AirPollution

Dust and Other Air Pollutants

Dust

Seminal article about African dust and the effects on Caribbean coral reefs. African dust can carry heavy metals, pesticides, fungi, and bacteria, and may contribute to coral disease:

Shinn, Eugene A., et al. "African dust and the demise of Caribbean coral reefs." Geophysical Research Letters 27.19 (2000): 3029-3032.

Dust documentary from USGS:

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/documentary.html

Maybe African dust doesn't carry the pathogens causing aspergillosis:

Krystal L. Rypien, Jason P. Andras and C. Drew Harvell. Globally panmictic population structure in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus sydowii. Molecular Ecology (2008) 17, 4068–4078 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03894.x

Aerosols

The effects of aerosols on coral reef growth: Lester Kwiatkowski, Peter M. Cox, Theo Economou, Paul R. Halloran, Peter J. Mumby, Ben B. B. Booth, Jessica Carilli, et al. (2013). Caribbean coral growth influenced by anthropogenic aerosol emissions. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo1780