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.

• sampling error

  Random deviation of a measure (e.g. mean), that has been estimated from a sample, from the true value of the population. The standard error serves as a measure the size of the sampling error.
• [de] Stichprobenfehler
  Zufällige Abweichung der aus einer Stichprobe geschätzten Grösse (z. B. Mittelwert) vom wahren Wert der Grundgesamtheit. Als Mass für die Grösse des Stichprobenfehler dient der Standardfehler.
• [fr] erreur d'échantillonnage
  Différence aléatoire entre les valeurs estimées de l'échantillon (p. ex. la moyenne) et les valeurs réelles d'un ensemble de base. On l'évalue au moyen de l'erreur standard.
• [it] errore di campionamento
  Deviazione casuale di una grandezza stimata sulla base di un campione (es. valore medio), rispetto al valore reale della popolazione totale. Come misura della grandezza dell'errore di campionamento si utilizza l'errore standard.

• 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.