Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

A natural or human-caused event that damages, destroys or removes some or all of the trees or other vegetation from an area of land. Disturbance can include planned and unplanned fire, wind, hail, snow, flood, pests and diseases, and forestry operations such as wood harvesting and thinning. Disturbance can also impact on the structure or physical properties of soil, or expose soil to erosion.

See Dieback, Harvesting, Planned fire, Thinning, Unplanned fire, Windthrow.