Indicator Fact Sheet

Fragmentation of ecosystems and habitats

Indicator Fact Sheet

Prod-ID: IND-227-en

Also known as: TERM 006

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Topics: Transport

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Assessment made on 01 Jan 2001

Generic metadata

Classification

Topics:

Transport

DPSIR: State

Identification

Indicator codes

TERM 006

Contents

Policy issue: Preserve biodiversity and ensure connectivity between nature areas

Figures

Average size of non-fregmented land parcels, 1997

Key assessment

The expansion of transport infrastructure networks is fragmenting and isolating habitats and creating barriers to wandering and spreading of animals and animal populations. The average size of nature conservation areas is decreasing and the average distance between areas of the same type or function is increasing. Nature's infrastructures conflict more and more with human infrastructures.