Freshwater biogeographic province pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

Pre-clear 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)
		intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	lacustrine (natural)	palustrine (natural)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	1,134,786	516,201	3,034,087	2,587,583	7,272,657
Central	30,487,033	293,500	12,523	178,788	566,568	1,051,379
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	48,758	3,665	24,279	19,181	95,883
Jardine	327,317	2,346		17,795	1,519	21,660
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474		463,584	1,746,441	678,127	2,888,153
Murray Darling	26,252,623		25,505	214,471	154,107	394,083
South East	7,349,836	39,206	13	87,413	160,208	286,840
Wallum	572,490	24,620	3,595	101,175	10,429	139,819
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	656,358	4,965	573,138	932,038	2,166,499
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	69,997	2,350	90,588	65,405	228,341

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.