Table 1. Presence BRI assessment categories, assessment thresholds, and percentage of samples in agreement with abundance BRI assessment category in the 493 sample calibration data.
Assessment Category | BRI-P | Samples | Samples in same BRI category | |
n | % | |||
Reference | ≤24 | 304 | 298 | 98.0 |
Marginal | >24 to ≤32 | 114 | 92 | 80.7 |
Diversity Loss | >32 to ≤40.7 | 34 | 31 | 91.2 |
Community Function Loss | >40.7 to ≤65.3 | 32 | 25 | 78.1 |
Defaunation | ≥ 65.3 | 9 | 7 | 77.8 |
Total | 493 | 453 | 91.9 |