Freshwater biogeographic province 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	312,373	1,073,049	4,127	512,878	37,526	2,827,548	80,634	2,428,330	7,276,465
Central	30,487,033	124,382	242,545	3,372	11,965	16,971	114,098	61,117	520,490	1,094,941
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	13	48,754		3,641		24,345		19,178	95,931
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,301			463,191	3,366	1,744,018	1,623	672,700	2,893,198
Murray Darling	26,252,623	89,303			23,580	4,661	201,995	9,973	135,112	464,626
South East	7,349,836	58,359	33,387	282	13	3,355	39,470	2,714	99,398	236,978
Wallum	572,490	2,342	23,690	282	3,591	419	69,220	1,002	5,373	105,920
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	18,718	655,621		4,584	8,427	568,974	2,609	924,255	2,183,187
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,954	66,705	191	2,312	328	47,645	1,596	50,306	180,036

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.