Table 3.

Temporal forest fragmentation (area in km²). Change percentage represented by ‘a’ means the highly inflated figure due to very small denominator. 

Fragmentation class	1930	1975	2000	2020	Change 1930–1975	% Change (1930–1975)	Change 1975–2000	% Change (1975–2000)	Change 2000–2020	% Change (2000–2020)	Change 1930–2020	% Change (1930–2020)	% Change (1975–2020)
Patch	0.16	157.11	165.69	210.85	156.95	a	8.58	5.46	45.16	27.26	210.7	a	34.21
Edge	1086.55	2825.61	2910.84	3279.62	1739.06	160.05	85.23	3.02	368.78	12.67	2193.07	201.84	16.07
Perforated	0.67	1876.53	1430.23	1693.21	1875.86	a	− 446.3	− 23.78	262.97	18.39	1692.54	a	− 9.77
Core1	42.18	422.32	474.32	509.25	380.14	901.23	52	12.31	34.93	7.36	467.07	1107.33	20.58
Core2	49.34	157.51	182.84	207.65	108.17	219.23	25.34	16.08	24.81	13.57	158.31	320.86	31.83
Core3	23,136.67	15,881.84	14,889.4	13,168.56	− 7254.83	− 31.36	− 992.44	− 6.25	− 1720.84	− 11.56	− 9968.11	− 43.08	− 17.08
Total	24,315.56	21,320.92	20,053.32	19,069.14	− 2994.64	− 12.32	− 1267.6	− 5.95	− 984.19	− 4.91	− 5246.42	− 21.58	− 10.56

^aThe estimate is not reliable as forest cover within these categories were very small in 1930.