Nature Climate Change 3, 961–968 (2013); published online 29 October 2013; corrected after print 15 June 2016

In the version of this Review Article originally published, a calculation error resulted in the underestimation of the global primary production of vegetated coastal habitats reported in Table 1. The citations in this table have been revised and the corrected table is shown below. In addition, reference 101 has been replaced: Charpy-Robaud, C. & Sournia, A. The comparative estimation of phytoplanktonic microphytobenthic and macrophytobenthic primary production in the oceans. Mar. Microb. Food Webs 4, 31–57 (1990). These errors have been corrected in the online version of this Review Article.

Table 1 Extension, production and losses of vegetated coastal ecosystems.