Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

An area, incorporating all living and non-living components, that is dominated by trees having usually a single stem and a mature or potentially mature stand height exceeding 2 metres and with existing or potential crown cover of overstorey strata about equal to or greater than 20%. This includes Australia’s diverse native forests and plantations, regardless of age. It is also sufficiently broad to encompass areas of trees that are sometimes described as woodlands.

This definition used in Australia is different from the definitions of forest that apply in some other countries, or the definition used by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

See Commercial plantation, Crown cover, Native forest, Other forest, Overstorey, Plantation.