Dictionary/Glossary

German-French-Italian-English dictionary of plant names and technical terms used in the NFI.

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(Swiss) Plateau

(tree) species composition

accessible forest without shrub forest

accessible forest without shrub forest NFI3/NFI4

acidity (soil acidity)

age determination

age, dominant (agedom)

alder buckthorn

alpine bearberry

alpine buckthorn

alpine clematis

alpine honeysuckle

alpine mezereon

altitudinal vegetation zone

altitudinal zone

area , wooded (woodland)

area suitable for forest

ash (main species)

attribute catalogue

attribute, categorical

attribute, derived

attribute, metrical

attribute, surveyed

avalanche protection forest

bark percentage

bearberry (kinnikinnick)

biotope value of a forest stand

black crowberry

black honeysuckle

blue honeysuckle

boundary of forest edge

branch brushwood

broad-leaved whitebeam

broadleaved (forest) area

broadleaved (forest) community

broadleaved forest

broadleaved tree

browsing intensity

browsing intensity, critical

browsing percentage

butcher's-broom

callipering threshold

change in a forest

change in forest area

change in growing stock

change in number of stems

citizens' community

classification variable

cluster (of trees)

cluster structure

common bilberry

common buckthorn

common hawthorn

common whitebeam

confidence interval

coniferous forest

coniferous forest area

coniferous forest community

coppice with standards

Cornelian-cherry

corporation (ownership category)

crack (in wood)

crown transparency

cultivated apple

damage (to the forest)

damage (to trees)

damage (to young trees)

damage caused by pasturing

damage potential

deadwood basal area

deadwood quantity

deadwood volume

degree of cover

degree of damage

degree of mixture (aerial photo)

degree of mixture (terrestrial)

degree of regeneration cover

density of forest edge

development stage

diameter at 7m height (d7)

diameter at breast height (dbh)

diversity, biological

dominant diameter at breast height (dbhdom)

dominant height (hdom)

dwarf buckthorn

dwarf mountain-pine

dwarf whitebeam

economic region

ecotone value of the forest edge

embankment (artificial) / slope (natural)

environmental monitoring

environmental policies

epicormic shoot

error, statistical

European hackberry

European honeysuckle

European silver-fir

European spindle

European white-elm

evaluation (data analyses)

evaluation area

exotic (tree) species

exposed bare wood

extraction costs

extraction distance

extraction system

false camphor-tree

false indigo-bush

false Virginia-creeper

fir (main species)

fly honeysuckle

forest / nonforest decision

forest area, inaccessible

forest area, managed

forest area, pastured

forest area, permanently unstocked

forest area, temporarily unstocked

forest boundary

forest boundary line

forest canopy gap

forest community

forest composition

forest condition

forest definition

forest district

forest ecosystem

Forest Europe criterion

forest formation

forest function

forest inventory

forest management plan

forest management, sustainable

forest pasturing

forest planning

Forest Police Law (FPolL)

forest policies

forest transport infrastructure

forest with pasturing

forest, inaccessible

forest, private

Geographic Information System (GIS)

golden kiwifruit

gross increment

ground vegetation

ground virginsbower

groundwater protection zone

group selection system

growing stock per hectare

hairy alpenrose

harvesting damage

harvesting losses

hazard potential

health (vitality)

Henry's honeysuckle

herbaceous fringe

high forest, non-uniform

high forest, selection-type

high forest, uniform

higher altitude zone

hillslope debris flow

inclusion (damage)

interpretation area

interview survey

Japanese honeysuckle

Japanese red-cedar

Japanese spiraea

land-use statistics

large-leaved lime

large-leaved spindle

Line Intersect Sampling (LIS)

local recreation

loss of vitality

losses, natural

lower altitude zone

main diameter class

main tree species

management intensity

management system

management, sustainable

maple (main tree species)

means of extraction

measure, silvicultural

merchantable branch wood

merchantable stemwood

merchantable timber harvested

merchantable wood

Midland hawthorn

minimum width (for forest definition)

mixture distribution

mixture species

mortality, remaining

mountain currant

mountain forest

mountain selection forest

National Forest Inventory

national inventory

natural characteristics

natural hazards

natural regeneration (result)

