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.

• classification unit

  Classifies the analyzed data (target value) into characteristics such as ownership by public and private or main tree species by different tree species.
• [de] Befundeinheit
  Gliedert die analysierten Daten (Zielgrösse) nach ihren Ausprägungen wie z.B. Eigentum nach öffentlich und privat oder Hauptbaumart nach den verschiedenen Hauptbaumarten.
• [fr] unité du résultat
  Segmente les données analysées (valeurs cibles) en fonction d'une certaine caractéristique p.ex. propriété privée/publique ou d'après l'essence dominante du peuplement.
• [it] unità di reperimento
  I dati analizzati vengono strutturati ed articolati secondo i loro attributi, ad esempio: la Proprietà secondo pubblico e privato o la Specie arborea principale secondo le differenti specie arboree.

• 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.