icbrio_ind {metrix}

ICBrio index

Description

Calculate ICBrio index

Usage

icbrio_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

ICBrio was created to monitor the quality of inland waters in the state of São Paulo. It is a multimetric index that includes different metrics: richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H’), Sequential Comparison index (ICS), Tanytarsini/Chironomidae ratio, richness of sensitive taxa and dominance of tolerant groups. Only one of the diversity indices (H’ or ICS) is considered to calculate it (in this case, the function H’ from 'vegan' package). The final value, which generates the diagnosis or classification of habitat quality, combines the arithmetic mean of the value obtained with the sum of the points of each metric.

Value

This function returns a list with the following components:

Icbrio_n

The numerical ICBrio index (Kuhlmann et al. 2012).

Icbrio_c

The ICBrio water quality class (Kuhlmann et al. 2012).

Author(s)

Juan Manuel Cabrera and Julieta Capeletti.

References

Kuhlmann M, Imbimbo HV, Ogura LL (2012). Protocolo para o biomonitoramento com as comunidades bentônicas de rios e reservatórios do estado de São Paulo. https://cetesb.sp.gov.br/aguas-interiores/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/protocolo-biomonitoramento-2012.pdf

See Also

read_data, biotic_ind

Examples

#Load example data
example_data

#Run icbrio_ind with that example_data
icb<-icbrio_ind(example_data)

#Check results
icb$Icbrio_n
icb$Icbrio_c