The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). This record contains information about: number of woody species (≥40 cm high), growing stock (stemwood), deadwood quantity, deadwood quantity per forest area, deadwood volume (merch. wood without piles of branches), lying, deadwood volume (merch. wood without piles of branches), lying per forest area, growing stock (stemwood) per forest area, volume of deadwood (stemwood), volume of deadwood (stemwood) per forest area, diversity of woody species, deadwood volume (merchantable wood), lying, deadwood volume (merchantable wood), lying per forest area, forest area, number of stems, number of stems per forest area and basal area per forest area
