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Creates an empty tibble with the standardised column structure for environmental compartment data.

Usage

initialise_compartments_tibble()

Value

A tibble with 0 rows and standardised compartment columns

Details

Compartments define the environmental matrix and measurement context for sampling activities. The compartments table is not a direct output of the eData format but is used to construct the samples table. The tibble includes the following columns:

ENVIRON_COMPARTMENT: Broad environmental compartment (Aquatic, Atmospheric, Terrestrial, Biota)

ENVIRON_COMPARTMENT_SUB: Specific sub-category within the compartment

MEASURED_CATEGORY: Measurement context (External Media, Internal to Organism, Surface of Organism)

See vignette("compartments_data") for more information.