Table 5 Global estimates of present-day coral reef area according to different authors.

From: New constraints on the postglacial shallow-water carbonate accumulation in the Great Barrier Reef

Global estimates of present-day coral-reef area

(× 103 km2)

Newell73

150–1500

Milliman74

1440

Smith28

617

De Vooys64

112

Copper65

1500

Kleypas58

584–746

Spalding and Grenfell16

255

Ryan et al.15

> 500

Spalding et al.56

284

Vecsei61

345

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