For the evaluation of effectiveness of the method, the correlations between individual metrics and final HeLM values and common pressure indicators, such as total phosphorus, chlorophyll a and Secchi depth, were tested and found highly significant and relatively strong.
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HeLM: a macrophyte-based method for monitoring and assessment of Greek lakes.
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In all three cases, a clear trend was observed of elodeid-dominated macrophytic communities at high ecological status lakes being replaced by helophyte-dominated macrophytic communities at lakes of lower ecological status classes.