Naturalness of the proportion of conifers

nature conservation

nature conservation function

NFI Field Manual

NFI2 protection forest (protection against natural hazards)

NFI3 protection forest (protection against natural hazards)

non-forest area

non-wood products

normal forest model

number of deadwood stems

number of species

number of stems

number of stems (young trees)

oak (main tree species)

old timber stand

organization (type of ownership)

pasturing intensity

pedunculate oak

percent forest cover

pile of branches

pine (main species)

pioneer tree species

plant community

prehauling distance

privately owned forest

production region

proportion of conifers

protection forest

protection forest NFI4 (protection forest against natural hazards)

protection forest region

protective effect (against natural hazards)

protective function

pubescent cotoneaster

pure stand, broadleaved

pure stand, conifer

Pyrenean whitebeam

recreation facility

recreational function

recreational use

red-berried elder

red-osier dogwood

reference stand

regeneration (activity)

regeneration (result)

regeneration activity

regeneration stand (stand relevant for regeneration)

regeneration under shelterwood

regeneration, artificial

regeneration, natural (process)

regional demarcation

representativeness

reproducibility

riparian woodland

rockfall damage

root-to-shoot ratio

rootable soil depth

rotation length

rusty-leaved alpenrose

sample plot inventory

sample plot, permanent

Sanasilva Inventory

sanitary felling (process)

sanitary fellings (yield)

Scottish laburnum

secondary felling

secondary growth

secondary stand

selective thinning

shape of forest edge

shrub forest species

shrubby milkwort

silvicultural project

silvicultural treatment

single ownership

single-tree selection (selection felling)

single-tree selection forest

site properties

skidder with articulated steering

slenderness ratio

slope (terrain)

small-leaved elm

small-leaved lime

socio-economic function

soil protection

southern greenweed

species diversity

species, endangered

species, introduced

species, introduced, invasive

species, invasive

spreading cotoneaster

spruce (main species)

St. Lucie cherry

stability standards

Stag's-horn sumach

stag-headedness

stand density index (SDI)

stand stability

stand structure

standard deviation

standard, remnant

stocking, permanently open

storm damage area

striking damage

stripping damage

structural diversity (forest edge)

structural diversity (forest stand)

structure of forest edge

surroundings of forest edge

sustainability (forestry)

Swiss Forest Statistics

target variable

tariff (function)

thinning for conversion

thinning of continuous cover forest

thinning of mountain forest

timber (stage of stand development)

timber consumption

timber production

timber production function

timber volume, merchantable

timber-harvesting costs

top (end) diameter

total basal area

total forest area

total mean increment (TMI)

total number of stems

total wood volume

trailing azalea

trampling damage

traveller's-joy

treatment urgency

tree species, dominant

tree species, introduced

tree species, native

true service-tree

type of regeneration

type of road surface

type of shrub forest

type of treatment

type of woodland fragment

use (forest use)

use of forest resources

use, agroforestry

Vaccinium gaultherioides

vegetation, potential natural

Virginia-creeper

volume function

wall cotoneaster

waste disposal site / landfill

weathering damage

wild cotoneaster

wild service-tree

willow-leaved cotoneaster

Wilson's honeysuckle

wood-harvesting costs, potential

wood-harvesting technique

woodland fragments

woody species diversity (forest edge)

woody species diversity (forest stand)

work done in-house

wrinkled viburnum

young forest treatment

young growth/ thicket

young plantation

higher altitude zone

Area at higher altitudes. In NFI, this encompasses the upper montane, subalpine, alpine and nival altidudinal vegetation zones. Contrast with lower altitude zone.

DE

Hochlagen

Gebiete in höheren Lagen. Im LFI werden die obere montane, die subalpine, die alpine und die nivale Vegetationshöhenstufe zu den Hochlagen zusammengefasst. Das Gegenstück sind die Tieflagen.

FR

zones supérieures

Régions situées à des altitudes supérieures. Dans l’IFN, ce terme englobe les étages de végétation montagnard supérieur, subalpin, alpin et nival. Voir aussi Zones inférieures.

IT

alta quota

Zone situate a quote superiori. Nell'IFN comprendono i piani vegetazionali montano superiore, subalpino, alpino e nivale. Vedi anche Bassa quota. Sinonimo: stazioni di alta quota.