Freshwater biogeographic province 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	310,796	1,088,141	4,080	512,475	38,886	64	2,841,239	82,558	2,581,696	7,459,935
Central	30,487,033	121,670	242,879	3,545	12,287	17,753	17	111,313	61,151	533,780	1,104,395
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	12	48,575		3,599			24,564		19,177	95,927
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,152			462,586	3,442	2	1,746,036	1,725	800,921	3,022,863
Murray Darling	26,252,623	91,074			23,548	4,819		206,661	11,080	135,074	472,255
South East	7,349,836	58,084	33,604	313	13	3,379	22	40,727	2,855	103,250	242,248
Wallum	572,490	3,009	23,614	31	3,595	385	4	67,805	540	5,389	104,371
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	17,746	670,162		4,536	8,732	11	576,053	3,604	931,338	2,212,182
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	11,049	67,084	191	2,312	376	7	48,784	1,603	51,246	182,652

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.