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Table 1 Examples for the verbal description of the air quality index (LGI)

From: Long-term monitoring of environmental change in German towns through the use of lichens as biological indicators: comparison between the surveys of 1970, 1980, 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2010 in Wetzlar and Giessen

Air quality index

Verbal description

LGI 5.1

Very high air quality and very little influence of hypertrophicating substances

LGI 4.2 (unit area ‘X’; Figure3)

High air quality and low influence of hypertrophicating substances

LGI 1.5

Very low air quality and very strong influence of hypertrophicating substances

LGI 1.1

Very low air quality and very low influence of hypertrophicating substances