Freshwater biogeographic province 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	294,331	1,088,512	4,008	512,486	38,260	60	2,844,166	81,996	2,584,214	7,448,033
Central	30,487,033	113,358	243,252	3,500	12,286	17,418	15	111,930	61,078	534,971	1,097,809
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	7,754			462,597	3,423	2	1,746,184	1,725	801,392	3,023,077
Murray Darling	26,252,623	87,806			23,548	4,777		207,985	10,697	135,563	470,376
South East	7,349,836	55,444	33,616	315	13	3,262	22	40,986	2,841	103,581	240,079
Wallum	572,490	3,238	23,616	1	3,595	319	3	68,164	392	5,443	104,772
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	15,815	670,162		4,536	8,693	11	576,180	3,658	931,294	2,210,348
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,910	67,075	192	2,312	368	7	48,876	1,606	51,271	182,617

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.