Freshwater biogeographic province 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2005 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	291,035	1,073,866	3,817	512,890	36,942	2,831,049	79,297	2,436,516	7,265,412
Central	30,487,033	112,996	243,275	3,335	11,965	16,607	115,096	60,723	522,438	1,086,435
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	7,721			463,202	3,342	1,744,148	1,623	673,338	2,893,374
Murray Darling	26,252,623	85,055			23,581	4,659	203,046	9,725	136,114	462,180
South East	7,349,836	55,420	33,519	288	13	3,223	39,913	2,668	99,904	234,948
Wallum	572,490	3,238	23,675	1	3,592	307	69,621	404	5,442	106,279
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	15,804	655,623		4,584	8,468	569,369	2,565	928,269	2,184,682
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,796	66,680	192	2,312	337	47,728	1,589	50,315	179,949

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.