Multitemporal Incidence of Landscape Fragmentation in a Protected Area of Central Andean Ecuador

Monitoring land cover changes in protected areas is crucial to control the conservation efficiency of biodiversity and natural ecosystem conditions, especially Ecuador, one most megadiverse countries world. Therefore, purpose present study has been estimate spatiotemporal landscape level fragmentation using remote sensing Llanganates National Park (PNL), a area central Andean Ecuador. To obtain cover, satellite images were processed Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) algorithm. After statistical analysis, it was encountered that there no significant difference change between years 1991 2016 nor among three watersheds, while PNL low. Land are not evident, as where ecosystems usually expected maintain their initial conditions over time. with these results concluded processes effective.