diathor

Calculates ecological information and biotic indices for diatoms in a sample. It includes number/shape of chloroplasts diversity indices, size classes, ecological guilds, and multiple biotic indices. It outputs both a dataframe with all the results and plots of all the obtained data in a defined output folder. Sample data was taken from Nicolosi Gelis, Cochero & Gómez (2020, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105951). The package uses the 'Diat.Barcode' database to calculate morphological and ecological information by Rimet & Couchez (2012, doi:10.1051/kmae/2012018), and the combined classification of guilds and size classes established by B-Béres et al. (2017, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.007). Current diatom-based biotic indices include the DES index by Descy (1979, ), the EPID index by Dell'Uomo (1996, ISBN: 3950009002), the IDAP index by Prygiel & Coste (1993, doi:10.1007/BF00028033), the ID-CH index by Hürlimann & Niederhauser (2007, ), the IDP index by Gómez & Licursi (2001, doi:10.1023/A:1011415209445), the ILM index by Leclercq & Maquet (1987, ), the IPS index by Coste (1982, ), the LOBO index by Lobo, Callegaro, & Bender (2002, ISBN:9788585869908), the SLA by Sládeček (1986, doi:10.1002/aheh.19860140519), the TDI index by Kelly, & Whitton (1995, doi:10.1007/BF00003802), the SPEAR(herbicide) index by Wood, Mitrovic, Lim, Warne, Dunlop, & Kefford (2019, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.12.035), the PBIDW index by Castro-Roa & Pinilla-Agudelo (2014), and the DISP index by Stenger-Kovácsa et al. (2018).