Landscape Fragmentation Tool
University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research
Features
- Analyzes types of fragmentation present in a land cover feature of interest
- Quantifies the amount of each fragmentation category that can be related to the potential impacts of fragmentation on habitats
- Creates value added data layers for fragmentation present in the geography of interest
Overview
The Landscape Fragmentation Tool maps four types of fragmentation present for a specified land cover (i.e. forest). These value-added map layers can be used to quantify and assess the amount of fragmentation present in a landscape and evaluate potential habitat impacts. “Core” regions are solid nondegraded areas of specified land cover, “edge” and “perforated” occur along the periphery of core areas, and “patch” regions make up small fragments that are completely isolated from core areas. Additionally, the core regions are split into three size classes.