Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

Comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve system: a forest reserve system that includes the full range of vegetation communities (‘comprehensive’), with a level of reservation sufficiently large to maintain species diversity as well as community interaction and evolution (‘adequate’), and conserving the diversity (including genetic diversity) within each vegetation community (‘representative’). The CAR reserve system comprises dedicated formal reserves, informal reserves, and areas where forest values are protected by management prescriptions, as well as areas protected on private land.

See Formal reserve, Informal reserve, Management by prescription, National Reserve System, Protected area, Vegetation community.