Freshwater biogeographic province 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2009 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	299,773	1,073,728	3,829	512,888	37,108	2,829,504	79,549	2,434,995	7,271,374
Central	30,487,033	117,148	243,135	3,354	11,965	16,753	114,812	60,732	521,795	1,089,695
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	5	48,748		3,641		24,345		19,178	95,917
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,009			463,201	3,348	1,744,027	1,623	672,920	2,893,128
Murray Darling	26,252,623	86,855			23,580	4,659	202,411	9,979	135,856	463,340
South East	7,349,836	56,424	33,497	280	13	3,259	39,737	2,667	99,715	235,592
Wallum	572,490	3,226	23,680	5	3,591	354	69,345	381	5,395	105,977
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	17,200	655,624		4,584	8,415	569,327	2,577	928,300	2,186,028
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,905	66,697	191	2,312	319	47,717	1,589	50,317	180,049

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.