Freshwater amphipods (Gammarus pulex/fossarum) and brown trout as bioindicators for PFC contamination with regard to the aquatic ecological status of a small stream

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 5 Results of the metrics for the module “general degradation”

	Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4
Fauna index	Bad	Poor	Poor	Poor
Hyporhithral colonizers	Poor	Poor	Poor	Poor
Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera	Bad	Poor	Poor	Poor
Rheo index	Bad	Moderate	Moderate	Poor
Overall result Score (0–1)	Bad 0.17	Poor 0.32	Poor 0.31	Poor 0.30