Dictionary/Glossary

German-French-Italian-English dictionary of plant names and technical terms used in the NFI. Definitions are given for the terms highlighted in yellow.

• losses, natural

  Trees, that have disappeared naturally between two consecutive inventories, e.g. due to avalanches, landslides or forest fires.
• [de] Abgänge, natürliche
  Baume, welche zwischen zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Inventuren naturlicherweise verschwunden sind, z. B. durch Lawinen, Hangrutsch, Waldbrand.
• [fr] disparitions naturelles
  Arbres qui ont disparu de manière naturelle entre deux inventaires successifs, p. ex. à la suite d'avalanches, de glissements de terrain, d'incendies.
• [it] alberi scomparsi
  Alberi che tra due inventari successivi scompaiono per cause naturali quali ad esempio valanghe, smottamenti o incendi.

• Recommended form of citation:
  Brändli, U.-B.; Speich, S., 2007: Swiss NFI glossary and dictionary. [Published online 27.06.2007]. Available from World Wide Web <http://www.lfi.ch/glossar/glossar-en.php>. Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.
• The German definition of the scientific terms was done with the help of the following lexica and terminologies:
  LdF = Lexikon der Forstbotanik (Schütt et al. 1991)
  SSI = Sanasilva-Inventur WSL. Terminologie im Sanasilva-Bericht 1997 (Brang und Kaennel Dobbertin 1997)
  SAFE = Forsteinrichtungsbegriffe. Schweizerischer Arbeitskreis für Forsteinrichtung (1986).
  TFW = Terminologie Forsteinrichtung/Waldinventur (Bick et al. 1994)
  WBö = Wörterbücher der Biologie. Ökologie (Schäfer und Tischler 1983)
  WT = Waldbauliche Terminologie (Brünig und Mayer 1980)
  Anl. LFI = Anleitung für die Feldaufnahmen der Erhebung 1993-1995 (Stierlin et al. 1994)
• The German, French and Italien plant names were taken mainly from the book Die häufigsten Waldbäume der Schweiz or from the Flora Helvetica
• The English plant names were taken form the internet (swiss web flora, PLANTS Database and Dictionary of Common Names by plantpress.com). The notations and abbreviations were taken from IPNI - The international Plant Names Index.