Unit: NVC Unit table as a data.frame

In jacob-ogre/USNVC: Package for the United States National Vegetation Classification

Description

The U.S. National Vegetation Classification (NVC) is provided as a series of tables at http://usnvc.org/explore-classification/.

Usage

Unit

Format

A tibble with 8192 rows and 14 columns.

ELEMENT_GLOBAL_ID

The unique identifier of the NVC category

PARENT_ID

The identifier of the parent of the NVC category

D_CLASSIFICATION_LEVEL_ID

A factor corresponding to the level of the hierarchy

elementUID

ELEMENT_GLOBAL_ID prefixed with '2.', presumably to identify it as deriving from version 2 of the standard

classificationCode

An alpha-numeric sequence indicating the placement of the category in the NVC hierarchy

databaseCode

An identifier for creating an SQL database

Status

Whether the category has been accepted into the NVC

colloquialName

A 'common' name for the category, if available

scientificName

A name for the category, which may include scientific names of characteristic taxa

formattedScientificName

'scientificName' with HTML formatting

translatedName

'scientificName' with common name substitution

hierarchyLevel

Name of the level of the hierarchy

unitSort

An alpha-numeric code indicating the placement of the category in the NVC; different from 'classificationCode'

USstatus

A code ???

Source

https://www1.usgs.gov/csas/nvcs_data/USNVCFullDownload.zip

jacob-ogre/USNVC documentation built on May 18, 2019, 8 a.m.