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The percentages use contiguous 10-m-cell clusters within each wetland class and are explicitly map-defined patches. DATASET_RESULT

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Source: Highly fragmented European wetlands with uneven restoration needs · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d6de3b1e46bbbc88ee353cae54d501fef8dfa5a763bcf8fed4cad8cf7d8b66d2

Calculating the patch-size distribution (contiguous clusters of 10-m cells within each 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.