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.

• coppice with standards

  Forest form with elements of both the coppice and the high forest. It consists of a lower layer grown from coppice and an upper layer grown from standards and sometimes from sprouted coppice (according to WT).
• [de] Mittelwald
  Waldform mit Elementen des Niederwaldes und des Hochwaldes, bestehend aus einer Unterschicht (Unterholz) aus Stockausschlägen und einer Oberschicht (Oberholz) aus Kernwüchsen, z.T. auch aus durchgewachsenen Stockausschlägen (nach WT).
• [fr] taillis-sous-futaie
  Forme de la forêt présentant des éléments du taillis et de la futaie, composé d'une strate inférieure (sous-étage) de rejets de souche et d'une strate dominante de francs-pieds et en partie de rejets de souche réservés (selon WT).
• [it] ceduo composto
  Forma di governo con elementi del ceduo e della fustaia, costituito da uno strato inferiore di polloni e da uno strato superiore di piedi franchi e, in parte, anche da polloni invecchiati (da WT).

• 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.