IBRA bioregion 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of IBRA bioregion

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2009 wetland system extent by IBRA bioregion
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IBRA bioregion	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	172,991,372	303,186	1,144,301	4,084	514,038	38,490	61	2,844,264	82,300	2,583,750	7,514,474
Brigalow Belt North (BBN)	13,674,533	85,919	202,046	3,503	1,405	8,856	10	34,174	54,083	254,846	644,843
Brigalow Belt South (BBS)	21,596,722	49,745	96		5,768	8,578		24,742	4,385	125,435	218,748
Cape York Peninsula (CYP)	12,256,457	1,763	242,860		5,383	175		284,625	305	94,521	629,633
Central Mackay Coast (CMC)	1,464,208	9,574	53,217	66	15	96	2	25,699	4,180	24,669	117,519
Channel Country (CHC)	20,586,529	821			364,455	499	2	1,618,156	325	536,647	2,520,907
Coral Sea (COS)	17,167										0
Darling Riverine Plains (DRP)	1,286,683	45,049			231	1,037		8,239	3,952	21,794	80,302
Desert Uplands (DEU)	6,941,095	1,943			22,091	557	< 1	47,457	894	85,585	158,526
Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)	11,625,726	11,393			4,964	5,851	6	65,854	1,034	292,519	381,621
Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU)	589,180					1		1,428		9,984	11,413
Gulf Plains (GUP)	21,894,679	4,751	530,699		4,214	1,631	11	312,194	3,229	570,524	1,427,251
Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD)	24,162,527	6,550			1,046	2,755		46,405	389	182,017	239,162
Mount Isa Inlier (MII)	6,754,379	5,939				1,806		863		170,362	178,969
Mulga Lands (MUL)	18,606,551	9,103			23,277	1,027		218,186	5,182	79,138	335,913
Nandewar (NAN)	629,160	4,083						71	2	11,709	15,865
New England Tablelands (NET)	145,132	689				8		218	4	3,792	4,710
Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)	2,621,932	67			77,420	66		13,117	71	1,516	92,257
South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)	6,149,605	56,230	65,398	323	3,607	5,446	27	108,221	3,103	92,830	335,183
Wet Tropics (WET)	1,989,107	9,568	49,984	191	163	105	3	34,616	1,160	25,863	121,652

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