Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

The process of converting timber or forest products into one or more higher-value products.

A native forest silvicultural system alternative to clearfelling, that is designed to meet both harvest objectives and ecological objectives through the retention of trees within an area planned for harvest, with the amount and configuration of retention dependent upon the silvicultural objectives for the stand.

See Aggregated retention, Clearfelling, Harvesting, Silvicultural system.

A plant with conducting tissue (comprising xylem and phloem) that transports water, mineral salts and sugars. Includes clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants).

See Angiosperm, Gymnosperm, Non-vascular plant, Phloem, Xylem.

A group of plant species inhabiting a particular area and interacting with each other, especially through biotic relationships, relatively independently of other plant communities.

See Community (ecological).

Thin sheets of wood, usually thinner than 3 millimetres, which can be glued and pressed to make plywood, or glued and pressed onto core panels (typically wood, particleboard or medium-density fibreboard) to produce panels. Can be produced by slicing or peeling logs.

See Fibreboard, Particleboard, Peeler log, Plywood, Rotary peeling, Veneer log.

A log suitable for producing sliced veneer sheets. Excludes peeler logs used to produce rotary-peeled veneer.

See Peeler log, Veneer.

A native species/ecological community facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future. One of the categories of threatened species/ecological communities defined in the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

See Critically endangered species/ecological community, Ecological community, Endangered species/ecological community, Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Threatened ecological community, Threatened species.