By linking this water quality
improvement with downscaled SST predictions for a range of
future global warming (IPCC) scenarios (Done et al., 2003; Wooldridge
et al., 2005) it is thus possible to calculate the exceedence
probability of the (now dynamic) bleaching thresholds on the
GBR. In this way, the synergistic interaction between ‘local’ (viz.
water quality improvement) and ‘global’ (viz. CO2 reduction) management
strategies can be investigated for their accumulated benefit
in reducing the future likelihood of catastrophic bleaching
impacts.