Salt marsh ecosystem condition account (38100162)
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Non-natural land includes built-up areas and managed agricultural land in a 5 km buffer around salt marsh. Only Canadian territory was included in the calculation. Land up to 60 degrees north was classified using AAFC 2020 and 2015 Semi -Decadal Land Use
and north of 60 degrees using NRCan, CCMEO, 2020 , Ed. 2.0, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), North American Land Change Monitoring System.
Road density is calculated as total road length over total Canadian land area within 5 km of a salt marsh.
A salt marsh patch is an area of continuous salt marsh.
Distance between salt marsh patches is measured as the smallest distance between a salt marsh patch and its next closest salt marsh patch.
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