M-AMBI revisited: looking inside a widely-used benthic index

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• 作者：Marco Sigovini (1)
  Erica Keppel (1)
  Davide Tagliapietra (1)
  
• 关键词：Biotic index ; Diversity ; Macrozoobenthos ; Multimetric index ; Open source ; Water Framework Directive
• 刊名：Hydrobiologia
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：717
• 期：1
• 页码：41-50
• 全文大小：349KB
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• 作者单位：Marco Sigovini (1)
  Erica Keppel (1)
  Davide Tagliapietra (1)
  
  1. CNR鈥擭ational Research Council of Italy, ISMAR鈥擬arine Sciences Institute, Arsenale-Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F, 30122, Venice, Italy
  
• ISSN：1573-5117

文摘

M-AMBI is a multimetric index for assessing the ecological quality status of marine and transitional waters. It is based on benthic macroinvertebrates and integrates AMBI, a biotic index based on species sensitivity/tolerance, with diversity and richness, making it compliant with the European Water Framework Directive. The success of AMBI paved the way for the introduction of M-AMBI, which was subsequently incorporated into the regulations of several European countries. The M-AMBI algorithm integrates the metrics by means of factor analysis (FA). In this paper, we first reproduced the algorithm using the open source R software. This enabled us to point out that FA is not functional to M-AMBI, and its omission does not appreciably change the results. We then enhanced the applicability of the index, making it independent of the number of samples. In this way, M-AMBI is closely approximated by the simple mean of the normalised metrics with no need for multivariate techniques. Finally, we further simplified the approach, presenting a bivariate version that is still highly correlated with M-AMBI, in which the constitutive metrics are reduced to a diversity measure and a species sensitivity index. The properties of this bivariate version include simplicity, transparency, robustness, and openness.