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On this page you find the translations of woody species and of terms as well as their explanations (marked with yellow background), which were used in the NFI.
| minimum width |
| Lowest possible width of a stocking for it still to count as forest, depending on the degree of cover. [D] Mindestbreite Untergrenze der Breite einer als Wald geltenden Bestockung in Abhängigkeit ihres Deckungsgrades. [F] largeur minimale Largeur minimale d'un boisement classé en forêt, en fonction du degré de recouvrement. [I] larghezza minima Limite inferiore di larghezza di un soprassuolo per essere considerato bosco. Questo parametro è funzione del grado di copertura. |
- 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.
