Freshwater biogeographic province 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	303,242	1,088,337	4,021	512,485	38,462	62	2,842,356	82,294	2,582,663	7,453,921
Central	30,487,033	117,621	243,091	3,519	12,286	17,567	15	111,708	61,098	534,334	1,101,239
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	8,042			462,596	3,430	2	1,746,063	1,725	800,974	3,022,831
Murray Darling	26,252,623	89,846			23,548	4,777		207,074	10,989	135,328	471,562
South East	7,349,836	56,444	33,589	306	13	3,314	22	40,819	2,838	103,412	240,758
Wallum	572,490	3,227	23,622	5	3,595	364	4	67,878	369	5,396	104,459
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	17,045	670,162		4,536	8,641	11	576,141	3,670	931,271	2,211,478
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	11,012	67,082	191	2,312	368	7	48,812	1,606	51,248	182,639

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.