Populates the TEIS fields, REALM, GROUP, CLASS, and KIND as well as SNOW_CODE from the data provided by the unique ecosystem data table. This is performed for each of the 3 components ("Deciles") and will create a variable for each of those component with the exception of the snow code.

merge_unique_ecosystem_fields(vri_bem, unique_ecosystem_dt)

Arguments

vri_bem

sf object representing VRI-BEM

unique_ecosystem_dt

data.table of the containing information for each unique ecosystems

Value

VRI-BEM with the following information from unique ecosystem data:

  • REALM

  • GROUP

  • KIND

  • SNOW_CODE

  • FORESTED

  • STS_CLIMAX

  • STAND