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The study estimates that 27–33% of European wetland area is in patches smaller than 25 hectares and 7–11% in patches smaller than 1 hectare. DATASET_RESULT

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Calculating the patch-size distribution (contiguous clusters of 10-m cells within a class) shows that European wetlands are fine-grained and highly fragmented, with an estimated 27–33% of wetland area occurring in map-defined patches <25 ha and 7–11% in patches <1 ha.