Table 1

Table 1. Forest area and percentage of forest area in different fragmentation categories, by continent. The percentages in the table also appear in pie charts in Figs. 9–13.

Continent	Forest area^a (10³ km²)	Percentage of continent forest area in fragmentation category
Continent	Forest area^a (10³ km²)	Interior	Undetermined	Perforated	Edge	Transitional	Patch
Africa	2732	28.7	1.9	31.8	13.9	11.1	12.7
Australia–Pacific	2135	27.1	2.2	35.1	16.1	10.9	8.7
Europe–Asia	9551	32.0	2.1	34.1	14.1	9.0	8.7
North America	8565	44.9	2.3	28.5	14.0	5.6	4.7
South America	6940	33.0	2.0	39.6	11.6	7.4	6.5

^a Areas, measured in thousands of square kilometers, are from the IGBP continental land-cover maps, excluding savanna and woody savanna forest types.