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Spatial patterns are deeply linked to ecological processes and this relationship lies at the core of landscape ecology. In turn, landscape patterns are influenced by physical, biological and anthropogenic factors. The aim of this study was to explore how specific physical and biological factors, namely geo- and biodiversity features influence landscape patterns. The focus was on microscale relationships and we chose as our focus area a small scale study site covering 3091 ha characterized by vegetation mosaics with multiple patterns. We considered geology, soil and altitude (for geodiversity) and land cover classes (for biodiversity) as superposed layers and we aggregated their elements into a new combined mosaic. Several landscape metrics related to patterns such as landscape fragmentation, connectivity of habitats and ecotone properties were computed at the class level for the new mosaic and were used in …