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 definition

  Helps to decide when to separate forest from nonforest. In the NFI the proper criteria for the forest/nonforest distinction are minimum width, minimum percentage cover and minimum top height.
• [de] Walddefinition
  Entscheidungsgrundlage zur Abgrenzung von Wald und Nichtwald. Im LFI sind die Kriterien Mindestbreite, minimaler Deckungsgrad und minimale Oberhöhe für den Wald-/Nichtwaldentscheid massgebend.
• [fr] définition de la forêt
  Base de décision pour délimiter la forêt et les surfaces hors-forêt. Dans l'IFN, les trois critères largeur, degré de recouvrement et hauteur dominante minimaux sont déterminants lors de la décision forêt / hors-forêt.
• [it] definizione di bosco
  Base decisionale per la distinzione tra bosco e non bosco. Nell'IFN i criteri di delimitazione bosco/non bosco sono la larghezza minima, il grado di copertura minimo e l'altezza dominante minima.

• 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.