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Ta b l e 3 . 1 4 Comparability of Diatom Indices in the Assessment of River Water Quality.

Sites Descy (1979) CEE GDI IDAP IPS L&M SHE TDI SLAD Comments References

Rivers Alfeios and
Pineios in Greece

+ + + Indices gave exactly

similar quality
assessments (bad to very
good)

Iliopoulou-
Georgudaki
et al . (2003)

Rivers in Southern
Poland

+ + + + + + + + Most diatom indices

(except SLAD)
correlated with each
other and water quality

Kwandrans et al .
(1998)

English and Scottish
rivers

+ + + Good correlation between

indices

Kelly et al . (1995)

Finnish rivers + + + Good correlation between

indices: rivers ranging
from poor to high
quality

Eloranta and
Soininen (2002)

Metal-contaminated
Belgian rivers

+ + + + + + + Good correlation with Zn

concentrations, but only
IPS gave good
indication of general
water quality

De Jonge et al .
(2008)

Shaded area: OMNIDIA database software (Lecointe et al ., 1993) containing a range of diatom indices.
CEE (Descy and Coste, 1991), GDI (Coste and Ayphassorho, 1991), IDAP (Prygiel and Coste, 1996), IPS (Coste, in CEMAGREF, 1982), L & M (Leclercq and Maquet, 1987),
SHE (Schiefele and Schreiner, 1991), TDI (Kelly and Whitton, 1995), SLAD (Sladacek, 1986).