I'm conducting an analysis of land cover change using landscape metric, where land cover type is classified into 4 main categories - patch, edge, perforated,and core - based on a specified edge width. I have multitemporal imagery (1986, 1992, 2000) in which I'm analyzing these landscape metrics for a community which is a part of a larger municipality. My question is if anyone knows of statistics for comparing a part to a whole (particularly in the context of landscape ecology), i.e. is landscape fragmentation in a community different than the larger municipality of which it is a part, and also statistics for comparing change over time between those two spatial units.
