Core forest fragmentation between 1990 and 2000

Methodology

Results aggregated at provincial units, NUTS level 2 or 3.

Ranges for levels of increase are: very high for above 100 % increase with respect to the total number of core forest patches in 1990; high for the range 50–100%; medium for the range 25–50 %; low for the range 5–25%; and very low for below 5%.

References:

Riitters, K. H.; Wickham, J. D. and Wade, T. G., 2009. 'An indicator of forest dynamics using a shifting landscape mosaic'. Ecological Indicators 9:107–117.

Soille, P. and Vogt, P. 2009. Morphological segmentation of binary patterns. Patterns Recognition Letters. doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2008.10.015.

Saura, S. and Torné, J., 2009. 'Conefor Sensinode 2.2: A software package for quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity'. Environmental Modelling & Software 2009 24:135–139.

Saura S.; Mouton, C. and Estreguil, C., 2009. European-wide maps of change in forest connectivity in 1990–2000. Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Internal publication Pubsy reference 51278

1) JRC; Estreguil and Mouton, 2009; European Forest Data Centre. (JRC EFDAC Map viewer at http://efdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/)

The data derive from Corine land cover (CLC) for the years 1990 and 2000 and, hence, have the same geographical coverage and forest definition as CLC; core forest from mathematical morphology-based software GUIDOS from Soille and Vogt, 2009, and GIS analysis. Results aggregated at provincial units, NUTS level 2 or 3. Ranges for levels of increase are: very high for above 100 % increase with respect to the total number of vore forest patches in 1990; high for 50-100 %; medium for 25-50 %; lov for 5-25 %; and very low for below 5 %.

2) Corine land cover (CLC1990) 100 m - version 9/2007

3) Corine land cover 2000 (CLC2000) 100 m - version 9/2007

4) NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) version 9 2007. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nuts/home_regions_en.html