Study area 2005 wetland system extents

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2005 wetland system extent by study area
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Study area	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	1,359,762	4,174	23,505	167	2,883	496	45,987	652	15,650	93,514
Cairns Urban	62,327	485	4,561	166		4	498	5	502	6,223
Great Sandy Strait	1,218,935	3,471	15,352		2,849	393	33,193	346	14,785	70,389
Pumicestone Passage	78,501	218	3,591	< 1	34	99	12,295	301	363	16,902

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of study areas.

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.