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.

• high forest, uniform (even-aged)

  High forest made up of homogeneous stands, which are delimitable by area and have a layered structure. The trees that constitute the stand (main stand) have similar diameters at breast height and therefore belong to the same stage of stand development.
• [de] Hochwald, gleichförmiger
  Hochwald aus homogenen, flächenmässig abgrenzbaren Beständen mit schichtiger Struktur, in denen die bestandesbildenden Bäume (Hauptbestand) ähnliche Brusthöhendurchmesser aufweisen und somit einer Entwicklungsstufe zugeordnet werden können.
• [fr] futaie régulière
  Futaie composée de peuplements homogènes, de surfaces délimitées, avec une structure uniforme (à une ou plusieurs strates), dans laquelle les arbres formant le peuplement (peuplement principal) présentent des diamètres à hauteur de poitrine semblables et sont donc assimilés au même stade de développement.
• [it] fustaia regolare
  Fustaia costituita da popolamenti omogenei, delimitabili spazialmente, con una struttura per piani e nella quale gli alberi di maggior peso (popolamento principale) presentano un diametro a petto d'uomo simile e possono quindi essere attribuiti ad un unico stadio di sviluppo.

• 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.