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.

• stability standards

  Minimum silvicultural goals in a protection forest to sufficiently reduce the effect of natural hazards, varying according to forest community. The goals are based on the notion of natural forest (cf. WASSER and FREHNER 1996). In the NFI qualitative criteria for the stand structure are derived from these goals and used as the basis for assessing the medium- to long-term maintenance of the protective effect.
• [de] Stabilitätsanforderungen
  Waldbauliche Minimalziele im Schutzwald zur ausreichenden Reduktion der Wirkung von Naturgefahren, basierend auf den Vorstellungen über den Naturwald, differenziert nach Waldgesellschaften (vgl. WASSER und FREHNER 1996). Im LFI darauf aufbauende qualitative Kriterien zum Bestandesaufbau als Grundlage für die Beurteilung der mittel- bis langfristigen Erhaltung der Schutzwirkung.
• [fr] exigences de stabilité
  Objectifs sylvicoles minimaux dans les forêts protectrices pour réduire suffisamment les effets des dangers naturels, basés sur les conceptions relatives à la forêt naturelle et différenciés par association forestière (cf. WASSER et FREHNER 1996). Dans l'IFN, critères qualitatifs relatifs à la structure du peuplement, basés sur ces objectifs et servant de base pour évaluer la conservation des effets protecteurs à moyen et long termes.
• [it] esigenze di stabilità
  Obiettivi selvicolturali minimi nel bosco di protezione al fine di ottenere una sufficiente riduzione degli effetti dei pericoli naturali, gli obiettivi sono riferiti ad un presunto bosco naturale e quindi differenziati in funzione delle associazioni forestali (vedi WASSER e FREHNER 1996). Nell'IFN sono i relativi criteri qualitativi sulla struttura dei popolamenti che vengono usati come base di riferimento per la valutazione del mantenimento dell'effetto protettivo nel medio - lungo periodo.

• 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.