Freshwater biogeographic province 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2017 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	316,611	1,087,627	4,318	512,390	39,021	61	2,839,589	83,786	2,575,617	7,459,020
Central	30,487,033	125,191	242,496	3,537	12,202	17,792	12	110,889	61,542	532,707	1,106,368
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	13	48,575		3,599			24,564		19,177	95,928
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,361			462,586	3,447	2	1,746,052	1,725	800,763	3,022,935
Murray Darling	26,252,623	92,687			23,548	4,820	< 1	206,314	11,086	134,506	472,962
South East	7,349,836	58,361	33,468	309	13	3,412	22	40,584	2,885	103,095	242,151
Wallum	572,490	2,342	23,623	282	3,595	430	4	67,751	990	5,375	104,392
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	18,571	670,159		4,536	8,737	11	575,440	3,949	927,257	2,208,660
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	11,085	67,083	191	2,312	382	7	48,698	1,609	51,214	182,582

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.