Freshwater biogeographic province 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	274,555	1,074,158	3,876	512,890	35,606	2,833,259	78,567	2,440,963	7,253,874
Central	30,487,033	105,950	243,470	3,377	11,966	15,494	116,080	60,746	524,108	1,081,189
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	5	48,748		3,641		24,345		19,178	95,916
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	7,168			463,202	3,339	1,744,253	1,581	673,652	2,893,195
Murray Darling	26,252,623	80,888			23,581	4,615	203,356	9,042	137,060	458,540
South East	7,349,836	52,033	33,575	303	13	3,152	40,315	2,673	101,225	233,290
Wallum	572,490	3,307	23,678	1	3,592	223	69,619	394	5,523	106,337
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	14,415	655,623		4,584	8,465	569,503	2,552	928,333	2,183,476
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,789	66,718	195	2,312	317	48,005	1,579	50,367	180,281

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.