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.

• Federal Law on Forests

  Federal law on the forest dating from 4 October 1991, which became effective on 01.01.1993, including the forest regulations of 30 November 1992.
• [de] Waldgesetz (WaG)
  Bundesgesetz über den Wald vom 4. Oktober 1991, in Kraft getreten am 01.01.1993. Dazu gehört die Waldverordnung (WaV) vom 30. November 1992.
• [fr] Loi sur les forêts (LFo)
  Loi fédérale sur les forêts du 4 octobre 1991, entrée en vigueur le 1.1.1993. L'Ordonnance sur les forêts (OFo) du 30 novembre 1992 s'y rattache.
• [it] legge forestale
  Legge Federale sulle Foreste del 4 ottobre 1991, entrata in vigore il 1 gennaio 1993. Ad essa collegata la relativa Ordinanza di applicazione del 30 novembre 1992 (OFo).

• 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.