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 area, temporarily unstocked

  Area unstocked at the time of the sample plot survey, but where restocking is planned, e.g. cutting, burnt or windthrow area?.
• [de] Waldfläche, vorübergehend nicht bestockte
  Im Zeitpunkt der Probeflächenaufnahme nicht bestockte Waldfläche, z. B. Schlag-, Brand- oder Sturmflächen, die zur Wiederbestockung vorgesehen sind.
• [fr] surface forestière temporairement non boisée
  Surface non boisée au moment du relevé de la placette, mais destinée à être reboisée, p. ex. trouée de coupe, surface ravagée par l'incendie ou le vent. Terme équivalent à surface forestière provisoirement non boisée dans l'IFN1.
• [it] superficie forestale temporaneamente priva di vegetazione arborea, superficie di taglio
  Superficie forestale senza soprassuolo arboreo al momento del rilievo dell'area di saggio. Aree percorse da incendio, con schianti o di tagliate, per le quali si prevede una ricostituzione del soprassuolo.

• 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.