Landscape Disruption in a Fragmented World: Global Patch Size Change Dataset (1992–2022)

This dataset contains continental-scale raster layers representing changes in landscape patch size between 1992 and 2022.

The dataset is associated with the following publication:

Rivas, C. A., Palacios-Rodríguez, G., and Navarro-Cerrillo, R. M.
Landscape disruption in a fragmented world: A critical global analysis.
Journal of Environmental Management (2026).

Each GeoTIFF raster represents the percentage change in landscape patch size between 1992 and 2022. The dataset is provided as 64-bit floating-point GeoTIFF files referenced to WGS84 (EPSG:4326).

Files included:

• Africa_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Americas_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Antarctica_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Asia_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Europe_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Oceania_PatchSizeChange_1992_2022.tif

• Symbology.lyrx

• README.txt

The exported GeoTIFF files were validated against the original raster datasets, with no differences detected between source and exported data.

Authors:
Carlos A. Rivas, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez, and Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo.

Corresponding author:
Carlos A. Rivas
ORCID: 0000-0003-4039-8634