“…Tischendorf, 2001;Tscharntke et al, 2002;Dauber et al, 2003) and its key role in the assessment of landscape quality, especially biodiversity and visual quality, has been pointed out in many studies (Kuiper, 1998;Hokit et al, 1999;Weinstoerffer and Girardin, 2000;Bock et al, 2005;Dramstad et al, 2006). In recent decades, landscape structure has very often been a topic of scientific research, which yielded a large amount of papers (Kuttner et al, 2013). Many indices were proposed for the analysis of landscape structure to capture landscape patterns in relation to their function (Forman and Godron, 1986).…”