European forest morphology, mosaic and connectivity Corine Land Cover 1990-2000-2006

The forest morphology is measured with a set of 4 indicators derived from the Morphological Spatial Pattern Application (MSPA) of the GUIDOS software (Soille and Vogt, 2009) with a width of 1 pixel: Core, Edge, Linear, Islet. <br><br>The forest mosaic is measured with a set of 3 indicators based on the forest spatial pattern and the composition in terms of agriculture, artificial and natural/semi-natural surfaces in the immediate surroundings (3x3 pixels): core natural, mixed natural, some natural. <br><br>The forest connectivity is measured with the Root Probability of Connectivity (RPC) index that quantifies the landscape functional connectivity based on forest patch area, its spatial configuration, inter-patch distances, matrix permeability and specific dispersal capabilities of generic groups of forest-dwelling species. The assessment applies inter-patch Euclidian distances, assuming a homogeneous non-forested matrix, and 50% of dispersal probability at the 1 km distance for forest-dwelling species. RPC is dimensionless and ranges from 0 to 1. <br><br>The area and the proportion of the all sets of indicators are reported for the forest cover extracted from Corine Land Cover at 100 m years 1990-2000-2006 (version 15, 08/2011), and aggregated per landscape units of 25 km by 25 km, per provinces (NUTS 2/3) and per country (NUTS 0).<br>