Figure 7. Accretion potential of imperforate corals and predicted sea-level rise.
The projections of expected rates of coral-reef accretion relative to rates of dissolution of reefs composed of mainly imperforate corals, with 3 different densities of corals (low, medium and high modeled as 1, 4, and 10 kg CaCO3 m−2 y−1), along with projections of global sea-level rise (as in Fig. 6).