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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.
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| The average height of the 100 strongest (= widest) trees per hectare. Applied to the stand age of 50 years, they form the site class in the Swiss yield tables. [D] Oberhöhe (hdom) Mittlere Höhe der 100 stärksten (= dicksten) Bäume pro Hektare. Bezogen auf das Bestandesalter von 50 Jahren bildet sie in den schweizerischen Ertragstafeln die Bonität. [F] hauteur dominante Hauteur moyenne des 100 plus gros arbres par hectare. Rapportée à l'âge du peuplement de 50 ans, elle représente, dans les tables de production suisses, l'indice fertilité. [I] altezza dominante Media delle altezze dei 100 alberi più grossi ad ettaro. Quando è riferita ad un popolamento di 50 anni di età corrisponde, nelle tavole alsometriche svizzere, alla feracità. |
- 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.
