Forest Sector Terminology Work Project has compiled and published its fifth glossary.
In this terminology work, the subject areas Site Types and Forest Site Types as well as Mire Site Types from the Finnish-Russian Forest Dictionary have been updated. The terminology has been revised and expanded to include the previously missing concepts.
The glossary is divided into the following parts:
- Forest type science
- Vegetation zones
- Classification of forestry land
- Classification of poorly productive forest land
- Classification of unproductive land
- Classification of mineral soil sites
- Dry herb-rich forests
- Moist herb-rich forests
- Mesic herb-rich forests
- Classification of heathland
- Herb-rich heath forests
- Mesic heath forests
- Sub-xeric heath forests
- Xeric heath forests
- Wetlands and mires
- Genuine spruce mires
- Genuine pine mires
- Combination spruce fens
- Combination pine fens
- Eutrophic fens
- Meso-eutrophic fens
- Mesotrophic, oligotrophic or ombrotrophic open mires
- Swamps
- Seasonal wetlands
- Mire complexes
- Aapa mires
- Geomorphological formations of mires
- Trophy levels and classification of mires by trophy levels
- Drained peatlands and transformed drained peatland forests
- Independent concepts
Experts who participated in the compilation of the glossary and consultation/commenting:
- Juha-Pekka Hotanen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Markku Saarinen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Tiina Tonteri, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Irina Kudasheva, Finnish Forest Centre, terminologist
- Henry Schneider, HSForest
- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
- Markku Paananen
- Finnish Heritage Agency
- Jussi Heinonsalo and Elina Kaarlejärvi, University of Helsinki
- Metsähallitus
- Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)
- Hannu Salo and Sanni Rantanen, Bioenergy Association of Finland
- Pasi Patrikainen and Markku Markkula, National Land Survey of Finland
- Henrik Lindberg, Häme University of Applied Sciences
- Niina Riissanen, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
- Anna Rakemaa and Jussi Lappalainen, Finnish Forest Centre
- Katja Holmala, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Marja-Leena Päätalo, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), coordinator
- Kai Blauberg, Finnish Forest Centre, Forest Sector Terminology Work Project, project manager