The software package FRAGSTATS raster version 3.3 [McGarigal et al., 2002] has been
used to calculate the selected landscape metrics with the patch neighbour 8-cell rule
option both at landscape and at class level. The results of metric analysis are dependent
upon the input spatial resolution; in this study, the pixel size of 30 m has been chosen.
After Cushman et al. [2008], the following landscape metrics have been selected:
Contagion (CONTAG); LPI (Largest Patch Index) index for large patch dominance