bmwp_p_ind {metrix}

BMWP prime index

Description

Calculate Biological Monitoring Working Party (BMWP) prime index.

Usage

bmwp_p_ind(dataset, store = FALSE, dec_c = ".", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

dataset

A data.frame obtained from read_data.

store

A logical value indicating if the user want to store the results in a file.

dec_c

A character used for decimal separator on results file.

verbose

A logical value indicating if progress messages should be given.

Details

The BMWP’ is an adaptation of the BMWP (Armitage et al. 1983) created to evaluate the biological quality of the Iberian Peninsula. Most of the macroinvertebrate families living in the Iberian Peninsula have been added to the original index and some of the scores have been changed (Alba Tercedor & Sánchez Ortega 1988).

Value

This function returns a list with the following components:

Ibmwp_p_n

The numerical BMWP’ index (Alba Tercedor and Sánchez Ortega 1988).

Ibmwp_p_c

The BMWP’ index water quality classes (Alba Tercedor and Sánchez Ortega 1988).

Author(s)

Juan Manuel Cabrera and Julieta Capeletti.

References

Armitage PD, Moss D, Wright JF & Furse MT (1983). The performance of a new biological water quality score system based on macroinvertebrates over a wide range of unpolluted running-water sites. doi: 10.1016/0043-1354(83)90188-4

Alba-Tercedor J & Sánchez-Ortega A (1988). A simple and quick method to evaluate biological quality of running freshwater based on Hellawell (1978). https://www.limnetica.com/documentos/limnetica/limnetica-4-1-p-51.pdf

See Also

read_data, bmwp_ind, bmwp_p_p_ind, biotic_ind

Examples

#Load example data
example_data

#Run bmwp_p_ind with that example_data
bmwpp<-bmwp_p_ind(example_data)

#Check results
bmwpp$Ibmwp_p_n
bmwpp$Ibmwp_p_c