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Landscape fragmentation in FUAs in 2018 in the EU-27 and the UK region, by country and FUA structure

Figure Created 03 Mar 2022 Published 05 May 2022 Last modified 01 Apr 2022

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Fragmentation is measured as the density of continuous, i.e. unfragmented, semi-natural landscape elements (i.e. meshes). This is calculated by dividing the number of meshes with a unit area, e.g. 1 or 1 000 km². If the landscape is not fragmented, i.e. it consists of a completely continuous landscape, the mesh density is 1. If the number of natural and semi-natural landscape elements in a unit area increases, the landscape becomes more fragmented and the mesh density increases.