Spatial attributes of spatial processes
Each spatial process has its own distinctive spatial
attributes.
- Perforation, dissection and
fragmentation can affect a whole area or just a patch within it, while
shrinkage and attrition apply just to individual patches or corridors.
- Patch number or density of
patches can increase with dissection and fragmentation whereas this
decreases with attrition.
- Average patch size decreases
in cases of perforation, dissection, fragmentation and shrinkage, and
increases where attrition takes place because small patches are likely
to disappear.
- Connectivity usually decreases
with dissection and fragmentation.
- Boundary length between original and new land
types increase in cases of perforation, dissection and fragmentation
and decrease with shrinkage and attrition.
