Table 3.

Landscape metrices used in this study area following McGarigal et al. (2012) and Smiraglia et al. (2015)

Acronym	Metric	Description
PLAND	Percentage of landscape	Proportion of the landscape occupied by certain LULC class (0 < PLAND < 100)
NP	Number of patches	Number of patches in the landscape of the same LULC class (N ≥ 1)
LPI	Largest patch index	Percentage of the landscape comprised by the largest patch of the corresponding LULC class (0 < LPI < 100)
ED	Edge density	Total length of edge of a certain LULC class per unit area (m/ha). ED ≥ 0, and 0 when there is edge in the landscape
AREA_MN	Mean patch size	Mean area of patches of the same LULC class (m2)
SHAPE_AM	Area‐weighted mean shape index	It measures the complexity of patch shape of a particular LULC class compared to a standard shape (square), by weighting patches according to their size. It equals 1 when all patches are square and increase with complexity of patch shapes.
ENN_MN	Mean Euclidean nearest neighbor distance	Mean of minimum edge‐to‐edge distances to the nearest neighboring patch of the same type of a certain LULC class (m)
IJI	Interspersion and juxtaposition index	Measure of evenness of patch adjacencies equals 100 for even and approaches 0 for uneven adjacencies
AI	Aggregation index	Percentage of neighboring pixel of the same LULC class, based on single‐count method