, Michigan. Descriptive statistics for tree size and number are provided for each dataset; for the i-Tree Eco total city-wide pollen estimates are calculated by scaling the area surveyed (0.08 km2) to the area of the city (72.08 km2). Total pollen estimates for three species are scaled according to their sex ratio (indicated by “*”; sex ratios are provided in SI 7).

Taxon Representative plot-based census Street tree database Pollen production
estimate for a 20
cm DBH tree (in
billions)
Number
of trees
Mean
DBH
(cm)
Pollen/
mean
tree (in
billions)
Total pollen
production in
Ann Arbor
(in trillions)
Number of
trees
Mean
DBH
(cm)
Pollen/
mean tree
(in billions)
Total pollen
produced by
street trees in
Ann Arbor (in
trillions)
Acer negundo 63 15.3 5.1 454 127 29.3 17.4 3.1 8.4
Acer platanoides 46 16.1 1.7 83 5,289 34.0 3.5 21.5 2.0
Acer rubrum 41 18.5 2.9 15* 3,053 17.2 2.7 1.2* 3.2
Acer saccharinum 19 52.1 5.7 136 1,818 58.0 6.4 14.7 3.4
Betula papyrifera 4 15.3 15.4 69 17 17.5 18.6 0.4 22.9
Gleditsia triacanthos 11 27.0 34.4 491 3,649 30.5 45.0 210.9 17.5
Juglans nigra 47 19.8 18.6 959 740 48.1 54.6 47.0 18.7
Morus alba 13 8.3 256.8 1,814* 130 26.1 344.5 37.9* 486.0
Platanus × acerifolia 4 32.2 87.8 453 1,886 33.0 92.0 247.3 34.8
Populus deltoides 5 27.1 35.6 88* 206 50.0 47.0 6.6* 33.8
Quercus palustris 3 35.3 46.9 180 177 31.2 39.9 8.7 25.3
Quercus rubra 78 28.9 63.9 5,929 1,264 22.8 53.4 87.6 49.4
Ulmus americana 161 11.6 11.6 1,824 776 24.6 14.4 41.2 13.1
All focal species 495 18.9 - 12,495 19,132 32.3 - 728.1 -
All non-focal species 1,377 15.0 - - 38,406 20.9 - - -
All trees 1,872 16.0 - - 52,896 25.0 - - -