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.

• stand, relevant to regeneration

  Stand in which the present regeneration is silviculturally very significant, i.e. it will most likely be the main stand in the future.The relevant NFI evaluation units are: "young growth/ thicket", "regeneration under shelter" and "selection-type high forest".
• [de] Bestand, verjüngungsrelevanter
  Bestände, in denen die vorhandene Verjüngung waldbaulich eine grosse Bedeutung hat, d.h. höchstwahrscheinlich den zukünftigen Hauptbestand darstellt. Darunter werden im LFI die Auswertungseinheiten "Jungwuchs/Dickung", "Verjüngung unter Schirm" und "plenterartiger Hochwald" verstanden.
• [fr] peuplement en cours de régénération
  Peuplements, dans lesquels le rajeunissement existant revêt une grande signification sylvicole, c.-à-d. constitue très vraisemblablement le futur peuplement principal. Dans l'IFN, cela correspond aux ensembles analysés "recrû/fourré", "régénération sous abri" et "futaie d'aspect jardiné".
• [it] popolamento con rinnovazione significativa
  Popolamenti in cui la rinnovazione presente ha una grossa importanza dal punto di vista selvicolturale e che quindi ha elevate probabilità di rappresentare il futuro popolamento principale. Fra questi, nell'IFN vengono intesi le unità di analisi: novelleti/spessine, rinnovazione sotto copertura e fustaie a struttura disetanea.

• 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.