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Landscape fragmentation: average size of an unfragmented area, in km². The following factors contributing to fragmentation are included: motorways, roads (classes 1-4), tracks, settlements, rivers, lakes and mountains (regions over 2100 m altitude).
Source: FOEN, LABES. Transformation of the countryside: Arealstatistik.
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Growth of the population and the density of population 1980-2009
Urbanisation by country 1950-2010
Transformation of the swiss countryside 1970-2009