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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.
| trunk (tree) |
| Woody main axis of trees. In the NFI this is the part between 0.5 m above ground and the lowest green branch (without epicormic shoots), cf. stem. [D] Stamm (Baum-) Verholzte Hauptachse von Bäumen. Im LFI Stammabschnitt zwischen 0.5 m Höhe und dem untersten grünen Ast (ohne Klebäste), vgl. Schaft. [F] tronc Axe principal lignifié de l'arbre. [I] tronco Asse principale lignificato degli alberi. Nell'IFN si intende la porzione del fusto compresa tra 0,5 m di altezza e il più basso ramo vivo (esclusi i rami epicormici), vedi fusto. |
- 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.
