Evidence item

Deeply drained former wetlands were outside the Article 4 mapping scope. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Highly fragmented European wetlands with uneven restoration needs · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:94eca78bdd22a7ac82cb579fc7619440af5957ef7ce3a77f3701fdb3870e08da

These deeply drained former wetlands (no sustained saturation or hydrophytic vegetation) are therefore outside our scope here to avoid double counting with Article 4, which targets natural and seminatural wetlands.