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.

• natural forest

  Forest affected by human activities only to the extent that the species composition and the stand structure can return to their original state within one generation (according to WASSER and FREHNER 1996).
• [de] Naturwald
  Wald, der nur so weit beeinflusst ist, dass sich Baumartenmischung und Bestandesstruktur innerhalb einer Baumgeneration in den ursprunglichen Zustand zuruckentwickeln konnen (WASSER und FREHNER 1996).
• [fr] forêt naturelle
  Forêt assez peu influencée, de sorte que le mélange des essences et la structure du peuplement peuvent évoluer vers l'état originel en l'espace d'une génération d'arbre (WASSER et FREHNER 1996).
• [it] bosco prossimo allo stato naturale
  Bosco sottoposto a disturbi tali da permettergli di recuperare la mescolanza delle specie e la struttura naturale nel corso di una generazione di alberi (WASSER e FREHNER 1996).

• 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.