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data available on human impact or hemeroby to correlate with, application of sim-
ple rules can be used for assessing trends in sustainability. Intensification of land
use generally leads to simpler geometry and configuration of landscape elements
(Forman 1995; Turner et al., 2001). A first indication is the deviation of landscape
metrics from the average, based on the Austrian “Concept of Relative Deviance”
(Peterseil et al., 2004) and currently applied on the presented European data.

Acknowledgements This study is part of the integrated project SENSOR ( http://sensor-ip.org )
financed via the 6th framework program of the European Commission. Our thanks are addressed
to Katharina Helming as the project leader and Marta Perez-Soba as the module coordinator.

Notes

1. BORF = Boreal Forest, CATM = Central Atlantic Mixed agricultural activities, CONF =

Continental Forest, CONH = Continental Heterogeneous agricultural areas, MEDA =

Mediterranean Arable land, MNTO = Mountains Open spaces, NATA = North Atlantic

Arable land, NATP = North Atlantic Pastures, NEMI = Nemoral Mixed agricultural activities,

Pannonian Arable.
2. Overlapping notches (confidence interval of the Median) reveal regions which are not
significantly different in this structure index.
3. Mean Patch Size in ha (MPS_ha), Mean Patch Edge (MPE), Mean Shape Index (MSI), Mean
Perimeter-Area-Ratio (MPAR) and Mean Fractal Dimension (MFRACT).
4. Below and above the confidence interval of the Median, and the confidence interval.

PANA =

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