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.

• forest, public

  Forest governed by public law, i.e. forest belonging to the Confederation, cantons, local authorities, communities of citizens and corporations governed by public law.
• [de] Wald, öffentlicher
  Wald, der einer öffentlichrechtlichen Körperschaft gehört, d.h. Wald des Bundes, der Kantone, der politischen Gemeinden, Bürgergemeinden und öffentlichrechtlichen Korporationen.
• [fr] forêts publiques
  Forêts qui appartiennent à un organisme de droit public, c.-à-d. forêts de la Confédération, des cantons, des communes politiques, des bourgeoisies et des corporations de droit public , cf. forêts privées.
• [it] bosco pubblico
  Bosco che appartiene ad un ente di diritto pubblico, vale a dire Confederazione, Cantone, Comuni politici, Patriziati e Corporazioni di diritto pubblico.

• 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.