Fig. 2: Global distribution of marine bivalves and their exploited species.
From: Diversity, distribution and intrinsic extinction vulnerability of exploited marine bivalves
The geographic distribution of exploited bivalve species (b) mirrors the richness distribution of shallow-marine bivalve species today (c), but does not coincide with (a) the distribution of exploited species in FAO data, or the proportion of exploited species in a 50 × 50 km grid cell. The distributions of exploited species encompasses their natural ranges but do not necessarily reflect where they have been exploited by humans. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
