Freshwater biogeographic province 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2001 wetland system extent by freshwater biogeographic province
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Freshwater biogeographic province	Total area (ha)	Wetland area by system									Total wetland area (ha)
		artificial and highly modified	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified)	lacustrine (natural)	lacustrine (slightly modified)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	277,557	1,088,778	4,056	512,487	36,920	61	2,846,281	81,260	2,588,616	7,436,016
Central	30,487,033	106,282	243,447	3,530	12,287	16,321	14	112,935	61,095	536,585	1,092,495
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	5	48,569		3,599			24,564		19,177	95,914
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	7,255			462,597	3,412	1	1,746,293	1,683	801,716	3,022,957
Murray Darling	26,252,623	83,244			23,548	4,732		208,297	10,015	136,506	466,342
South East	7,349,836	52,049	33,676	330	13	3,191	24	41,385	2,845	104,894	238,409
Wallum	572,490	3,308	23,620	1	3,595	236	3	68,145	382	5,523	104,813
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	14,496	670,162		4,536	8,679	11	576,254	3,645	931,380	2,209,161
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,919	67,082	195	2,312	350	7	49,113	1,595	51,312	182,884

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of freshwater biogeographic provinces.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.