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Moreover, in heavy urbanization areas, more attention should be paid to increasing forest patch aggregation and contiguity, and both tree diversity and evenness could be increased by enhancing the FRAC-MN index.

This pattern is explained by the different behaviour of structural canopy properties, since leaf area index and canopy cover showed a steeper increase with increasing forest patch size in Fagus forests than in Pinus ones.

The first axis represented a landscape gradient from agricultural to woodland, with increasing forest patch size and edge habitat and decreasing degree of fragmentation.

Our results indicate that the impacts of the mountain pine beetle infestation on forest spatial pattern consist of an increase in the number of patches, an increase in forest patch shape complexity, a reduction in forest patch size, an increase in forest patch isolation, and a decrease in interspersion.

A decreasing amount of damage was recorded with increasing distance from the forest patch (Table  1).

When the three main pollinators were analysed separately, the abundances of A. dorsata and T. iridipennis decreased with increasing distance from a neighbouring forest patch but this distance effect was reduced with an increase in size of the nearby forest.

In addition, the mean forest patch length increased from 35 to 118 m long.

Mean forest patch area increased (+3.7 ha), while patch number declined by 21.1% as reforestation linked small, previously isolated patches.

Forest patch size increases with the average patch size of discontinuous dense urban fabric.

Forest patch size increases from western to eastern Europe, with more regular patch shapes in central and eastern regions and less regular shapes in the rest of Europe.

Probability of resting decreased with increasing distance from indigenous forest patches and roads.