Аннотация:Allergy is considered as one of the most common diseases. According to the WHO, about 40% of the world's population suffer from various allergic reactions (Khaitov, Ilyina, 2009). One of the most
widespread allergic diseases is pollinosis, an illness caused by the pollen of different plants. Pollinosis causes sniffle, cough, tearing and swelling of the eyelids, bronchial asthma attacks. More than 700 species of pollen allergy plants are known. About 120 species are widespread in Russia (Dikareva, Rumyantsev,
2015).
One of the main specific features of pollinosis is the seasonality of the manifestation of the disease, which coincides with the period of flowering of certain plants. The season of flowering of allergy plants begin in early spring, when alder gray (Alnus incana) and common hazel (Corylus avellana) start to blossom.
Later, the flowering of common birch (Betula pendula) begins. Birch plays the role of the main spring allergy trees due to its cosmopolitan spread within its natural habitat.
Plant flowering is closely related to some important climatic indices, such as the average daily temperature and stable transitions of average daily temperatures through threshold values, indicating certain phenological periods. Thus, the transition of temperatures through +5°C coincides with the beginning of the growing season and flowering of alder and hazel. Correlation links between the phenological phases of birch and the seasons’ temperature regimes have been well studied (Minin et al., 2000, 2014, 2016). Flowering of birch corresponds to the transition of average daily temperature through the threshold of +10°С.