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. 2014 May 13;5:3794. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4794

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Percent reduction of both wave energy (n=21) and wave height (n=21) is reported as a function of coral reef flat width. Only experiments for which reef flat width was available were used. Each point is the percent wave attenuation for each experiment with trend lines (wave energy reduction: y=86.2 × [1−e^(−x/210.2)]; and wave height reduction: y=62.2 × [1−e^(−x/213.3)]).