Create empty variables for structure of forest

Generates a data of unique BGC label and habitat combinations for the Look up Table starting point

create_empty_forest_structure_variables(unique_ecosystem_dt)

Arguments

unique_ecosystem_dt

data.table of the containing information for each unique ecosystems

Value

data.table that contains the frequency of each unique ecosystem and generates the following empty column to be feed later on:

  • Forested (Y/N),

  • Strict_Climax,

  • Stand_Climax,

  • Stand_Age_0-15, Stand_Age_16-30, Stand_Age_31-50, Stand_Age_51-80, Stand_Age_80+,

  • Struct_Age_0-3, Struct_Age_4-10, Struct_Age_11-30, Struct_Age_31-40, Struct_Age_41-60, Struct_Age_61-80, Struct_Age_81-139, Struct_Age_140_249, Struct_Age_250+,

  • Snow_code