Landscape
The type of rainforest represented in the Nicoll Scrub National Park and Currumbin reserve once formed part of the extensive rainforest communities of south-east Queensland and are closely related to the drier rainforest communities that formed the 'Big Scrub' in the Lismore district. The landscape of the Currumbin Reserve consists primarily of regenerating forest. The absence of old growth canopy species, and their replacement with what are commonly secondary taxa, indicates that the Reserve has formerly been logged.