Dictionary/Glossary

German-French-Italian-English dictionary of plant names and technical terms used in the NFI.

suchen

repeat survey

(Swiss) Plateau

(tree) species composition

accessible forest without shrub forest

accessible forest without shrub forest NFI3/NFI4

age, dominant (agedom)

altitudinal vegetation belt

ancient tree

area suitable for forest

area, wooded (woodland)

areal damage

Arolla pine

ash

ash (main tree species)

attribute, categorical

avalanche protection forest

bearberry (kinnikinnick)

beech

berry bushes

biocoenosis

biodiversity (syn.: biological diversity)

biomass

biotope

biotope value of a forest stand

boundary of forest edge

box

branch brushwood

branch wood

broad-leaved whitebeam

broadleaved (forest) area

broadleaved (forest) community

browsing intensity, critical

callipering threshold

change in forest area

change in growing stock

change in number of stems

cherry laurel

Chusan palm

citizens' community

classification variable

complete tree (syn.: whole tree)

confidence interval

conifer

coniferous forest

coniferous forest area

coniferous forest community

coppice with standards

Cornelian-cherry

corporation (ownership category)

cutting area (syn.: felling area, logging area)

damage (to the forest)

damage (to trees)

damage (to young forest plants)

damage caused by pasturing

degree of mixture (aerial photo)

degree of mixture (terrestrial)

degree of regeneration cover

density of forest edge

development stage

diameter at 7m height (d7; syn.: upper stem diameter)

diameter at breast height (dbh)

diameter class

dominant diameter at breast height (dbhdom)

dominant heigt (hdom; syn.: top height)

ecotone value of the forest edge

embankment (artificial) / slope (natural)

environmental monitoring

environmental policies

epicormic shoot (syn.: water sprout)

evaluation (data analyses)

false Virginia-creeper

fir (main tree species)

forest / nonforest decision

Forest Act

forest aisle

forest area

forest area, inaccessible

forest area, managed

forest area, pastured

forest area, permanently unstocked

forest area, temporarily unstocked

Forest Europe criterion

forest management plan

forest management, sustainable

forest owner

forest pasturing

forest planning

Forest Police Law (FPolL)

forest policy

forest site

forest soil

forest stand ("stand")

forest strip

forest tending

forest transport infrastructure

forest type

forest with pasturing

Geographic Information System (GIS)

groundwater protection zone

group selection system (syn.: femel system)

growing area

growing stock (syn.: wood stock)

growing stock per hectare

high forest, non-uniform

high forest, selection-type (syn.: high forest, plenter type)

high forest, uniform

higher altitude zone

hillslope debris flow

increment (gross increment)

larch (main tree species)

Line Intersect Sampling (LIS)

management, sustainable

manna ash

map survey

maple (main tree species)

mean diameter

mean-tree

means of extraction

measure, silvicultural

mediumwood

medlar

merchantable branch wood

merchantable stemwood

merchantable timber harvested

minimum width (for forest definition)

mountain selection forest (syn.: mountain plenter forest)

mountain-pine

moving average

municipality (syn.: political community)

National Forest Inventory

national inventory

natural characteristics

natural forest

natural hazards

natural regeneration (result)

naturalness of the proportion of conifers

nature conservation

nature conservation function

NFI2 protection forest (protection against natural hazards)

NFI3 protection forest (protection against natural hazards)

number of deadwood stems

number of species

number of stems

number of stems (young trees)

oak (main tree species)

organization (type of ownership)

permanent sample plot ("permanent plot")

pick-up truck

pile of branches

pile of stones

pine (main tree species)

pioneer tree species

plant community (syn.: association)

privately owned forest

production region

proportion of conifers

protection forest

protection forest NFI4 (protection forest against natural hazards)

protection forest region

protective effect (against natural hazards)

protective function

pubescent cotoneaster

pure stand

pure stand, broadleaved

recreational function

regeneration (activity)

regeneration (result)

regeneration activity

regeneration stand (stand relevant for regeneration)

regeneration under shelterwood

regeneration, artificial

regeneration, natural (process)

rotation length (syn.: rotation period)

roundwood

rowan

rum cherry

rusty-leaved alpenrose

sample

sample grid

sample plot

sample plot inventory

sampling error

Sanasilva Inventory

sanitary felling (process)

sanitary fellings (yield)

secondary felling (syn.: establishment cut)

secondary growth (syn.: recruitment)

shelterbelt (syn.: forest mantle)

silvicultural project

silvicultural treatment (syn.: silvicultural intervention)

silviculture

single ownership

single tree selection (selection felling; syn.: plenter selection [plenter felling])

single-tree selection forest (syn.: plenter forest)

skidder with articulated steering

slenderness ratio (syn.: height/dbh ratio)

socio-economic function

soil acidity ("acidity")

species, alien (syn.: species, non-native)

species, endangered

species, introduced

species, introduced, invasive (syn.: species, invasive)

spreading cotoneaster

spruce (main tree species)

stand density index (SDI)

stocking, permanently open

stone content

storm damage area

striking damage (syn.: marking damage)

striped daphne

stripping damage

structural diversity (forest edge)

structural diversity (forest stand)

structure of forest edge

stump

surroundings of forest edge

sustainability (forestry)

sweet chestnut

Swiss Forest Statistics

thinning for conversion

thinning of continuous cover forest

thinning of mountain forest

timber (stage of stand development)

timber assortment ("assortment")

timber consumption

timber production

timber production function

timber volume, merchantable

timber-harvesting costs

total mean increment (TMI)

total number of stems

treatment urgency (syn.: intervention urgency)

tree species, dominant

tree species, introduced

tree species, native

tree-of-heaven

tree-top

truck road (syn.: forest road)

type of treatment (syn.: type of intervention)

type of woodland fragment

ungulate browsing ("browsing")

upper layer

use (forest use)

use of forest resources

use, agroforestry

Vaccinium gaultherioides

validation

vegetation, potential natural

waste disposal site / landfill

willow-leaved cotoneaster

wood harvest (syn.: timber harvest)

wood mass

wood-harvesting costs, potential (syn.: timber-harvesting costs, potential)

wood-harvesting technique (syn.: timber-harvesting technique)

wooded pasture

woodland fragments

woodpile

woody species (syn.: ligneous species)

woody species diversity (forest edge)

woody species diversity (forest stand)

young forest treatment

young growth/ thicket

young plantation

shrub

Persistent woody plant that forks at the base and cannot grow higher than 5 m.

Strauch

Ausdauerndes Holzgewächs, das von Grund auf (basiton) verzweigt ist und nicht über 5 m hoch werden kann.

arbuste

Plante ligneuse vivace, au tronc ramifié dès sa base et qui ne dépasse pas 5 m de hauteur.

arbusto

Pianta legnosa perenne con ramificazione del fusto già a partire dal livello del suolo (policormia) e che non supera i 5 m d'altezza.