Fig. 3From: Changes in forest landscape patterns resulting from recent afforestation in Europe (1990–2012): defragmentation of pre-existing forest versus new patch proliferationAssociation of forest increase between 1990 and 2012 with the increase in forest largest patch size (a), forest effective mesh size (b), forest total edge (c) and the number of forest patches (d) in the study landscapes, for two ranges of forest cover percentage (a, b, c, d) and cropland cover (e)Back to article page