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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2005 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment 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 173,288,463 291,203 1,189,869 3,864 514,662 37,187 2,835,718 85,215 2,438,462 7,396,181
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 73 77,245 62 85 236 2,670 5,911 477 86,759
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 1,550 245,701 5,425 193 259,102 305 86,912 599,189
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 8,148 214,684 3,249 5,415 278,995 1,404 665,273 1,177,168
Great Barrier Reef catchments 33,250,025 124,618 305,612 3,513 12,401 17,054 163,551 62,572 572,579 1,261,899
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,329 444,747 3,215 1,594,376 1,370 656,596 2,707,634
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 85,462 43,704 4,793 353,048 9,977 153,518 650,502
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,753 31,228 33,761 273 771 1,642 68,645 2,011 33,766 172,096
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 6,317 299,617 1,458 2,890 84,759 896 204,610 600,547
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 5,061,440 26,478 13,249 17 2,821 1,749 30,572 768 64,732 140,386

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2005/aca-bounding-area.html

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