Fig 1.
Priority areas for REDD+ in Ecuador.
Source: MAATE, 2016a.
Fig 2.
Flowchart of the stages for processing spatial data.
Table 1.
Landscape metrics used the Fragstat program.
Fig 3.
Forest Area Density calculation on a 10x10 pixel map with a 3x3 pixel window.
Adapted from: (Vogt Peter, 2016).
Fig 4.
Summary of fragmentation class ranks according to FAD result per pixel.
Adapted from (Vogt Peter, 2016).
Fig 5.
Landscape metric Mean Patch Area (PA_MN) for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 6.
Landscape metric Number of patches (PN) for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 7.
Landscape metric Patch area density (PD) for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 8.
Landscape metric Largest Patch Index (LPI) for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 9.
Landscape metric Effective mesh size (MESH) for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Table 2.
Summary of contrasting outcomes from MAATE and MapBiomas Data (1990-2022).
Fig 10.
Nearest Mean Euclidean Distance (ENN_MN) landscape metric for the two CUS sources.
a) Data 1 MAATE and b) Data 2 MapBiomas.
Table 3.
Statistical comparison between two data sources with the Wilcoxon signed test (p-value) and the Pearson correlation coefficient (r).
Fig 11.
Multiscale fragmentation for 1990-2022 in priority area 1 – Northern Amazon of the REDD+ program with two data sources: Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 12.
Change in multiscale fragmentation from 1990 to 2022 for the Northern Amazon with two sources of information: Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 13.
Multiscale fragmentation between 1990-2022 for priority area 2 – Central Amazon of the REDD+ program with two data sources, Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 14.
Change in multiscale fragmentation between 1990 and 2022 for the Central Amazon with two information sources, Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 15.
Multiscale fragmentation between 1990-2022 in priority area 3 – Southern Amazon of the REDD+ program with two data sources, Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.
Fig 16.
Change in multiscale fragmentation between 1990 and 2022 for the Southern Amazon using two sources of information: Data 1 MAATE and Data 2 MapBiomas.