Supplementary material for online publication

Below are seven (7) maps showing in more detail the 14 wetlands studied in this paper.

Map 1: Wolmar wetland (WOL) in the west of the island. Its eco-unit is Marsh/Swamp. WOL is in the ‘moderately’ impacted wetland category with a Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.56 (ranked 5th, see Tables 2 and 3)

Map 2: Le Morne (MOR) and La Prairie Wetlands (LPA) in the southwest of the island. Their eco-units are Marine Coast (MOR) and Marsh/Swamp (LPA). Both MOR and LPA are in the ‘lowly’ impacted category with Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.4 and 0.3, respectively (ranked 3rd and 1st, respectively, see Table 3)

Map 3: Rivulet Terre Rouge Estuary Bird Sanctuary (RTREBS) in the northwest of the island. Its eco-unit is Estuarine. RTREBS is a Ramsar site and is in the ‘very highly’ impacted category with a Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.87 (ranked 14th, see Table 3)

Map 4: Grande Mare Longue (GML), Mare Phedre (MPD), Mare Camp Pave (MCP) in the north of the island. All three wetlands have eco-unit of Marsh/Swamp and all three are in the ‘highly’ impacted category with Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.69, 0.68 and 0.65, respectively (ranked 8th, 7th and 6th, respectively, see Table 3)

Map 5: Mare Grand Maree (MGM), Mare Pont Malette (MPM) and Mare Sarcelle (MSA) in the north and east of the island. MGM and MPM have eco-unit of Marsh/Swamp and are in the ‘very highly’ impacted category with Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.79 and 0.83, respectively (ranked 10th and 12th, respectively). Mare Sarcelle (MSA) has eco-unit Marsh/Swamp and is in the ‘lowly’ impacted category with a Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.34 (ranked 2nd, see Table 3)

Map 6: Mare du Puits (MPU) in the east of the island. MPU has eco-unit Marsh/Swamp and is in the ‘very highly’ impacted category with a Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.78 (ranked 9th, see Table 3)

Map 7: Mare Millet (MML), Mare Dodo (MDO) and Blue Bay Marine Park (BBMP) in the southeast of the island. MML and MDO have eco-unit Marsh/Swamp and are in the ‘very highly’ impacted category with Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.82 and 0.86, respectively (ranked 11th and 13th). The Blue Bay Marine Park (BBMP) is a Ramsar site and is in the ‘moderately’ impacted category with a Wetland Land Cover Indices (WLCI) of 0.55 (ranked 4th, see Table 3). The third Ramsar site, Point d’Esny Wetland, an eco-unit type Marine Coast, is also shown

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