Selected toxins emitted by various aquatic and marine organisms and their concentration in aerosols.

Toxin, molecular structure	Selected species responsible for production	Concentration range in aerosols obtained from field measured
	Pseudo-nitzschia (phytoplankton)	No reports
	Pseudo-nitzschia australis
	Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries
	Algae
	Dinoflagellate Protoperidinium crassipes57	No reports
	Azadinium spinosum
	M. aeruginosa, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (freshwater cyanobacteria)58	50 ± 20 ng m−3 (ref. 59)
	Anabaena, Microcystis, Planktothrix, Nostoc, Oscillatoria, and Aphanizomenon	0.61 ± 0.75 ppb (ref. 60)
	Karenia brevis (marine dinoflagellates)61	0.2–24 ng m−3 (ref. 62)
	Karenia brevis (dinoflagellates)	No reports
	Gambierdiscus toxicus (dinoflagellates) and Ostreopsis siamensis (diatoms)63	No reports
	Gambierdiscus (dinoflagellates)64	No reports
	Ostreopsis 65–67	Detected in aerosols68,69