Freshwater biogeographic province 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 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	317,884	1,087,600	4,316	512,390	39,066	61	2,838,872	83,947	2,574,314	7,458,450
Central	30,487,033	125,568	242,490	3,537	12,201	17,807	13	110,707	61,568	532,256	1,106,148
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	8,423			462,586	3,447	2	1,746,039	1,733	800,755	3,022,985
Murray Darling	26,252,623	93,036			23,548	4,837	< 1	206,012	11,117	133,908	472,459
South East	7,349,836	58,436	33,454	306	13	3,410	22	40,528	2,886	102,971	242,026
Wallum	572,490	2,289	23,621	282	3,595	444	4	67,624	1,072	5,359	104,291
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	18,999	670,155		4,536	8,741	11	575,422	3,949	927,154	2,208,966
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	11,120	67,083	191	2,312	379	7	48,681	1,622	51,210	182,605

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.