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Fig. 1: Fucoid literature compared to other marine foundation species and the global distribution of fucoids. A. Search engine hits (1 Feb 2024) comparing fucoids to other coastal foundational taxa ‘alone’ (A) and with “AND conservation” (B). Global distribution of fucoids in GBIF (C, 637,617 georeferenced records, February 28, 2024). Land records may represent locations of stored specimens whereas coastal absences partly reflect lack of reporting (e.g., fucoids do occur along coastlines in Namibia, Angola, northern Chile, and southern Peru). Open water observations could be rafting of buoyant drift aggregations likeSargassaum fluitans/natans in the Atlantic or Durvillaeaantarctica in the Southern Ocean. True absences may occur around Antarctica and perhaps the most northern Russia, Greenland and Canada.