Freshwater biogeographic province 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 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	306,940	1,073,450	3,888	512,878	37,414	2,828,697	79,892	2,434,129	7,277,288
Central	30,487,033	121,082	242,825	3,380	11,965	16,941	114,459	60,877	521,271	1,092,799
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	12	48,754		3,641		24,345		19,178	95,930
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,105			463,191	3,360	1,744,000	1,623	672,904	2,893,183
Murray Darling	26,252,623	87,854			23,580	4,660	202,210	9,979	135,616	463,898
South East	7,349,836	58,067	33,513	287	13	3,329	39,650	2,684	99,556	237,098
Wallum	572,490	3,010	23,681	31	3,591	374	69,274	552	5,388	105,902
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	17,894	655,624		4,584	8,429	569,246	2,588	928,364	2,186,728
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,916	66,707	191	2,312	321	47,731	1,589	50,335	180,102

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.