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Landscape fragmentation status and trends, 2009-2015: country comparison
Chart (static)
Note:
Fragmentation as a result of urban and transport infrastructure expansion is monitored using the Copernicus imperviousness and the TeleAtlas road network data sets.
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Data sources
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More info
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - High Resolution Layers - Imperviousness, European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Multinet street map (Dataset URL is not available), American Digital Cartography Inc (ADCi)
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
2009-2015
Coverage:
EEA39, without Cyprus, Iceland, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey due to poor data coverage of fragmentation geometries for this period
Methodology:
The Effective Mesh Density (seff) is a measure of the degree to which movement between different parts of the landscape is interrupted by a Fragmentation Geometry (FG). FGs are defined as the presence of impervious surfaces and traffic infrastructure, focusing only on major roads. The more FGs fragment the landscape, the higher the effective mesh density hence the higher the fragmentation. The geographic coverage of the dataset is EEA39.
Unit:
seff, km2 and %