Landscape fragmentation status and trends, 2009-2015: affected lands

Data Visualization Created 18 Nov 2019 Published 28 Jan 2020 Last modified 28 Jan 2020

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Number of fragmented landscape elements
Strongly fragmented landscape
Relative change in number of meshes
Change in strongly fragmented area
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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.

An important consequence of landscape fragmentation is the increased isolation of ecosystem patches that breaks the structural connections and decreases resilience and ability of habitats to provide various ecosystem services. Fragmentation also influences human communities, agriculture, recreation and overall quality of life. Monitoring how fragmentation decreases landscape quality and changes the visual perception of landscapes provides information for policy measures that aim at improving ecosystem condition and restoration as well as maintaining the attractiveness of landscapes for recreational activities.

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EEA28 coverge is wihtout Romania due to poos TEelAtlas data coverage in 2009.
EEA39 coverage excludes Cyprus, Iceland, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Cyprus, R. Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey due to poor data coverage of fragmentation geometries in 2009.

Units:
seff, km2 and %

Data sources

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - High Resolution Layers - Imperviousness provided by European Environment Agency (EEA)

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Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - High Resolution Layers - Imperviousness The high resolution imperviousness products capture the percentage and change of soil sealing. Built-up areas are characterized by the substitution of the original (semi-) natural land cover or water surface with an artificial, often impervious cover. These artificial surfaces are usually maintained over long periods of time. A series of high resolution imperviousness datasets (for the 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 reference years) with all artificially sealed areas was produced using automatic derivation based on calibrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This series of imperviousness layers constitutes the main status layers. They are per-pixel estimates of impermeable cover of soil (soil sealing) and are mapped as the degree of imperviousness (0-100%). Imperviousness change layers were produced as a difference between the reference years (2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and additionally 2006-2012, to fully match the CORINE Land Cover production cycle) and are presented 1) as degree of imperviousness change (-100% -- +100%), in 20m and 100m pixel size, and 2) a classified (categorical) 20m change product.

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Lands affected by fragmentation during 2009-2015 in the European Union

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Geographic coverage

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

Temporal coverage

2009-2015

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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/landscape-fragmentation-status-and-trend-5 or scan the QR code.

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