Indicator: Share of agricultural area under landscape features
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Definition: Percentage of agricultural area, by Member State and at EU27 level, covered by landscape features. This indicator considers as landscape features small non-productive elements within agricultural landscapes, providing support for biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services. This definition includes several non-productive elements of European agricultural landscapes, such as hedges, ponds, ditches, trees in line or in-group or isolated, field margins, terraces, dry-stone or earth walls, springs or historic canal networks.
Definition describing what the indicator measures

Unit: % of landscape features in agricultural area
Measurement unit of the indicator values

Spatial coverage: EU (current composition, only continental areas)
Geographic area covered by the indicator

Temporal coverage: 2022-2022
Time coverage of the indicator from first to most recent available year

Update frequency: Every 3+ years
Frequency at which indicator is updated

DPSIR: Impact
DPSIR classification framework: Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, or Response

Method: 1) Processing of the Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) landscape features (LF) module comprising 92,382 unique point IDs, each with 41 sub-points that made up the LF quadrat for that point ID, for a total of 3,787,662 records of LF types, or their lack, across the EU; 2) estimation of the proportion of LF to agricultural land based on LUCAS core and sampling stratification layers. The detailed methodology can be found in: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135966. References about LUCAS LF is available in the specific dataset's section of this catalogue.
Description of the main methodological steps used to calculate the indicator

Reference: D'Andrimont, R., Skoien, J., Koble, R., Yordanov, M. and Terres, J., EU Landscape Feature indicator fact sheet, European Commission, 2023, JRC136069, https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC136069
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Producer: Joint Research Centre
Institution which produces the calculation of the indicator values

Provider: Joint Research Centre
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Open source: False
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Spatial scope (Member States): True
Whether the indicator is available at Member States level

Spatial scope (EU27): True
Whether the indicator is available at EU27 aggregated level

Spatial scope (global): False
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Accuracy uncertainties: None
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Storage: None
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Copyright/Licence of use: None
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