Fragmentation increase in Europe during 2009-2015

Methodology

Fragmentation as a result of urban and transport infrastructure expansion is monitored using the Copernicus Imperviousness and the TeleAtlas road network datasets.

Units

Percentage (of 2009 values)

Additional information

The map presents fragmentation increase after outliers have been removed (less than 5 percentile and more than 90 percentile). Fragmentation was calculated for the years 2009, 2012 and 2015 using the effective mesh size method.

The map covers the EEA-39 member countries. Due to poor data coverage of fragmentation geometries for this period the following countries have been omitted: Cyprus, Iceland, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey.