How Best to "Weatherproof" Earth's Corals Against Warming-
Induced Bleaching Wooldridge, S.A. and Done, T.J. 2009. Improved
water quality can ameliorate effects of climate change on
corals. Ecological Applications 19: 1492-1499. In a study that
addresses such concerns, Wooldridge (2009a) developed an
hypothesis that suggests that reduced dissolved inorganic
nitrogen (DIN) content in seawater surrounding reefs could
"directly benefit corals by enhancing their resistance to heat
stress, i.e., raising the temperature thresholds that trigger
bleaching," while Wooldridge and Done (2009) investigated the
implications of this suggestion "at the scale of sea-scapes and
regions on [Australia's] Great Barrier Reef [GBR]," where they
say "the coastal waters are highly 'DIN enriched' as a
consequence of a century and a half of European settlement of
north Queensland." More specifically, they say they "used a
spatially explicit Bayesian belief network (BBN) model (Pearl
1988; Woldridge and Done, 2004) to investigate the be