Assessing the degree of landscape fragmentation in Canada over the past 50-70 years

Assessing the degree of landscape fragmentation in Canada over the past 50-70 years, to be used as a pressure indicator

Highlights:

Since it is only after several decades that the extent of effects of fragmentation can be evaluated, a temporal analysis is key.
Anthropogenic change of the environment, such as linear fragmentation, is increasing in a number of areas around Canada, and so monitoring these changes will be necessary to inform conservation and land use policies.
Through this project, landscape fragmentation will be measured over 50 years using the effective mesh size method to observe the rate of change over the time frame.
Results will allow for the identification of fragmentation hotspots and may help predict future landscape fragmentation.