A landscape analysis of land cover change in the Municipality of Rome (Italy): Spatio-temporal characteristics and ecological implications of land cover transitions from 1954 to 2001

▶ Landscape analysis of land cover change in important case study. ▶ High relative stability of landscape composition. ▶ Urbanisation is by far the most important negative change process. ▶ Positive ecological implications of woodlands and agriculture persistence. ▶ Reference layer for stratification of hotspots of change.