Bioregion 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of bioregion

based on wetland mapping version 5.0

2009 wetland system extent by bioregion
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Bioregion	Total area (km²)	Wetland area by system					Total wetland area (km²)
		artificial and highly modified	estuarine	lacustrine	palustrine	riverine
Total	1,731,405.4	3,264.3	11,621.0	5,478.6	31,334.2	24,873.9	76,572.0
Brigalow Belt (BRB)	365,281.1	1,917.1	1,972.4	133.4	1,221.8	3,828.1	9,072.8
Cape York Peninsula (CYP)	123,052.2	16.3	2,617.2	58.8	2,648.3	894.0	6,234.6
Central Queensland Coast (CQC)	14,842.8	89.3	548.2	2.3	192.5	260.5	1,092.8
Channel Country (CHC)	232,172.9	11.4	0.0	4,522.1	19,209.6	3,762.1	27,505.2
Desert Uplands (DEU)	69,411.0	22.8	0.0	207.1	651.0	765.3	1,646.2
Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)	116,257.3	161.1	0.0	119.0	561.7	3,010.4	3,852.3
Gulf Plains (GUP)	219,109.4	54.9	5,127.7	60.1	3,114.7	6,098.1	14,455.4
Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD)	241,623.3	90.8	0.0	15.2	431.4	2,465.9	3,003.3
Mulga Lands (MUL)	186,058.1	95.6	0.0	320.5	1,793.6	523.9	2,733.5
New England Tableland (NET)	7,748.0	47.8	0.0	0.0	3.0	127.4	178.2
Northwest Highlands (NWH)	73,436.4	73.7	0.0	0.0	22.6	1,961.2	2,057.6
Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	62,484.2	589.0	844.2	37.2	1,154.1	924.3	3,548.8
Wet Tropics (WET)	19,929.0	94.5	511.3	3.1	329.9	252.6	1,191.3

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

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.