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Three criteria for determining the matrix

There are three criteria used to determine the matrix. These are:

• the relative area (the landscape element covering more than 50% of the area is likely to be the matrix)
  
  
• the degree of connectivity
  
  
• identification of the element that exerts the most control over landscape dynamics
  

(Forman and Godron, 1986)

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