Sentence examples for mean patch area from inspiring English sources
Using mean patch area and patch shape index, we measured the acoustic fragmentation of habitats.
Habitat variables assessed included road-related variables (e.g., traffic volume) and land cover characteristics (e.g., mean patch area of the landscape).
Breakpoints, considered to be thresholds, in mean patch area were identified in our data when DSH percentage cover was < 63% and GDWH, > 77%.
Major cover changes in the watershed included increases in urban (+1743.0 ha) and dense forest cover (+618.9 ha), coupled with a decline in the total area (−2773.4 ha) and mean patch area (−4.9 ha) of crops.
Increased patch number and decreased mean patch area indicated that the most significant characteristic of land use/cover change in the Lake Kusumigaura Basin is the fragmentation of the landscape.
The results show that the surface approach to estimate changes of class area (CA), mean patch area (MPA), and mean Euclidean Near-Neighbor distance (MENN) may obtain more accurate results for quantifying vegetation change in steep mountain areas.
Eight landscape metrics were used to analyze the spatial and temporal changes of landscape patterns of peri-urbanization in Taipei–Taoyuan area: total urban area, number of urban patches, mean urban patch area, largest patch index, area-weighted mean shape index, area-weighted mean patch fractal dimension index, edge density of urban area, and contagion index.
Mean forest patch area increased (+3.7 ha), while patch number declined by 21.1% as reforestation linked small, previously isolated patches.
The number of forest patches tripled between 1973 and 2000 and the mean forest patch area decreased almost 80% over the same time period.
The mean core patch area of study area reduced from134.47 hm2 in 1994 to 127.67 hm2 in 2006, which indicated that the landscape core area was decreasing.
The majority of large wildfires occur in coniferous forests characterized by high forest cover (greater than 45%), few forest patches, large mean forest patch area, and fragmentation-limited forest.
