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===Global warming and coral bleaching===
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[[Image:Coral-reef-bioerosion.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|''Bioerosion'' (coral damage) such as this may be caused by [[coral bleaching]]. [http://www.biology.iastate.edu/intop/1Australia/Australia%20papers/Bioerosion.htm] ]]
Some people believe that the most significant threat to the status of the Great Barrier Reef and of the planet's other tropical reef [[ecosystem]]s is [[global warming]]. Many of the corals of the Great Barrier Reef are currently living at the upper edge of their temperature tolerance, as demonstrated in the [[coral bleaching]] events of the summers of [[1998]], [[2002]] and most recently [[2006]]. <ref>Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (unknown date). Coral Bleaching and Mass Bleaching Events [online]. Available: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/science/climate_change/coral_bleaching.html[Access date: 30 May 2006]</ref>
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