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Table 3

Spearman correlations (rs) between several biological metrics and biocontamination indices. Biocontamination indices: ACI − Abundance Contamination Index, RCI-f − Richness Contamination Index at family level, SBCI − site-specific biocontamination index (significant correlation p < 0.05 are shown bold).

  ACI RCI-f SBCI-f
Number of Taxa −0.187 0.364 −0.268
Number of Families −0.082 0.408 −0.156
HR-SI 0.193 0.385 0.231
BMWP −0.252 0.546 0.303
IBE AQEM −0.232 0.564 0.315
EPT (%) 0.295 0.685 0.393
EPT-Taxa 0.293 0.674 0.388
Saprobity module −0.231 0.518 0.305

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