area designated as a nature reserve

ENVO:00000363 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·EXACT REVIEWED

A protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. Nature reserves may be designated by government institutions in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, or by private landowners, such as charities and research institutions, regardless of nationality. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

Broader habitats

• area of protected biodiversity ENVO:00000358
• soil ENVO:00001998

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Also called

• Nature reserve — GOLD
• natural preserve — ENVO
• natural preserve — PREGO
• natural preserves — PREGO
• natural reserve — ENVO
• natural reserve — PREGO
• natural reserves — PREGO
• nature preserve — ENVO
• nature preserve — PREGO
• nature preserves — PREGO
• nature reserve — ENVO
• nature reserve — PREGO
• nature reserves — PREGO
• protected reserves — PREGO
• protected reserveses — PREGO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

1. REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5

   Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.576e16fca0)

2. REVIEW 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5

   Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Multi-source review pass: this record is attested by more than one independent vocabulary, and this source's label or path was read against the record's ontology term to check the merge is right. It agrees. Source concepts in the same pass whose labels did not agree were re-decided rather than endorsed; see the pass's other decisions of the same date. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.e642a3c330)

Provenance

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