A team of researchers from the University of California, the NOAA/OAR Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the University of British Columbia has found via simulations that corals that replace poorly performing algae with more heat resistant varieties are more resistant to coral bleaching as oceans warm due to global warming. In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group describes the factors that went into the development of their simulations and what they showed over time.