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Forest fragmentation classes in the EU Member States

29 Sep 2023

Net land take by land cover and country, 2012-2018, EEA-38 (in % of the total FUA surface in the country)

23 Mar 2023

Net land take in cities and commuting zones by land cover category, 2012-2018, EU-27

23 Mar 2023

Landscape fragmentation in Functional Urban Areas, 2018

25 Mar 2022

Landscape fragmentation is the physical disintegration of continuous ecosystems into smaller units, which is most often caused by urban or transport network expansion. Breaking structural connections between habitats results in decreased resilience of habitats and a decrease in their ability to provide various ecosystem services and support biodiversity. This dashboard enables the exploration of landscape fragmentation in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Europe for the year 2018.

Land take in protected areas of Functional Urban Areas, 2012-2018

25 Mar 2022

Land take and the associated soil sealing causes less resilient ecosystems through landscape fragmentation and habitats destruction, soil sealing, decreased carbon sequestration and impaired flood protection. These processes are one of the major drivers of land degradation. Restoring wetlands, peatlands, coastal ecosystems, forests, grasslands and agricultural soils are essential for avoiding biodiversity decline and for climate change adaptation. This dashboard presents an overview of land take processes in protected areas of Functional Urban Areas in EEA and EU member states for the years 2012-2018. The amount of land take was derived from the Urban Atlas datasets of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.