Dictionary/glossary

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.

• intermediate treatment

  An inclusive term for all silvicultural measures taken between the establishment of the stand and the final cutting: tending (of young forest), selective thinning, thinning to allow in light, thinning for conversion and tending of secondary stands.
• [de] Bestandespflege
  Sammelbegriff für alle waldbaulichen Massnahmen zwischen Bestandesbegründung und Räumung: (Jungwald-)Pflege, Auslese-, Gebirgswald-, Lichtwuchs- und Überführungsduchforstungen und Pflege des Nebenbestandes.
• [fr] soins au peuplement, entretien
  Toutes les mesures sylvicoles allant de la création d'un peuplement à sa réalisation: soins (culturaux), éclaircies sélective, de forêt de montagne, de mise en lumière, de conversion ainsi que les soins au peuplement accessoire.
• [it] cure colturali (al popolamento)
  Tutti i provvedimenti selvicolturali tra la costituzione del popolamento e l'avviamento della rinnovazione volti al conseguimento degli obiettivi produttivi (cura del popolamento). Nell'IFN si intendono gli interventi selvicolturali nel bosco giovane (cura del bosco giovane).

• 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.