Can Transplanted Sea Urchins Aid Reef Corals in their Recovery? The USGS Center for Coastal and Marine Studies presents the hypothesis that many coral reef events, algal infestation, white band and black band disease, sea fan disease, sea urchin die-off and possibly mass coral bleaching are somehow related to dust from north Africa. The web site provides images and a QuickTime mini-documentary.
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